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- David A. Michelson
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2007
david.a.michelson@ua.edu
Research Interests:
- Late Antiquity, Ancient History, and the Early Middle Ages
- Middle Eastern History
- History of Byzantium
- History of Christianity
- Syriac Culture and Literature
Courses Currently Teaching:
- Honors Western Civilization to 1648 (HY 105)
- History of Rome (HY 386)
Current Research:
- “Orthodoxy and the Spiritual Struggle in the World of
Philoxenos of Mabbug (470-523),” (manuscript) a investigation
into the formation of the concept of Orthodoxy in Early Syriac
Christianity based on the study of religious practices and polemics.
Selected Publications:
- “Introduction to Hugoye 13: A Double Issue on Philoxenos of Mabbug,” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 13.1 (2010): 3-8.
- “‘Though He Cannot Be Eaten, We Consume Him’:
Appeals to Liturgical Practice in the Christological Polemic of
Philoxenos of Mabbug,” invited contribution to a volume
on Syriac Studies, edited by George A. Kiraz (Piscataway, N.J.:
Gorgias Press, 2008).
- Review of Colin Morris, The Sepulchre of Christ and the Medieval
West: From the Beginning to 1600 in ALA Choice (April) 2006.
- Review of Sylvia Schein, Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader
Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099-1187) in ALA Choice (October)
2005.
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