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Name Heidi Wendt
Position Assistant Professor of Religions, Greco-Roman World, a joint appointment with the Department of History and Classical Studies
Institutional Affiliation McGill University
Latitude 45.505070
Longitude -73.577205
Research Interests

Religious developments of the Roman imperial period, with a focus on situating Jewish/Judean and Christian actors and phenomena in their Greco-Roman milieu.

Websites https://www.mcgill.ca/classics/faculty/heidi-wendt; https://www.mcgill.ca/religiousstudies/heidi-wendt
Publications

At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).

“From the Herodians to Hadrian: The Shifting Status of Judean Religion in Post-Flavian Rome.” Forum 6(2017): 139–63.

“Galatians 3:1 as an Allusion to Textual Prophecy.” Journal of Biblical Literature 135 (2016): 369–89.

“Ea Superstitione: Christian Martyrdom and the Religion of Freelance Experts.” Journal of Roman Studies 105 (2015): 183–202.

“Iudaica Romana: A Rereading of Evidence for Judean Expulsions from Rome.” Journal of Ancient Judaism 6 (2015): 97–123.

“Entrusted with the Oracles of God: The Fate of the Judean Writings in Flavian Rome.” Pages 101–09 in A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer, ed. Shira Lander et al. Brown Judaic Studies 358. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015.

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