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Name Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
Position Professor
Institutional Affiliation University of California, Santa Barbara
Latitude 34.068921
Longitude -119.847885
Research Interests

Late Antiquity, Roman religion, conversion, and ancient philosophy

Websites http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/elizabeth-depalma-digeser/; http://ucsb.academia.edu/BethDigeser
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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