Publications

 

Books

1. Religious Encounters on the Southern Egyptian Frontier in Late Antiquity (AD 298-642) (PhD-thesis Groningen, 2005), 242 pp.

 

 

2. (ed.) The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006), viii, 288 pp. (together with M. van Dijk), also published as a special issue of Church History and Religious Culture 86

 

                                               

 

James Goehring (in BASP 44 [2007] 279): “There is much of interest in this collection of essays. (…) The first three papers work particularly well together, introducing the reader to the sophisticated debate over the use of Egyptian hagiography in the reconstruction of history. The other papers, while more tenuously bound together by a common interest in the continuing influence of the Egyptian ascetic tradition in the western Middle Ages, offer valuable evidence and intriguing methodological insights. This well-produced volume will appeal primarily to specialists in the fields of Late Antiquity, Coptic Egypt and the western Middle Ages.”

 

For more information, see http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=73&pid=26369

 

3. Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion. A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE) (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 173; Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2008), xviii + 466 pp.

 

 

Robert B. Gozzoli (in BMCR 2009.06.43): “The book is an importan[t] research tool for anyone studying Early Christianity in Egypt. (…) As for 537 CE being a fundamental date for the end of paganism in Egypt, Dijkstra has made a convincing argument to dismiss such date: there is no definite break between Isis and Christ at Philae, but the former flows into the other without significant conflicts. (…) Very pleasantly, the book is not overburdened by technicalities, it tries to keep everything under clear headings and it is a pleasure to read.”

 

For more information, see http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=8390

 

4. (ed.) Myths, Martyrs, and Modernity: Studies in the History of Religions in Honour of Jan N. Bremmer (Numen Book Series 127; Leiden: Brill, 2010), lvi + 701 pp. (together with J.E.A. Kroesen & Y.B. Kuiper)

 

 

 

For more information, see http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=31353

 

Articles

1. ‘Docent en museum: een Babylonische spraakverwarring. Een onderzoek naar excursies binnen het handelingsdeel KCV’, Lampas 35 (2002) 261-71

2. ‘Horus on His Throne. The Holy Falcon of Philae in His Demonic Cage’, Göttinger Miszellen 189 (2002) 7-10

3. ‘Grenzen verleggen in de late Oudheid’, Groniek 160 (2003) 421-8

4. ‘A World Full of the Word. The Biblical Learning of Dioscorus’, in A.A. MacDonald, M.W. Twomey, G.J. Reinink (eds), Learned Antiquity. Scholarship and Society in the Near East, the Greco-Roman World, and the Early Medieval West [Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 5] (Leuven, 2003) 135-46

5. ‘“In Year One of King Zachari”. Evidence of a New Nubian King from the Monastery of St. Simeon at Aswan’, Beiträge zur Sudanforschung 8 (2003) 31-9 (with J. van der Vliet)

6. ‘Het hergebruik van Oudegyptische tempels in de late Oudheid. Een regionale studie’, Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 30 (2003) 21-8

7. ‘Late Antique Inscriptions from the First Cataract Area Discovered and Rediscovered’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 33 (2003) 55-66

8. ‘A Cult of Isis at Philae after Justinian? Reconsidering P.Cair.Masp. I 67004’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 146 (2004) 137-54

9. ‘De laatste priesters van Philae en het einde van de Oudegyptische religie’, Phoenix. Bulletin van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap 51 (2005) 27-37

10. ‘The Administrative Position of Omboi and Syene in Late Antiquity’ (with K.A. Worp), Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 155 (2006) 183-7

11. ‘Introduction: The Encroaching Desert’, in J.H.F. Dijkstra, M. van Dijk (eds.), The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West (Leiden, 2006) 1-11 (with M. van Dijk)

12. ‘The Town of Syene. Report on the 3rd and 4th Season in Aswan’, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo 62 (2006) 215-77 (with C. von Pilgrim, K.-C. Bruhn, J. Wininger)

13. ‘“Une foule immense de moines”. The Coptic Life of Aaron and the Early Bishops of Philae’, in B. Palme (ed.), Akten des 23. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses. Wien, 22.-28. Juli 2001 [Papyrologica Vindobonensia 1] (Vienna, 2007) 191-7

14. ‘New Light on the Patermouthis Archive from Excavations at Aswan. When Archaeology and Papyrology Meet’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 44 (2007) 179-209

15. ‘A Bilingual Report of Proceedings with the First Consular Date to 433 C.E. in the Papyri’, in F.A.J. Hoogendijk, B.P. Muhs (eds), Sixty-Five Papyrological Texts Presented to Klaas A. Worp on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday [Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 33] (Leiden, 2008) 203-12 (no. 27)

16. ‘Mysteries of the Nile? Joseph Scaliger and Ancient Egypt’, Aries. Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 9 (2009) 59-82

17. ‘Structuring Graffiti: The Case of the Temple of Isis at Aswan’, in R. Preys (ed.), 7. Ägyptologische Tempeltagung: Structuring Religion. Leuven, 28. September – 1. Oktober 2005 [Königtum, Staat und Gesellschaft Früher Hochkulturen 3.2] (Wiesbaden, 2009): 77-93

18. ‘Patriarchs and Politics in Constantinople in the Reign of Anastasius (with a Reedition of O.Mon.Epiph. 59)’ (with G. Greatrex), Millennium Jahrbuch 6 (2009) 223-64

