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Joseph Foltz

@jofoltz.bsky.social

New Testament Studies / Late Antique & Medieval Christian Art PhD Student @ Univ. of Denver

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Joint Doctoral Program in the Study of Religion - DU/Iliff@duiliffjdp.bsky.social · last wk.

JDP student Joseph Foltz just had a new book review published today! The review is of Gender Violence in Late Antiquity by Jennifer Barry. Jennifer Barry was a Marsico Visiting Scholar at the University of Denver in 2024. Here is the link to the review: www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/10...

Gender Violence in Late Antiquity — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

Jennifer Barry opens her new monograph, Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination , by invoking Sara Ahmed’s notion of the “Feminist Killjoy.”

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Ancient Jew Review@ancientjewreview.bsky.social · last wk.

Today on AJR, Joseph Foltz reviews Jennifer Barry's Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination (University of California Press, 2025) @jennisifire.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/10...

Gender Violence in Late Antiquity — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

Jennifer Barry opens her new monograph, Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination , by invoking Sara Ahmed’s notion of the “Feminist Killjoy.”

ancientjewreview.com

Joseph Foltz@jofoltz.bsky.social · last wk.

I couldn’t be happier to recommend Jennifer Barry’s (@jennisifire.bsky.social) new monograph to anyone working on (early) Christianity and/or the late ancient world! Check out my review of “Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination” here:

Gender Violence in Late Antiquity — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

Jennifer Barry opens her new monograph, Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination , by invoking Sara Ahmed’s notion of the “Feminist Killjoy.”

ancientjewreview.com

Joseph Foltz@jofoltz.bsky.social · 3w ago

So glad to have had such a productive presentation/discussion on the Coptic Act of Peter and Jan Rombouts’s “Fall of Simon Magus” at the How Bodies Matter Conference at Lund University! If you’re interested, Angela Molloy and I are also presenting the larger project at SBL next month (Sun 11/22)!

Conference Details: The Healing and Un-healing of Peter’s Paralyzed Daughter: Liberative Disability Ethics and the Coptic Act of Peter at the Colorado Convention Center (room 707) from 3:00-3:30 on Sunday, November 22nd.Joseph Foltz (left) and Angela Molloy (right) smiling beside a powerpoint of Jan Rombouts’s 16th century painting the “Fall of Simon Magus”
Joseph Foltz@jofoltz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thrilled to share that “Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts,” edited by @christycobb.bsky.social and Katherine A. Shaner is coming out soon! I had the privilege of working as an editorial assistant on this important volume. Check it out!

Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts

An essential resource for understanding slavery in the New Testament and early Christianity   Slavery permeated society in the ancient world. The realities ...

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NASSCAL@nasscal.bsky.social · 3y ago

Added to e-Clavis: Materiae apocryphorum ~ Cycle of the Virgin, Chora Church, Istanbul. A series of mosaics with scenes from the Protevangelium of James. Entry created by Joseph Foltz and Darby Alvarenga, under the supervision of Christy Cobb. www.nasscal.com/materiae-apo...

Cycle of the Virgin, Chora Church, Istanbul

Images: select color images from the Church of Chora, Wikimedia Commons, and Byzantine Legacy; full cycle in black and white in Underwood (1966); select color images in Ousterhout (2002; 2017); sel…

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