About

Academic Interests:

Early Christianity (Patristics), Ancient Philosophy (Middle/Neoplatonism, Stoicism), Roman Imperial Literature, Reception of Texts in Antiquity

 

Jonathan H. Young is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford in Theology and Religion. His research centres on the intersections of the religious, philosophical, and intellectual history of the Roman Empire. His doctoral research focuses on Hellenic, Jewish, and Christian debates regarding animal cognition and animals’ involvement in the religious world, especially their capacities for religious behaviour and thought. His expertise includes Early Christianity, Ancient Philosophy, especially the Platonic tradition, Imperial Prose, and the reception of earlier texts in the Empire.

He is also intrigued by ancient portrayals of peoples, cultures, and religions in and around the Roman Empire, in particular Roman Egypt and Gaul. Additionally, he has extensive training in Greek and Latin palaeography, and is a student of Sahidic Coptic.

He holds master’s degrees in both Classics and Religious Studies as well as a bachelor’s degree in Classics.