Christine C.

Shepardson
University of Tennessee, Department of Religious Studies, 501 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996 cshepard@utk.edu (865) 974-2181

Education
Ph.D. in Early Christianity, Duke University, Graduate Program in Religion, 2003 Graduate Certificate, Duke University, Program in Womens Studies, 1998 M.T.S., summa cum laude, Boston University School of Theology, 1996 B.A., Swarthmore College, 1994

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008 Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2008 SARIF Foreign Travel Award, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2007 Professional Development Award, University of Tennessee, 2006 Humanities Initiative and Marco grant to fund Faculty Research Seminar, University of Tennessee, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08 University of Tennessee nominee for NEH Summer Stipend, 2005, 2007 Marco travel grant to the Newberry Library, UTK, 2005, 2006 Lindsay Young Library Endowment grant to purchase library resources, 2005. SARIF Foreign Travel Award, University of Tennessee, 2003. Gerst Dissertation Fellowship, The Gerst Program in Political, Economic, and Humanistic Studies, Duke University, 2002-03. Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2001-02 Joseph A. Callaway Prize for best student paper in biblical archaeology, American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), 1998 Graduate Fellowship, Duke University, 1996-2000 Lucinda Bidwell Beebe Fellowship, Boston University School of Theology, 1996, 1997 American Bible Society Award, Boston University School of Theology, 1996 Merit Scholarship, Boston University School of Theology, 1994-1996

Books: Published and Forthcoming

Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrems Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria, (CUA, Patristic Monographs Series, forthcoming 2008).

Articles: Published and Forthcoming

Burying Babylas: Meletius and the Christianization of Antioch. In Studia Patristica, v. 37, XV International Conference on Patristic Studies (Peeters: Louvain), forthcoming. Syria, Syriac, Syrian: Negotiating East and West in Late Antiquity, in The Blackwell Companion to Late Antiquity (Blackwell, forthcoming 2008). Paschal Politics: Deploying the Temples Destruction against Fourth-Century Judaizers, Vigiliae Christianae 62.2 (2008), 233-260.

Defining the Boundaries of Orthodoxy: Eunomius in the Anti-Jewish Polemic of his Cappadocian Opponents, Church History 76.4 (2007): 699-723. Controlling Contested Places: John Chrysostoms Adversus Iudaeos Homilies and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy, Journal of Early Christian Studies, 15.4 (2007): 483-516. Create-A-Jesus: Scholarship and the Search for the Historical Jesus, in Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction (Society of Biblical Literature, 2005). Source Criticism and Eye-Witness Accounts, in Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction (Society of Biblical Literature, 2005). Exchanging Reed for Reed: Mapping Contemporary Heretics onto Biblical Jews in Ephrems Hymns on Faith, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 5.1 (2002). Anti-Jewish Rhetoric and Intra-Christian Conflict in the Sermons of Ephrem Syrus. In Studia Patristica. Vol. XXXV, XIII International Conference on Patristic Studies, (Peeters: Louvain, 2001), 502-507. Paula Fredriksen and Tina Shepardson, Embodiment and Redemption: The Human Condition in Ancient Christianity, in The Human Condition: A Theory and CaseStudy of the Comparison of Religious Ideas, ed. Robert Cummings Neville (Albany,NY: SUNY, 2001), 133-155. Stones and Stories: Reconstructing the Christianization of the Golan. Biblisches Forum Summer 1999. Reprinted in Biblisches Forum: Texte und Steine, eds. Andreas Leinhupl-Wilke, Stefan Lcking, and Jesaja Michael Wiegard (Mnster: Biblisches Forum, 2000), 98-116. Christian Division in Ancient Edessa: Ephrem the Syrians Carmina Nisibena XXVIIXXVIII. Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society 12.1 (1999): 29-41. St. Michael the Archangel: An Ancient Coptic Homily. Coptic Church Review 19.3 (1998): 66-74.

Works Under Review

"Rewriting Julian's Legacy: John Chrysostom's De S. Babyla and Libanius's Oration 24," under review, July 2008.

Works In Progress
Controlling Contested Places: Fourth-Century Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy, book manuscript in progress. "The Rhetoric of Civic Chaos: Geographical and Social Inversion in John Chrysostom's De Statuis," in progress. "Interpreting the Repentance of the Ninevites in Late Antique Mesopotamia," in progress. Simply Orthodox: Exploiting Antiochs Urban/Rural Divide, in progress.

Book Reviews
Review of Isabella Sandwell, Religious Identity in Late Antiquity: Greeks, Jews, and Christians in Antioch, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, 77.3 (2008): 706-708. Review of Christianization and Communication in Late Antiquity: John Chrysostom and his Congregation in Antioch, by Jaclyn Maxwell. Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, 76.4 (2007): 823-824 2

Review of Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination, by Susan Ashbrook Harvey. Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 76.2 (2007): 403-405. Review of The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq, by Joel Walker. Religious Studies Review 32.2 (2007): 78-79. Review of Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions, edited by Raanan Boustan and Annette Yoshiko Reed. Ancient History Bulletin 20 (2006). Review of Syrische Kirchenvter, edited by Wassilios Klein. Religious Studies Review, 32.2 (2006): 126. Review of Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East, by Derek Krueger. The Medieval Review, September 2005. Review of Evidence of Greek Philosophical Concepts in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian, by Ute Possekel. Religious Studies Review 28.2 (April 2002): 172-173. Review of Studien zur Frhgeschichte der Jesus-Bewegung, by Paul Hoffman. Religious Studies Review 23.2 (April, 1997): 78. Review of This Jesus: Martyr, Lord, Messiah, by Markus Bockmuehl. Religious Studies Review 23.2 (April, 1997): 78. Review of Jesus under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus, edited by Michael J. Wilkens and J. P. Moreland, and Jesus of Nazareth, Lord and Christ: Essays on the Historical Jesus and New Testament Christology, edited by Joel B. Green and Max Turner. Religious Studies Review 23.2 (April, 1997): 77-78. Review of Jesus the Jew: The Pharisaic Tradition in John, by Alan Watson. Religious Studies Review 23.1 (January, 1997): 70. Review of Jesus the Jewish Theologian, by Brad H. Young. Religious Studies Review 23.1 (January, 1997): 70.

Conference Presentations (National and International)

From Mountaintop to Marketplace: The Topography of Authority in Fourth-Century Antioch, ASCH, New York, upcoming January 2009. "Simply Orthodox: Exploiting the Urban/Rural Divide in Fourth-Century Antioch," SBL, Boston, upcoming November 2008. "Interpreting the Repentance of the Ninevites in Late Antique Mesopotamia," SBL, Boston, upcoming November 2008. Invited response to Paula Fredriksens book, Augustine and the Jews, SBL, November 2007. Reading Regional Realities: Fourth-century Judaizers in Antioch and Edessa SBL, San Diego, CA, November 2007. Burying Babylas: Meletius of Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Christianization, XV International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, August 2007. Competing for Congregants: John Chrysostom and the Politics of Christian and Jewish Space, Society of Biblical Literature, Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group, Washington, D. C., November 2006. John Chrysostom and the Politics of Religious Space in Fourth-Century Antioch. North American Patristics Society, Chicago, May 2006. Invited response to Astrological Knowledge and Apostolic Competition: The Pseudo Clementine Recognitions in the Context of Fourth-Century Syria by Nicole Kelley. Society of Biblical Literature, Christian Apocrypha section, Philadelphia, November 2005. 3

