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Books
Law and Order: Judicial Discourse in Early Christian Formation. Currently in revision for University of
Pennsylvania Press.
Syriac Encounters: Papers from the Sixth North American Syriac Symposium, Duke University, 26-29 June
2011. Co-edited with Kyle Smith and Emanuel Fiano. Louven, Paris and Walpole, MA: Peeters, 2014. In
press.
The Early Church and State. In Ad Fontes. Editor. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2016.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Spelling the Boundaries of Orthodoxy: Simon Magus in the Didascalia Apostolorum and its literary
interlocutors.” Zeitschrift für Antike und Christentum. Forthcoming.
“The Death of Strangers in the City of God: Antioch's Pandektai and Ancient Christian Community”
Harvard Theological Review. Accepted, pending revision.
“Entertaining the Trinity Unawares: Genesis 18 and the Trinitarian Imagination in Late Antiquity.” The
Journal of Ecclesiastical History (accepted for publication; forthcoming)
• Recipient of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History’s 2013 Eusebius Prize.
“’Hair!’ Remnants of Ascetic Exegesis in Augustine of Hippo’s De Opere Monachorum.” Journal of Early
Christian Studies JECS 22.1 (Spring 2014).
“Ambrose’s Jews: The Rhetorical Construction of Jews and Heretics in Ambrose of Milan’s Expositio
evangelii secundum Lucam.” Church History 80.4 (December 2011), 749-72.
M.E. DOERFLER, C.V. 3/10
“The Infant, the Monk and the Martyr: The Death of Children in Eastern Patristic Thought.” Le Muséon
124 (3-4), December 2011.
• Recipient of the 2012 North American Patristic Society Best First Article Award.
Chapters & Invited Contributions
“Wayward mothers, saintly children? Late ancient reading strategies in pursuit of the absent parent.” In
Growing up Motherless in Antiquity. Sabine Hübner and David Ratzan, eds. In process.
“Ambrose’s Reception of Philo of Alexandria.” In The Reception of Philo of Alexandria. David Lincicum,
ed. Oxford University Press. In process.
“The Understanding and Regulation of Diversity within Religious Communities.” In A Cultural History of
Religion in the West in Antiquity. Susan Graham, ed. Bloomsbury, 2017. Submitted.
“Glimpses from the Margins: Re-telling late ancient history at the edges of the law.” In Beyond Authority:
Tradition and Transmission in Late Antiquity. Mark Letteny and AJ Levine, eds. Princeton University
Press. Submitted.
“Social Justice in Early Christianity.” In The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law. Pamela Barmash, ed.
Oxford University Press. Submitted.
“The Sense of an Ending: Childhood Death and Parental Benefit in Late Ancient Rhetoric.” In Studia
Patristica: Papers presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in
Oxford 2015, eds. Heidi Marx-Wolf, Jared Sercord, and Christoph Markschies. Forthcoming.
“Breaking and Entering: Holy Women at the Center of Late Ancient Households.” Melania: Early
Christianity through the Life of One Family, eds. Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder. University
of California Press, 2016.
""Socializing Evagrius: The Case of Philoxenus of Mabbug's Letter to Patricius."" In Syriac Encounters.
Papers presented at the Sixth North American Syriac Symposium Held at Duke University, 26-29 June
2011. eds. Maria Doerfler, Emanuel Fiano and Kyle R. Smith. Leuven: Peeters, 2014.
“Coming apart at the Seams: Crossdressing, masculinity, and the social body in late antiquity.” Dressing
Judeans and Christians in Antiquity, eds. Alicia Batten, Carly Daniel-Hughes, and Kristi Upson-Saia.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014.
""Sexual Renunciation in Late Antiquity."" In the Blackwell Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities,
ed. Thomas K. Hubbard. Oxford: Blackwell, 2013.
”Keeping it in the Family: The law and the Law in Ambrose of Milan’s Letters.” In Studia Patristica:
Papers presented at the Sixteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2011, vols.
55-62, ed. Markus Vinzent. Leuven: Peeters, 2013.
Book Reviews
Gelehrte Frauen des frühen Christentums: Zwölf Porträts. By Katharie Greschat. Standorte in Antike und
Christentum, vol. 6; Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2015. Submitted.
M.E. DOERFLER, C.V. 4/10
“An Immodest Proposal: Kate Wilkinson’s Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity.” The Marginalia
Review of Books, 2015.
Violence in Ancient Christianity. Victims and Perpetrators. By Albert C. Geljon and Riemer Roukema
(eds.). Leiden: Brill, 2014. In Theologische Literaturzeitung, 2016.
Dialoguing in Late Antiquity. By Averil Cameron. Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C.,
distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA: 2014. In JECS (forthcoming).
Two Early Lives of Severos, Patriarch of Antioch. Translated with an introduction and notes by Sebastian
Brock and Brian Fitzgerald. Translated Texts for Historians 59. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press,
2013. In Disgressus (forthcoming).
Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History. By Theresa Berger. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. In
Theology & Sexuality 20.1 (2014).
The first Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity. By Robert Louis Wilken. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2012. In Commonweal (October 26, 2012), 35-6.
Nouvelles intrigues pseudo-clémentines/Plots in the Pseudo-Clementine Romance: Actes du deuxième
colloque international sur la littérature apocryphe chrétienne, Lausanne – Genève, 30 aoûte – 2 septembre
2006. Edited by Frédéric Amsler, Albert Frey, Charlotte Touati, and Renée Girardet. (Publications de
l’Institut Romand des Sciences Bibliques, 6.) Prahins: Éditions du Zèbre, 2008. In JTS (62.1, March 2011).
The Didascalia Apostolorum: An English Version with Introduction and Annotation. By Alistair StewartSykes.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. In JTS (61.2, October 2010).
Miscellania
St. Augustine: Confessions. Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Advisor to the publisher
concerning selection of essay reprints to be included in this volume.
“Imperial Edicts” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (De Gruyter, 2014).
“Didascalia,” “Romanos,” and “Pius J. Zingerle” in George Kiraz, ed., Encyclopedic Dictionary of the
Syriac Heritage (Gorgias Press, 2010).
“The Value of a Ph.D.: Labors of Choice” in Duke University Graduate School Newsletter. No pages.
[Cited: 1 December, 2010]. Online: http://gradschool.duke.edu/gsa/newsletter/
Under Review
“Mourning Isaac: The Death of Children and the Late Ancient Exegetical Imagination.”
“Christ and the Courts of Rome: The Pericope Adulterae in Patristic Judicial Thought.”
“A Gaul in the Desert: Egyptian Texts and Readers in the Late Ancient Ascetic Imagination.”
Published Translations
M.E. DOERFLER, C.V. 5/10
Jacob of Sarug, Memre 189: “On Children who Have Passed Away” in George Kiraz and Sebastian Brock,
eds., The Homilies of Jacob of Sarug in English (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press; forthcoming). (SyriacEnglish)"
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