| 1.1 | Late Antiquity Lost at the Start of the Twenty‐First Century |
| 2.1 | Christianity before “The Bible” |
| 3.1 | Studying Memory, or the Past within the Past |
| 4.1 | The People of “Iran” |
| 5.1 | A Rich Legacy of Human Figures in Jewish Art |
| 6.1 | The Many Lives of Rome’s Colosseum |
| 7.1 | The Emperor’s Residence in Constantinople |
| 8.1 | Silver Gifts and the Roman Emperor on the Crimean Peninsula |
| 9.1 | Shenoute’s Monastery in Egypt |
| 10.1 | The Grain Industry, Free Bread, and the Bakers at Ostia |
| 11.1 | The “Third Gender” |
| 12.1 | The Mash‐Up Poem |
| 13.1 | Literature, History, and Material Culture in Armenia, Crossroads of Empires |
| 14.1 | Jerusalem and the Lure of the “Holy Cross” |
| 1.1 | Late Antiquity Found at the Start of the Twenty‐First Century |
| 2.1 | Are There Forgeries in Christian Scripture? |
| 3.1 | Can We Ever Really Know What Happened? |
| 4.1 | Was There a Third‐Century Crisis in Roman History? |
| 5.1 | When Did Christianity Split from Judaism? |
| 6.1 | Catastrophe or Continuity? Or a False Choice? |
| 7.1 | Being Christian in the Sasanian Zoroastrian State: A Case of “Persecution”? |
| 8.1 | Faith, Texts, Archaeology, and Today: The Example of St. Peter’s Basilica |
| 9.1 | Who Were the “Pagans,” and What Is the Origin of This Word? |
| 10.1 | A Marble Burial Box with a Heroic Tale: Signs of a “Middle Class”? |
| 11.1 | Can Texts About Women Help Us Recover the Voices of Real Women? |
| 12.1 | Why Should Historians Read Tales of Angels and Demons? |
| 13.1 | End‐Time Thinking and the Invention of the “a.d.” Calendar |
| 14.1 | Muhammad’s House and the Development of Early Mosque Architecture |
| 1.1 | “Are We Rome?” Apocalyptic Thinking, Then and Now |
| 2.1 | What Role Did Martyrdom Play in the Early Church? |
| 3.1 | Emperor Galerius’ Edict of Toleration, 311 CE |
| 4.1 | Stigmas, Stereotypes, and the Uglier Side of Imperialism |
| 5.1 | Are All Christian References to Jews “Rhetorical”? |
| 6.1 | Emperor Constantine in Jerusalem |
| 7.1 | Gladiators, Chariot Races, and the Laws of the Christian Emperor Constantine |
| 8.1 | Justinian’s Nea Church and the Architectural Audacity of Roman Emperors |
| 9.1 | Theological Creeds as Party Platforms |
| 10.1 | Cemetery Workers and a Guild Recruited for Mob Violence |
| 11.1 | Wealth, Patronage, and the Voice of Influential Women |
| 12.1 | The Value of Learning a Second Language in Changing Times |
| 13.1 | The Arab Client Kings of Sixth‐Century Persia and Rome |
| 14.1 | What Effect Did the Rise of Islam Have on Daily Life in the Christian Roman Empire? |
| 1.1 | Writing History vs. Writing Church History |
| 2.1 | The “Lost” Syriac Chronicle of Theophilus of Edessa |
| 3.1 | Was There an Ancient Word for Our Idea of “Religion”? |
| 4.1 | A Cameo Glorifying the Sasanian King |
| 5.1 | Interpreting the Images on the Parabiago Plate |
| 6.1 | Descriptions of the City of Constantinople |
| 7.1 | The Talmud as Evidence for the History of the Jewish Community |
| 8.1 | Tableware and Kitchenware: From Artifact to Museum Exhibits and Private Collections |
| 9.1 | Buried Coptic Writings and “Gnostic” Gospels from Nag Hammadi, Egypt |
| 10.1 | Coins as Evidence for Ancient Inflation? |
| 11.1 | The Life of the Mathematician, Scientist, and Philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria |
| 12.1 | A Tombstone for Monica, Mother of Augustine |
| 13.1 | Graves in Turfan, Xinjiang, on the Northern Silk Roads |
| 14.1 | The Hunting Lodge at Qusayr ‘Amra, Jordan |