Kim Haines-Eitzen

Publications

Books and Edited Works

• Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks and What It Can Teach Us (Princeton University Press, 2022)
• The Gendered Palimpsest: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2012).
• Boundaries and Bodies in Late Antiquity, co-edited with Georgia Frank, special issue of The Journal of Early Christian Studies 17 (2009).
• Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Selected Articles

• “The Sound of Angels’ Wings in Paradise: Religious Identity and the Aural Imagination in the Testament of Adam,” in Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World
• “Geographies of Silence,” in Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perceptions in Byzantium
• "The Future of Patristics," in Blackwell Companion to Patristics
• "The Social History of Early Christian Scribes," in The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research
• “Imagining the Alexandrian Library and a ‘Bookish’ Christianity,” in Reading New Testament Papyri in Context
• “Textual Communities in Late-Antique Christianity” in A Companion to Late Antiquity
• "Engendering Palimpsests: Reading the Textual Tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla," in The Early Christian Book
• “The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles on Papyrus: Revisiting the Question of Readership and Audience,” in New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts and Their World
• “Ancient Judaism Imagined Through the Lens of Early  Christianity: The Work of James Rendel Harris, 1852-1941,” in Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture.
• “‘Girls Trained in the Art of Beautiful Writing’: Female Scribes in Roman Antiquity and Early Christianity,” Journal of Early Christian Studies

In the news

• National Humanities Center selects two A&S professors as 2024-25 Fellows
• Conference highlights humanities projects on the theme of “Crossing”
• NPR’s “The World According to Sound” comes to Klarman Hall