STEM Ed+ Commons | Andrew Jacobs | Activity https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/drewjake/activity/ Activity feed for Andrew Jacobs. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:59 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 71e35128c1e6a3a7ba26f77a767facb6 Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1929119/ Sat, 27 Sep 2025 12:38:34 +0000 0 233ed91f540859aca49ae46d273e32a4 Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1919391/ Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:34:22 +0000 0 bd6c2d878a0ac6b5771f9dfac78efca7 Andrew Jacobs changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1919390/ Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:30:53 +0000 0 226042e4d95d329dd6f49345296a8029 Andrew Jacobs deposited “Coloured by the Nature of Christianity”: Nock’s Invention of Religion and Ex-Jews in Late Antiquity in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793769/ Sun, 11 Sep 2022 02:27:12 +0000 It is my modest goal in this essay to trace how Nock uses conversion to produce religion(s) and then to explore its similarities to and differences from an analogous construction of religion-through-conversion in late antiquity.

]]> 0 f566e5e497793739233e65bdbf9894e3 Andrew Jacobs deposited “Coloured by the Nature of Christianity”: Nock’s Invention of Religion and Ex-Jews in Late Antiquity in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793768/ Sun, 11 Sep 2022 02:27:11 +0000 It is my modest goal in this essay to trace how Nock uses conversion to produce religion(s) and then to explore its similarities to and differences from an analogous construction of religion-through-conversion in late antiquity.

]]> 0 9b50d5ea8c53df8cddb679cdad45c1f7 Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793746/ Sat, 10 Sep 2022 19:51:28 +0000 0 161e01e6e9be907985fbaa57daeecfbb Andrew Jacobs deposited “Coloured by the Nature of Christianity”: Nock’s Invention of Religion and Ex-Jews in Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793743/ Sat, 10 Sep 2022 19:42:22 +0000 It is my modest goal in this essay to trace how Nock uses conversion to produce religion(s) and then to explore its similarities to and differences from an analogous construction of religion-through-conversion in late antiquity.

]]> 0 1fa4244795dff622f66abfa1ef185fa8 Andrew Jacobs deposited Christianizing the Roman Empire: Jews and the Law from Constantine to Justinian, 300–600 CE in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781992/ Thu, 19 May 2022 02:23:49 +0000 The circulation and republication of Christian Roman laws on Jews and Judaism gives us a window into the ways imperial attention to the Jewish “other” – sometimes benevolent, sometimes punitive – created multiple paths for the Christianization of the Roman Empire. Laws on economic status, social interaction, and religious custom ultimately produce…[Read more]

]]> 0 e37b3dd9349c95f912c2ad4d063f777d Andrew Jacobs deposited Christianizing the Roman Empire: Jews and the Law from Constantine to Justinian, 300–600 CE in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781991/ Thu, 19 May 2022 02:23:48 +0000 The circulation and republication of Christian Roman laws on Jews and Judaism gives us a window into the ways imperial attention to the Jewish “other” – sometimes benevolent, sometimes punitive – created multiple paths for the Christianization of the Roman Empire. Laws on economic status, social interaction, and religious custom ultimately produce…[Read more]

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]]> 0 e0eaa55391ed59e4f920f3ef94c57ae6 Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781908/ Wed, 18 May 2022 16:21:27 +0000 0 9305947ee39cb45be24c19bb9f1143fe Andrew Jacobs deposited Christianizing the Roman Empire: Jews and the Law from Constantine to Justinian, 300–600 CE https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781906/ Wed, 18 May 2022 15:38:35 +0000 The circulation and republication of Christian Roman laws on Jews and Judaism gives us a window into the ways imperial attention to the Jewish “other” – sometimes benevolent, sometimes punitive – created multiple paths for the Christianization of the Roman Empire. Laws on economic status, social interaction, and religious custom ultimately produce…[Read more]

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]]> 0 60529051a9b0b262d5d654fecbfbe639 Andrew Jacobs deposited Interpreting conversion in antiquity (and beyond) in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740379/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 02:23:50 +0000 This essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure the historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges the diverse processes, contexts, and meanings of conversion but nonetheless sees the phenomenon as a way to access the con…[Read more]

]]> 0 b13506ab94011697823555e2b33918f4 Andrew Jacobs deposited Interpreting conversion in antiquity (and beyond) in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740378/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 02:23:48 +0000 This essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure the historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges the diverse processes, contexts, and meanings of conversion but nonetheless sees the phenomenon as a way to access the con…[Read more]

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]]> 0 034382f10f89a9b753c7c5ec68be4320 Andrew Jacobs deposited Gender, Conversion, and the End of Empire in the Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1730881/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 02:34:36 +0000 The seventh-century apocalyptic dialogue text Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati ("Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized") depicts forcibly baptized Jews coming to terms with their new situation in hidden meetings led by Jacob. At a key moment in the text, the last voices of Jewish resistance belong to the wife and mother-in-law of one of the dialogue…[Read more]

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]]> 0 139ceb3b603b12dcfe18658a1b9cc47b Andrew Jacobs deposited Ex-Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1695110/ Fri, 03 Jul 2020 16:25:23 +0000 This essay explores how and why three early Christian figures--Epiphanius, Romanos the Melode, and Ambrosiaster--have, at various times, been imagined as former Jews. By applying a hermeneutics of conversion, this essay argues that the significance of these three Christians' ex-Jewishness lies not in its historicity (or falsity) but in the way…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6883f52acec77aa24688a54068090cb Andrew Jacobs deposited Ex-Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1695109/ Fri, 03 Jul 2020 16:25:21 +0000 This essay explores how and why three early Christian figures--Epiphanius, Romanos the Melode, and Ambrosiaster--have, at various times, been imagined as former Jews. By applying a hermeneutics of conversion, this essay argues that the significance of these three Christians' ex-Jewishness lies not in its historicity (or falsity) but in the way…[Read more]

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]]> 0 9473e6801c4efec5da02ca1e25467e45 Andrew Jacobs deposited "This Piece of Parchment Will Shake the World": The Mystery of Mar Saba and the Evangelical Prototype of a Secular Fiction Genre in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682711/ Thu, 02 Apr 2020 16:25:21 +0000 The 1940 evangelical novel The Mystery of Mar Saba by James H. Hunter shares with a later, secular genre of novels I call gospel thrillers a common plot (the discovery of a new gospel from the first century and a race to prove or disprove its authenticity) but also common anxieties about biblical authority mapped onto geopolitical, theological,…[Read more]

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