Paschal Politics: The Temples Destruction Deployed by Fourth-Century Christians. North American Patristics Society, Chicago, May 2005. "Interpret with Care: Jews, Arians, "Jews," and "Arians" in Fourth-century Syria." Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, November 2003. "'The Stench of the Stinking Jews': Reconnecting Ephrem's Rhetoric with Fourth-century Syrian Jews." XIII International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, August 2003. "The Importance of Being Israel: Contextualizing Ephrem the Syrian's Interpretation of Scripture." Society of Biblical Literature, Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity Section, Toronto, November 2002. "The Politics of History: Scriptural History and Community Definition in Fourth-century Syria." Society of Biblical Literature, Ideological Criticism Section, Toronto, November 2002. "Defending Nicea: Ephrem in the Context of Empire." North American Patristics Society, Chicago, May 2002. In the Service of Orthodoxy: Anti-Jewish Language and Intra-Christian Conflict in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian. Society of Biblical Literature, poster session, Denver, November 2001. Exchanging Reed for Reed: Mapping Contemporary Heretics onto Biblical Jews in Ephrems Hymns on Faith. North American Patristic Society, Chicago, 2001. Blood, Bread, and the Bible: Scripture and Authority in Ephrems Hymns on Unleavened Bread. American Academy of Religion, History of Christianity session, Nashville, 2000. Whoring with the Calf: Exodus 32 and Ephrems anti-Jewish Rhetoric. North American Patristic Society, Chicago, 2000. Contending with Christian Heresy: Reexamining the Anti-Jewish Rhetoric of Ephrem the Syrian. Society of Biblical Literature, Early Jewish/Christian Relations session, Boston, 1999. Anti-Jewish Rhetoric and Intra-Christian Conflict in the Sermons of Ephrem Syrus. XII International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, August 1999. Claiming Christianity: Early Syriac Christianity and the Anti-Manichaean Rhetoric of Ephrems Prose Refutations. Syriac Symposium III, Notre Dame University, 1999. Drawing the Line with Gentiles: Eating Practices and Christian Self-Definition in the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions. American Academy of Religion, southeastern regional meeting, Durham, NC, 1999. Stones and Stories: Reconstructing the Christianization of the Golan. Society of Biblical Literature, Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Interaction in Late Antique Syria session, Orlando, 1998. Constraining a Gendered Ideal: Basil of Ancyras de vera virginitatis integritate and the Body of the True Female Virgin. North American Patristic Society, Chicago, 1998. Stones and Stories: Reconstructing the Christianization of the Golan. American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), southeastern regional meeting, Knoxville, TN, 1998.

Professional and University Lectures

Rewriting Julians Legacy: Dating Chrysostoms De S. Babyla in light of Libaniuss Oration 24. Presented to the faculty seminar, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, September 2007. Godless Cannibals? Roman Christians on Trial. Lecture for Latin Day 2006, sponsored by the Department of Classics at UT, November 2006. Defending Nicacea: Jews and Arians with Ephrems Greek Neighbors. Presented to the faculty seminar, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, October 2006. John Chrysostom and the Politics of Religious Space in Fourth-Century Antioch. Presented to the faculty seminar, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, March 6, 2006. Prostitute, Heretic, Empress, and Saint: Theodora and Sixth-Century Christian Politics. Lecture for Latin Day 2005, sponsored by the Department of Classics at UT, November 2005. Interpret with Care: Jews, Arians, Jews, and Arians in Fourth-century Syria. Lecture for the Humanities Faculty lecture series at U.T. November 3, 2004. Jews, Christians, Heretics: Fourth-century Politics and the Making of Christian Orthodoxy. Public inaugural lecture. October 21, 2004. Fourth-Century Syriac Christianity (Aphrahat and Ephrem) and Judaism in Mesopotamia. Invited lecture at Duke University, part of the NEH-funded summer seminar series entitled Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity. July 7, 2004. Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Interaction in Northern Palestine and Southern Syria. Invited lecture at Duke University, part of the NEH-funded summer seminar series entitled Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity. June 29, 2004. But I called it First: Defining Christianity and Empire in Fourth-century Syria. Public lecture sponsored by the U.T. Classics Club. April 1, 2004. Jesus wasnt a Southern Baptist: A Brief Introduction to the History of Christianity. Invited lecture at the University of Tennessees Faculty Club. October 10, 2003.

