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M. F. Heath Cambridge University Press, 2020. Available from CUP here. This book easily takes first for me—in large part because it is the necessary ground-clearing needed in order for my thesis topic to exist. In Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice, Jane Heath offers an interdisciplinary masterclass by balancing classical and theological points of interest in Clement while also shedding light on weaknesses of Clementine scholarship as a discipline. Heath does a great job providing her reader with the necessary classical and Christian contexts for interacting with Clement’s texts, and in doing so assembles a project that feels whole—a rare feat when tackling a project as broad in scope as this one. Heath’s familiarity with the literature makes this a great read for those interested in the formation of Christianity’s distinct intellectual and literary identity in antiquity, and her skill in wedding multiple disciplines together makes it worth the attention of those scholars disinterested in the topic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dc6c036e5d592302d94fd4/3f69d29a-0028-4f47-ae1e-906876ca8fc2/My+project-1-2.jpg Archive - My 5 Favorite Books in (Almost) Two Years of Doctoral Research - Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts Peter Struck Princeton University Press, 2004. Available from PUP here. I read Birth of the Symbol early in my program after my supervisor continued to reference it in passing during Zoom meetings or while talking to other students. (I am almost certain he told me directly at some point that I needed to read it, but I do not remember being too eager about it.) I did not expect to have so much fun reading this book. 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Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society of Classical Studies for a good reason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dc6c036e5d592302d94fd4/72abc730-fda7-4e53-b4de-e871ee45af16/My+project-1-4.jpg Archive - My 5 Favorite Books in (Almost) Two Years of Doctoral Research - Visions of Politics: Regarding Method (Volume 1) Quentin Skinner Cambridge University Press, 2002. Available from CUP here. This was another one I read very early in my program, for similar reasons to the Struck book. My supervisor kept mentioning and suggesting it, so it felt appropriate to pick up a copy for myself. This book is the first in a trilogy, mostly made up of essays Skinner wrote over four decades of his career. While much of Skinner’s work revolves around intellectual history, political thought, and the history of ideas, this volume is primarily an exploration of hermeneutics: how do we interact with texts, and how do we understand their force? It is reminiscent of Wittgenstein but much more digestible for most readers. There is not much else to say here other than this meme I tweeted recently, which reads “I am once again quoting Quentin Skinner in something I wrote” . . . because it is true. I always end up doing it for some reason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dc6c036e5d592302d94fd4/799b4068-30dc-4ee0-8108-0ac260a5c4f7/71R3AnpGRVL._AC_UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg Archive - My 5 Favorite Books in (Almost) Two Years of Doctoral Research - Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of its Development from the Stoics to Origen George Boys-Stones Oxford University Press, 2001. Available from OUP here. I think this one is the shortest on the list—it is fewer than 200 pages if you exclude the bibliographic info at the end. But it would be a mistake to let its size fool you: Boys-Stones packs a great punch in this overview of how philosophy developed in the first few centuries, often casting special attention to its interaction with emergent Jewish and Christian theologies. At the time I read this, I was planning to do a lot with Clement and Origen’s presentation of Moses, so I was particularly interested in the final two chapters (“The Invention of Hebraeo-Christian Orthodoxy” and “The Dependency Theme”). Still, I think this book is a really good read for those interested in a starting place for thinking about how Christianity interacted with the philosophies surrounding it. Boys-Stones is a clear communicator; the book feels relatively complete to me even though it focuses on a few specific sources and threads within the post-Hellenistic era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61dc6c036e5d592302d94fd4/0426da7b-c7f2-4ac2-a496-99792a5df31d/611kywvAgZL._AC_UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg Archive - My 5 Favorite Books in (Almost) Two Years of Doctoral Research - From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries Peter Lampe Fortress Press, 2003. Available from FP here. Technically, I read this when I was preparing a paper on Irenaeus and still feeling around for my thesis topic. But, still, I walked away really impressed by this book. I will be the first to admit that archeology and its intersection with social history are not my primary research interests, so I have little context for how this book was received in its broader scholarly community; however, it reads like a magnum opus that reconstructs an image of the early church’s fractionated state in Rome. You very well may disagree with Lampe’s “fractionation thesis,” or his analysis of the findings, but it feels relatively safe to say he upholds both the unity and diversity of the Christian community at Rome in this timeframe—and he tries to support it with archeological evidences rather than literary ones. That is a nice change of pace from literary social reconstructions. I have recently begun to hope for someone to write the version of this book for Alexandria, as I think it is really the only other major city that could replicate this study methodologically. 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