Jason von Ehrenkrook, scholar
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Biography
In 2002 Jason von Ehrenkrook entered the Graduate Program "Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World" in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. He successfully defended his PhD under the mentorship of Gabriele Boccaccini in 2009 and spent the next academic year as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2009-2010) with the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies. From 2010 to 2014 he was the Perlow Lecturer in Classical Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He transitioned to the University of Massachusetts Boston in the Fall of 2014 where he now holds the position of Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies.
Scholarship
Books
Articles in edited volumes
- The Parables of Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: A Bibliography, 1773-2006 - Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume
- The Afterlife in Philo and Josephus - Pages 97–118 in J. Harold Ellens, ed., Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife: Eternity in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Vol. 1; Praeger, 2013
- Christians, Pagans, and the Politics of Paideia in Late Antiquity - Pages 255–266 in Jason M. Zurawski and Gabriele Boccaccini, ed. Second Temple Jewish ‘Paideia’ in Context. Berlin: DeGruyter
Articles in journals
- "The Specter of Judeo-Christianity and the Politics of Gender Deviancy: From St. Paul of Tarsus to St. Paul, MN" - Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception 2.2 (2012) 253-263.
- "Effeminacy in the Shadow of Empire: The Politics of Transgressive Gender in Josephus's Bellum Judaicum" - The Jewish Quarterly Review 101.2 (2011) 145-163.
- "Image and Desire in the Wisdom of Solomon" - Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture 7 (2011) 41-50.
- "Sculpture, Space and the Poetics of Idolatry in Josephus' Bellum Judaicum" - Journal for the Study of Judaism 39 (2008) 170-191.
Works in Progress
- The Presidents' Bible: Scripture and Presidential Politics (Book)
Teaching
- Relsty 109 Symbol, Myth, Ritual: Cultural Studies of Religion
- Relsty 125 Jerusalem: Sacred Space, Contested Space
- Relsty 220 Myth in the Ancient Near East
- Relsty 241 Myth, History, Prophecy: The Old Testament
- Relsty 242 Christian Origins
- Relsty 310 Apocalypse and the End of the World