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In this talk, Andrew Jacobs consider how and why critical theory comes to play a role in historical studies of early Christianity (and ancient religion more generally). Taking his own career—from graduate school to his current research—as a point of departure, Jacobs explores the ethics and politics of the historical study of religions.
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Andrew Jacobs is Professor of Religion and Mary W. and J. Stanley Johnson Chair of Humanities at Scripps College in Claremont, California. His research focuses on the cultural formation of Christianity in late antiquity with particular attention to identity and difference, often focused on Jewish-Christian relations. Jacobs has published Remains of the Jews: Holy Land and Empire in Late Antiquity(Stanford, 2003)andChrist Circumcised: A Study in Early Christian History and Difference(U Penn, 2012). His newest book, Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity, is forthcoming this summer from University of California Press.