Public Service Lectures

Judaism and Early Chrisitanity, Fall 2007 lecture at Heska Amuna synagogue Jesus and Judaism, Fall 2007 lecture at Heska Amuna synagogue Politics and the History of early Christianity, Fall 2007 lecture at ORICL, Oak Ridge Women and Gender in Early Christianity, Fall 2007 lecture at Farragut Lutheran Church. More than Meets the Eye: Disagreements and Diversity in Early Christianity, Lecture for Seniors for Creative Learning, OConnor Senior Center, Knoxville. March 2007. Early Christianity as a Greco-Roman Religion, Lecture at Oak Ridge Methodist Church. February 2007. When Jesus was Jewish: The Important Legacy of Early Jewish/Christian Relations. Federated Church of Marlborough, NH. December 2006. More than Meets the Eye: Disagreements and Diversity in Early Christianity, Greek Orthodox Church, Knoxville. December 2006. More than Meets the Eye: Disagreements and Diversity in Early Christianity.Lecture at Second Presbyterian Church, Knoxville. November 2006.

More than Meets the Eye: Disagreements and Diversity in Early Christianity. Lecture at Tennessee Valley Unitarian-Universalist Church, Knoxville. November 2006. Claiming Gods Covenant: Early Christian Leaders and their Anti-Jewish Language. Lecture for Seniors for Creative Learning, OConnor Senior Center, Knoxville. September 2006. Constructing Christian Orthodoxy: Fourth-Century Politics and Early Christian History. Lecture for Seniors for Creative Learning, OConnor Senior Center, Knoxville. February 2006. Constructing Christian Orthodoxy: Fourth-Century Politics and Early Christian History. Lecture at First Presbyterian Church, Knoxville. January 2006. Orthodoxy on the Eastern Edge: The Theology, Politics, and Lasting Effects of the Early Monophysite Controversy. Lecture at Oak Ridge Methodist Church. December 2005. Local Variety and Imperial Orthodoxy in Early Christianity. Lecture at Oak Ridge Methodist Church. April 2005. Early Christians Debate the Role of the Jewish Law. Lecture at St. Johns Episcopal Church. April 2005. The Making of Christian Orthodoxy. Lecture for Knoxvilles Education for Ministry group. March 31, 2005. Claiming Gods Covenant: Early Christian Leaders and their Anti-Jewish Language. Lecture for Ink and Blood: Dead Sea Scrolls to the English Bible public lecture series in Knoxville. March 29, 2005 The Rhetoric of Religious Violence: Christian Anti-Jewish Language and Holy Week. Lecture for the Knoxville Ministry Association. March 17, 2005. More than Meets the Eye: Disagreements and Diversity in Early Christianity. Lecture for Ink and Blood: Dead Sea Scrolls to the English Bible public lecture series in Knoxville. March 1, 2005. The Politics of Claiming Christianity. Lecture at the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Knoxville. February 20, 2005. Constructing Christian Orthodoxy: Fourth-Century Politics and Early Christian History. Lecture for Ink and Blood: Dead Sea Scrolls to the English Bible public lecture series in Knoxville. February 15, 2005. Early Christian anti-Jewish Language. Lecture at Sequoia Hills Presbyterian Church. December 5, 2004. Early Christian Diversity: Texts and their Translations. Lecture at St. Johns Episcopal Church. November 14, 2004. Where did the New Testament Come From? Lecture at Sequoia Hills Presbyterian Church. April 25, 2004. Majority Rules: Fourth-Century Emperors and the Creation of Christian Orthodoxy. Lecture at Sequoia Hills Presbyterian Church. October 12, 2003.

