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NameJanet Spittler
PositionAssociate Professor
AffiliationUniversity of Virginia
Latitude38.0335529
Longitude-78.5101659
Research Interests

New Testament and Early Christianity; apocryphal Christian literature; paradoxography and miraculous stuff

Websiteshttp://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/jes9cu
Publications

Selected Publications

Animals in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: Early Christianity’s Wild Kingdom. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008.

“µ???????? ???? ????? ??????? ?? ????µ???; Metalepsis in the Apocryphal Acts of Andrew.” In Metalepsis in Ancient Cultures. Ed. by Peter v. Möllendorff and Ute Eisen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013.

“Wild Kingdom: Animals in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles.” In Fictional Intersections: The Ancient Novel and the Early Christian and Jewish Narrative. (Proceedings of ICAN 2008) Ed. by Marília Pinheiro. Groningen: Barkhuis, 2013.

“Christianity at the Edges: Representations of the Ends of the Earth in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles.” In The Rise and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries CE. Edited by Clare Rothschild and Jens Schroeter. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.

"The Anthropology of the Acts of Thomas.” In Christian Body, Christian Self. Ed. by Clare Rothschild and Trevor Thompson. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. 203–16.

“Animal Resurrection in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and Patristic Authors.” In Gelitten, Gestorben, Auferstanden. Ed. by Tobias Nicklas, Andreas Merkt and Joseph Verheyden. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. 343–66

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