| Publications | "PublicationsBooks 
 A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists and the Great Persecution. 
Cornell UniversityPress, 2012. 
The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome 
. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,2000. 
Paperback, released 2012. 
The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the Early Islamic World 
, ed. with Justin Stephens, R. M. Frakes. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010. 
 Religious Identity in Late Antiquity 
, R. M. Frakes and Elizabeth Digeser, edd. Toronto: Edgar Kent, 2006. 
The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome 
. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,2000. 
Digeser, 2Articles“Exegesis and Identity among Platonist Hellenes and Christians,” in 
 Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions: Scriptural Hermeneutics and Epistemology 
, Torrance Kirby, ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013), 45-56.“Hellenes, Barbarians, and Christians: Religion and Identity Politics in Diocletian’s Rome,” inR. Mathisen and D. Shanzer, edd. 
Shifting Frontiers VI 
(Surrey: Ashgate, 2011), 121-132.“Philosophy in the Long Third Century: From the Antonines to the Tetrarchy.” For 
TheCambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity 
, Lloyd Gerson, ed. (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2011).“Philosophy in a Christian Empire: From the Great Persecution to Theodosius I.” For 
TheCambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity 
, Lloyd Gerson, ed. (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2011).“Diverging Traditions: From the Death of Theodosius I through the Isaurian Dynasty.” For 
TheCambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity 
, Lloyd Gerson, ed. (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2011).“Origen on the 
 Limes 
: Rhetoric and the Polarization of Identity in the Late Third Century.” In 
The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the Early Islamic World 
, ed. 
idem 
with Justin Stephens, R. M. Frakes (London: I. B. Tauris,2010).“Methodius and Porphyry.” 
Studia Patristica 
46 (2010), 21-26.“The Power of Religious Rituals: A Philosophical Quarrel on the Eve of the Great Persecution,”in N. Lenski and A. Cain, edd., 
The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity 
(Shifting Frontiers inLate Antiquity, VII) (Ashgate, 2010), 81-92.“Lactantius, Eusebius, and Arnobius: Evidence for the Causes of the Great Persecution.” 
Studia Patristica 
39 (2006): 33-46.“Christian or Hellene? The Great Persecution and the Problem of Christian Identity,” in R. M.Frakes and Elizabeth Digeser, 
 Religious Identity in Late Antiquity 
(Toronto: Edgar Kent,2006), 36-57.“Religion, Law and the Roman Polity: The Era of the Great Persecution,” in Clifford Ando andJörg Rüpke, edd., 
 Law and Religion in Classical and Christian Rome 
(Stuttgart: FranzSteiner Verlag, 2006), 68-84.“An Oracle of Apollo at Daphne and the Great Persecution,” 
Classical Philology 
99 (2004): 57-77.“Citizenship and the Roman 
 Res publica 
: Cicero and a Christian Corollary,” 
Critical Review of  International Social and Political Philosophy 
6 (2003): 5-21.“Porphyry, Julian, or Hierokles? The Anonymous Hellene in Makarios Magnes’ 
 Apokritikos 
,” 
 Journal of Theological Studies 
n. s. 53 (2002): 466-502.“Porphyry, Lactantius, and the Paths to God,” 
Studia Patristica 
34 (2001): 521-528.“Casinensis 595, Parisinus lat. 1664, Palatino-Vaticanus 161 and the 
 Divine Institutes 
’ SecondEdition,” 
 Hermes: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie 
127 (1999): 75-98.“Lactantius, Porphyry, and the Debate over Religious Toleration,” 
 Journal of Roman Studies 
88(1998): 129-46.“Lactantius and the ‘Edict of Milan’: Does it Determine his Venue?” 
Studia Patristica: Papers Presented to the Twelfth International Conference on Patristic Studies 
31 (1997): 287-95. 
Digeser, 3“Lactantius and Constantine’s Letter to Arles: Dating the 
 Divine Institutes 
,” 
 Journal of EarlyChristian Studies 
2 (1994): 33-52.Reviews Noel Lenski, ed., 
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine 
(Cambridge, 2005) for 
The Classical Bulletin 
84.1 (2009): 148-150.John T. Fitzgerald, Thomas H. Olbricht, and L. Michael White, edd., 
 Early Christianity and Classical Culture. Comparative Studies in Honor of Abraham J. Malherbe 
(Leiden: Brill,2003), for the 
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 
(2007.04.71)(http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-04-71.html) 
. 
Lactantius, 
 Divine Institutes 
, Anthony Bowen and Peter Garnsey, edd. (Liverpool: LiverpoolUniversity Press, 2003), for the 
 Journal of Theological Studies 
57 (2006): 713-15.Charles Matson Odall, 
Constantine and the Christian Empire 
(Routledge, 2004), for 
 Journal of  Early Christian Studies 
13 (2005): 527-528.M. R. Salzman, 
The Making of a Christian Aristocracy 
(Harvard, 2002) for 
 Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 
58 (2004): 183-85.H. Gregory Snyder, 
Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World. Philosophers, Jews and Christians 
(Routledge, 2000), for 
 Journal of Religious History 
27 (2003): 86-88.Birgir A. Pearson, 
The Emergence of the Christian Religion: Essays on Early Christianity 
,(Trinity, 1997) for 
 Journal of Early Christian Studies 
7 (1999): 306-7.ForthcomingReview of Jeremy Schott, 
Christianity, Empire and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity 
 (Philadelphia, 2008), 
 History of Religions 
51 (2012): In press.“Persecution and the Art of Reading,” for a collection of papers on Lactantius, published by 
Studia Patristica 
and edited by Oliver Nicholson. Submitted.“The Edict of Serdica: Why Has It Been Ignored?” For 
The Edict of Serdica (311): Concepts and  Realizations of the Idea of Religious Toleration 
. V. Vachkova and D. Dimitrov, edd.Submitted.“The Usefulness of Borderlands Concepts in Ancient History: The Case of Origen as Monster.”For John W. I. Lee and Michael North, edd., 
 European and American Borderlands: An Innovative Approach 
. University of Nebraska Press. Submitted.“The Education of Constantine (Formazione di Costantino).” For the published proceedings of the conference, 
Costantino il Grande: Alle Radici dell’Europa 
sponsored by the PontificioComitato di Scienze Storiche. Submitted.Work in Progress“Virgin Goddesses and the Virgin Mary: The Theological Implications of Shared ReligiousSpace,” for Philip Rousseau and Wendy Mayer, edd., 
Change in the Late Roman City: Identities, Buildings and Beliefs 
. CUA Press. For submission in late December. 
 Persecution, Toleration or Appropriation? The Reception of Frontier Theologies within the Cityof Rome 
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