Professional Service
Program Committee member, American Society of Church History, 2008-09 Article review for journals (e.g., JECS) Organized panel session for national SBL conference, 2007 Session moderator: NAPS 2005, SBL 2005, NAPS 2006, SBL 2006 Early Jewish Christian Relations Session (SBL), Steering Committee member, 2005-present. 6

Faculty Research Seminar: The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, Project Director and Seminar Chair: This seminar brings together faculty and graduate students from across the university who work on the topic of the seminar. It consists of eleven meetings per school year, including seminars on recent scholarship in the field, presentations by the three core faculty (Christine Shepardson, Religious Studies; Michael Kulikowski, History; Thomas Heffernan, English), and a presentation by an outside scholar in the field each semester. As director, I am responsible for writing the annual internal grant, as well as the running of the seminar. Co-funded by the Humanities Initiative (UTK) and MARCO (UTK). 2005-present. Studies in the History of the Christian Tradition monograph series Board of Editors, member, 2005-present Wabash Teaching and Mentoring Grant, Duke University, Department of Religion Grant Administrator: Planned and organized seminars funded by this grant in an effort to
help graduate students in religious studies to be better prepared for their profession and to be more effective teachers and mentors. 2000-2001.

Religion and Theory Reading Group, Duke University (with U.N.C.-Chapel Hill) Project Coordinator, 1997-2003.

Professional Memberships
American Academy of Religion Society of Biblical Literature North American Patristic Society American Society of Church History Association for Women Faculty (UTK)

Work with Professional Journals

Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, Senior Assistant to the Editors
Premier journal in the history of Christianity, receiving nearly one hundred articles every year. Worked closely with senior faculty editors to plan and discuss future issues; processed incoming articles and advertisements; supervised other assistants to the editors; acted as liaison between the journals office and the senior editors as well as between the office and the press. 2000-2001.

Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, Assistant to the Editors

Responsible for soliciting and processing the journals book reviews. The journal receives approximately seven hundred incoming books and three hundred book reviews each year. 1999-2000.

College and University Service Social Sciences Divisional Committee, chair. University of Tennessee, Fall 2008-present. General Education subcommittee on Cultures and Civilizations, 2007-present. Commission for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People, U.T., 2007-2008. Provosts Junior Faculty Fellows, 2007-present. Association of Women Faculty at U.T., chair, 2006-2007. Arts and Sciences College Curriculum Committee, member, 2006-present. Association of Women Faculty at U.T., board member, 2005-2006. Faculty Speakers Bureau, member. University of Tennessee, 2005-present. Social Sciences Divisional Committee, member. University of Tennessee, Fall 2005. Humanities Divisional Committee, member. University of Tennessee, 2004-2006. 7

Undergraduate committee, co-chair. Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, 2004-present. MARCO, steering committee, 2004-present. Judaic Studies Committee (UTK) member, 2004-present. MARCO Medieval and Renaissance Studies (UTK), advisory board, 2003-present. Department Representative, Academic Advising Studio, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2003-2004., Fall 2005

Professional Travel
Funded research in Antakya, Turkey, May 2008 Funded research in Rome, Italy, March 2008 Funded research in Antakya, Turkey, May 2006 Funded Newberry Library visit, Chicago, June 2005, May 2006

Reading Languages
Syriac, Greek, Hebrew (biblical and rabbinic), Aramaic, Latin, Coptic, French, German

Teaching Experience
Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Spring 2004-present. Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, August 2003-present. Gerst Instructor: "The Rhetoric of Religious Conflict and the History of Christian AntiJudaism," Duke University, Spring 2003. Visiting Lecturer: "The New Testament and the Origins of Christianity," Religion 204, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Fall 2002. Instructor: The New Testament and the Origins of Christianity, Religion 102, Duke University, Spring 2000. Instructor: Anti-Judaism: Jews in the Christian Imagination, Religion 20.3, Duke University, Spring 1999. Visiting Lecturer: The New Testament and the Origins of Christianity, Religion 204.1 and 204.2, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Spring 1999. Teaching Assistant: Modern European Christianity, Church History 14, Duke Divinity School, Spring 1998. Teaching Assistant: Early and Medieval Christianity, Church History 13, Duke Divinity School, Fall 1997.