About
I study the reception of biblical literature among Syriac-using Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Education
PhD, Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium and VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands (joint doctorate)
MA, Classics and Ancient Civilizations, Leiden University, The Netherlands
BA, Theology and Religious Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands Publications
‘Tu, felix Salomon, nube: Solomon’s Marriages in Early Christian and East Syrian Biblical Interpretation’, Vigiliae Christiane 75.3 (2021), 303-326.
Peer-reviewed book chapters in edited collections
‘Organizing Exegetical Knowledge in Syriac Christianity: Extracts from Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs in the London Collection (BL Add. 12168)’, Studia Patristica CXV (2021), 187-198.
‘Annotation Practices in a Syriac Exegetical Collection (Ms. Vat. Syr. 103)’, in George Kiraz and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Scribal Habits in Near Eastern Manuscript Traditions (Texts and Studies 23, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2021), 225-246.
‘Sacred Spices: The Syriac Translation of Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs’, in Dan Batovici and Madalina Toca (eds.), Caught in Translation: Versions of Late-Antique Christian Literature (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 17, Leiden: Brill, 2020), 104-121.
Projects
I am currently working on a book project examining the Syriac reception of Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs. My next project focuses on marginal annotation and the collection of knowledge in Syriac commentaries on the biblical books of 1-2 Kings.
