Loyola University Chicago

Department of Theology

Scott Harris

 

EMAIL

sharris19@luc.edu 

STANDING

PhD Candidate

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Hellenistic Egypt, Hellenistic Judaism, historiography and theory of history, identity construction
 

PRESENTATIONS

“‘We Have Had Dreams and There Is No One to Interpret Them’: The Absence of Dream Interpretation in Artapanus’s Joseph Narrative.” To be presented in the Pseudepigrapha Session at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. Forthcoming, November 19-22, 2022.

“The Cartography of Origins: The Fragments of Artapanus and Colonial Foundations in Hellenistic Egypt.” To be presented at the Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference. Chicago, IL. May 26, 2022.

“Fabricated Foundations: History, Kinship and Colonial Metaphor in 1 Maccabees, Josephus, and Battlestar Galactica.” Presented in the Bible and Popular Culture Session at the Midwest Region Society of Biblical Literature (virtual). South Bend, IN. February 5, 2022.

“Cultural Supremacy in a Cosmopolitan World: Competitive Historiography in Ptolemaic Egypt.” Presented at the University of Virginia Graduate Conference on Religion. Charlottesville, VA. March 22, 2019.

EDUCATION

BA, Theology, Loyola University Chicago

MA, Biblical Languages and Literature, Loyola University Chicago

COURSES TAUGHT

UNIV 101, UNIV 102, UNIV 392, CIEP 112

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society of Biblical Literature
Society for Textual Studies
American Oriental Society