19. ‘Introduction’, in J.H.F. Dijkstra, J.E.A. Kroesen, Y.B. Kuiper (eds), Myths, Martyrs, and Modernity: Studies in the History of Religions in Honour of Jan N. Bremmer (Leiden, 2010) xxiii-xxxvi

 

Reviews

1. Religion in Roman Egypt. Assimilation and Resistance (David Frankfurter), Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 23 (2000) 28-9 (with Jan Schoneveld)

2. The Discovery of the Past (Alain Schnapp), Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 24 (2000) 35-6

3. Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph (Jas Elsner), Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 25 (2001) 36-8

4. Studien zur Christianisierung Nubiens (S.G. Richter), Le Muséon 117 (2004) 233-7 (with J.J. van Ginkel)

5. Provinical Cilicia and the Archaeology of Temple Conversion (R. Bayliss), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 18.09.2005 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-09-42.html)

6. Ancient Alexandria between Greece and Rome (W.V. Harris & G. Ruffini), Journal for the Study of Judaism 37 (2006) 447-9

7. The Complete Greek Temples (T. Spawforth), The Classical Bulletin 82 (2006) 243-5

8. Zuiver lezen. De Bijbel gelezen op de manier van de vroegchristelijke woestijnvaders (W. Reedijk), Church History and Religious Culture 87 (2007) 216-8

9. Early Christianity (Mark Humphries), Church History and Religious Culture 87 (2007) 365-7

10. The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt. Art, Identity and Funerary Religion (Christina Riggs), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 44 (2007) 273-6

11. A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641 (Stephen Mitchell), Mnemosyne 62 (2009) 336-9

12. Oxyrhynchus. A City and Its Texts (A.K. Bowman, R.A. Coles, N. Gonis, D. Obbink, P.J. Parsons, eds), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 46 (2009) 275-9

13. Deir el-Bahari in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. A Study of an Egyptian Temple Based on Greek Sources (A. Łajtar), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 46 (2009) 281-6

14. From Temple to Church. Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography (J. Hahn, S. Emmel, U. Gotter, eds), Bibliotheca Orientalis 66 (2009) 255-62

 

Short Notices

1. ‘Op weg naar complexiteit en dynamiek. Een kort verslag van het congres Regional Pathways to Complexity, Landscape and Settlement Dynamics in Early Italy (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 13-15 april 2000 ’, Jitse Dijkstra, Stefan Elevelt, Rik Feiken, Tymon de Haas, Jasper Huis in ‘t Veld, Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 23 (2000) 35-9

2. ‘Farao’s van de Zon: Achnaton, Nefertiti, Toetanchamon. Topstukken uit de Amarnaperiode in het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden’, Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 24 (2000) 44-5

3. ‘Docent en museum: een Babylonische spraakverwarring? Een onderzoek naar KCV-excursies’, VCN-bulletin 26, nr. 96 (2001) 24-5

4. ‘Docent en museum: een Babylonische spraakverwarring? Een onderzoeksverslag over KCV-excursies’, Oud Nieuws. Tijdschrift voor cultureel erfgoed en educatie 1 (2001) 14.

5. ‘Redactioneel’, Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 30 (2003) 2-3

6. ‘The Last Priests of Philae: A Mystery?’, in Www.PalArch.nl. Proceedings of the Annual Flemish-Netherlands Egyptologists Meeting (2005) 8-9

7. ‘The Graffiti Project at the Temple of Isis at Aswan, Egypt’, Bulletin of the Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies 8/1 (Winter 2005/6) 3-4

 

 

Forthcoming Publications

 

Articles

 

* ‘Greek Amulets and Formularies Containing Christian Elements: A Checklist of Papyri, Parchments, Ostraka, and Tablets’ (with T. de Bruyn), Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 47 (2010), ms. of 35 pp.

* ‘The Fate of the Temples in Late Antique Egypt’, in N. Christie, L. Lavan (eds), The Archaeology of Late Antique Paganism (Leiden, forthcoming 2010), ms. of 30 pp.

* ‘The Reuse of the Temple of Isis at Aswan as a Church in Late Antiquity’, Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies 1 (forthcoming 2010), ms. of 10 pp.

* ‘Blemmyes, Noubades and the Eastern Desert in Late Antiquity: Reassessing the Written Sources’, in H. Barnard, K. Duistermaat (eds), The

History of the Peoples of the Eastern Desert (Los Angeles, forthcoming), ms. of 18 pp.

* Chapter ‘Nubian Christianity’, in W. Tabbernee (ed.), Early Christianity in Contexts (Ada, MI, forthcoming), ms. of 7 pp.

* ‘New Evidence about the Fall of Patriarch Macedonius of Constantinople (511 CE) from a Coptic Ostrakon’, Journal of the Canadian Society of Coptic Studies 2 (forthcoming), ms. of 8 pp.

 

Reviews

* City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria (Edward J. Watts), Phoenix 63 (2009), ms. of 3 pp.

 

In Preparation

 

Books

* Syene I: The Figurative and Textual Graffiti of the Temple of Isis at Aswan

 

Articles

* ‘The Day of the Falcon. The Epiphany of the Holy Falcon at Edfu and Philae’ (with U. Fauerbach)

* (under contract) ‘Philae’, in Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum