CURRICULUM VITAE OF EMMANOUELA GRYPEOU

CURRICULUM VITAE OF EMMANOUELA GRYPEOU grypeou@gmail.com Present Position: Affiliated Lecturer, The Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge U.K. Past Employment: 2004-2008: Post-doctoral research fellow and adjunct lecturer with the research project: The Exegetical Encounters between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity, at the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge/ Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge UK. 2001 2004: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (post-doctoral research fellow with teaching responsibilities) with the research project: Globalization and Regionalization Processes in Eastern Christianity and Their Impact on the Formation, Expansion and Early Development of Islam in the 6 th and 7 th Centuries under the auspices of the Chair for Muslim Religious and Cultural History, Department of Religious Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany. WS 2003/04 SS 2004: Visiting Scholar at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, USA. 2000: Research and Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Orthodox Christianity, Department of Religious Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany. 1994 1997: Research and Teaching Assistant at the Department of History of Religions, Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Freiburg, Germany. Education: Ph.D., Field: Languages and Cultures of the Christian Orient Religious Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany (1996-2001). Doctoral Dissertation: Gnostische Bibelexegese und gnostische Ethik ( Gnostic Bible Exegesis and Gnostic Ethics, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Stephen Gerö, completed in 2001). M.A., Religious Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany (1991-1994). Masters Thesis: Zur Religionssoziologie der Gnosis: Die Gnosis als eine unsichtbare Religion? (A Sociological Approach to Gnosticism: Gnosticism as an invisible Religion?). B.A., Political Sciences and International Studies, Panteio University, Athens, Greece (1986-1990). Fellowships: Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft as Research Associate of the Interdisciplinary Research Project (Graduiertenkolleg): The Bible- its Origin and Development at the University of Tübingen (1997-2000). Fellowship of the Greek State (1992-1994) 1

International Conferences organized: The Encounter of Oriental Christianity with Early Islam, 6.-8. June 2003, Erfurt, Germany. (http://www.uni-erfurt.de/christian_muslim_encounters) The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity, 24-27 June 2007, Cambridge U.K. (with H. Spurling). (http://www.cjcr.org.uk/conference/) Other Academic Activities: External Referee Committee Member for the Journal: Collectanea Christiana Orientalia Review Editor of the e-journal: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations [2005-2006]. Co-editor with M. Swanson, J.-P. Monferrer Sala, D.Thomas, H. Teule, and J. Tolan of the Bibliographical History of Christian-Muslim Relations. (vol. I) [2006-2007]. Publications: Books The Book of Genesis: Exegetical Encounters between Christians and Jews in Late Antiquity (with H. Spurling), (Jewish Christian Perspectives 22), Leiden: Brill 2011 (forthcoming). Χριστιανισμός και Κοράνι. Μια έρεσνα στα τριστιανικά στοιτεία τοσ Ισλάμ (Christianity and the Qur an. A Study on the Christian Elements of Islam), Athens: Maistros 2010 (253 pp.). Η Σπηλιά των Θησασρών (The Cave of Treasures), an annotated translation from Syriac into Greek with an introduction, (Syriac Church Writers-6), Thera: Thesbites Publishing House 2010 (149 pp.). Das vollkommene Pascha : Gnostische Bibelexegese und gnostische Ethik (Orientalia Biblica et Christiana 15),Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 2005 (332 pp.). Reviews: B. Pearson, Religious Studies Review 32.4 (2006), 261. K. Rudolph, Theologische Literaturzeitung 13 (2007), 911-913. K. Pinggéra, Oriens Christianus 91 (2007), 234-235. A. Toepel, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 6 (2009), 497-499. Publications: Book Editions Bibel, christlicher Orient und Byzanz. Festschrift für Stephen Gerö zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. with D. Bumazhnov, T.B. Sailors, and A. Toepel (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 187), Louvain: Peeters 2011 (forthcoming). The Exegetical Encounter between Christians and Jews in Late Antiquity. Conference Proceedings, ed. with H. Spurling (Jewish Christian Perspectives 18), Leiden:Brill 2009. The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam, ed. with M. Swanson and D. Thomas (History of Muslim-Christian Relations 5), Leiden:Brill 2006. 2

Publications: Articles, Chapters in Books Gnostic Libertinism Revisited, in: D.Bumazhnov/ E.Grypeou/ T. Sailors/A. Toepel (eds), Bibel, christlicher Orient und Byzanz. Festschrift für Stephen Gero zum 65. Geburtstag, Leuven: Peeters 2011 (forthcoming). Paradiesvorstellungen in der griechisch-byzantinischen Literatur, in: J. Tubach et al. (eds), Die Sehnsucht nach dem Paradies, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2010, pp. 83-98. A tour of the other world : A contribution to the textual and literary criticism of the Six Books Apocalypse of the Virgin (with J.-P. Monferrer Sala), In: Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 6 (2009), pp. 111-165. Abraham s Angels: Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 18-19 (with H.Spurling), in: E.Grypeou-H.Spurling, The Exegetical Encounters between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity, Leiden:Brill 2009, pp. 181-203. Dualistic Groups and Cults in Syriac Sources and the Construction of the Image of the Heretic, in: The Harp. A Review of Syriac, Ecumenical and Oriental Studies 23 (2008), pp. 255-268. Alexander the Great in Islam, in: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception ed. H.-J. Klauck, et al., N.Y.-Berlin: de Gruyter 2002-2008. Ephraem Graecus, Sermo in Adventum Domini et de Consummatione Seculi et in Adventum Antichristi: Visions of the Antichrist and of the End of the World in writings attributed to Ephraem Graecus, in: A. Sauma (ed.), The Seventeenth Birth Centenary of Ephraem the Syrian, A Conference at Stockholm University, 2-3 December 2006, Stockholm 2008, pp. 20-30. Pirke de-rabbi Eliezer and Eastern Christian Exegesis (with H. Spurling), in: Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 4 (2007), pp. 217-243. Der Einfluss von Globaliserungs- und Regionalisierungsprozessen in der Geschichte der Ostkirche auf die Entstehung, Ausbreitung und frühe Entwicklung des Islam im sechsten und siebten Jahrhundert, in: J. Rüpke (ed.), Antike Religionsgeschichte in räumlicher Perspektive, Tübingen:Mohr Siebeck 2007, pp. 238-242. The rewritten Bible in Arabic: The Paradise Story and its Exegesis in the Arabic Apocalypse of Peter, in: D. Thomas (ed.), The Bible in Arab Christianity, Leiden:Brill 2007, pp. 113-129. The Visions of Apa Shenute of Atripe: An Analysis in the History of Traditions of Eastern Apocalyptic Motifs, in: J.-P. Monferrer Sala (ed.), Christian Crossroads. Essays on the Medieval Christian Legacy, Piscataway NJ: Gorgias Press 2007, pp. 143-153. The Table from Heaven: A Note on Qur ān, Sura 5,111ff., in: Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 2 (2005), pp. 311-316. Die Dämonologie der koptisch-gnostischen Literatur im Kontext jüdischer Apokalyptik in: H. Lichtenberger/A. Lange/D. Römheld (eds): Die Dämonen. Die Dämonologie der israelitisch-jüdischen und frühchristlichen Literatur im Kontext ihrer Umwelt, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2003, pp. 600-609. 3

έίέ, (The Place of Women in the Gospels) in: Orthodoxe Gegenwart, 70 (1999), pp. 55 60. Book Reviews: L. DiTommaso-L. Turcescu (eds), The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity (Bible in Ancient Christianity 6), Leiden-Boston: 2008, ζηο: Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 7 (2010), pp. 345-351. S.G. Vashalomidze, Die Stellung der Frau im alten Georgien, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2007, in: Georgica 31 (2008), pp. 140-142. Νέζηωρ Καββαδᾶς, Ὁ Βίος ηοῦ Ἐθραὶμ ηοῦ Σύροσ. Μεηάθραζη ἀπὸ ηὰ Σσριακὰ. Εἰζαγωγὴ- Στόλια, (Σσριακὴ Ἐκκληζιαζηικὴ Γραμμαηεία -5), Θήρα-Θεζβίηης 2007 (Nestor Kabbadas, The Life of Ephraem the Syrian. Translation from the Syriac Introduction and Commentary, (Syriac Church Writers 5), Thera: Thesbites 2007), in: Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 6 (2009), pp. 512-513. S.G. Vashalomidze and L. Greisiger, Der christliche Orient und seine Umwelt. Gesammelte Studien zu Ehren Jürgen Tubachs anläßlich seines 60. Geburtstags. Studies in Oriental Religions 56, Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz 2007, in: Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 6 (2009), pp. 563-566. A. Toepel, Die Adam- und Seth-Legenden im syrischen «Buch der Schatzhöhle». Eine quellenkritische Untersuchung, (CSCO 618 CSCO Subsidia 119) Louvain:Peeters 2006, in: Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 6 (2009), pp. 553-556. Lorenzo DiTommaso, The Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel Literature, Studies in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha 20, Leiden:Brill 2005, in: Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 4 (2007), pp. 404-406. Testamentum Salomonis Arabicum, edición, traducción y estudio J.-P. Monferrer Sala, Córdoba 2006, in: Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 4 (2007), pp. 478-480. Daniel Boyarin, Border Lines. The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity, Philadelphia 2004: University of Philadelphia Press, in Studies in Christian Jewish Relations 2. (e-journal). Andrea Eberle unter Mitarbeit von Regine Schulz, Koptisch: Ein Leitfaden durch das Saïdische (Languages of the World/Materials 07), München: Lincom Europa 2004, in: Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 3 (2006) pp. 430-432. M.G. Lancelotti, The Naassenes. A Gnostic Identity Among Judaism, Christianity, Classical and Near Eastern Traditions, Münster 2001, in: Ugarit-Forschungen 34 (2003), pp. 960-962. Papers Presented at Professional Meetings and Universities: Koptische Himmel- und Höllenfahrten im Kontext jüdisch-pseudepigraphischer Literatur, 3. Tübinger Tagung zum Christlichen Orient: Christlicher Orient zwischen Judentum und Islam, 6.12.2009, Tübingen (invited). Die apokalyptische Literatur des christlichen Orients und der Islam, Invited Lecture in Honour of Prof. Dr. Gerö for his 65 th Birthday, Orientalisches Seminar,18.7.2008, Tübingen. 4

The Exegetical Encounter between Christians and Jews in Late Antiquity, Seminar Paper (with H. Spurling), 15th International Patristics Conference, 8.8.2007, Oxford, U.K. Angels in Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis (with H. Spurling), International Conference: The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity, 24-27.6.2007, Cambridge, U.K. The Fall of the Angels: The Exegetical Encounter on Gen 6:1-8, Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, 13.2.2007, Cambridge, U.K. Melchizedek in Jewish and Christian Tradition, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, 22.1.2007, Cambridge, U.K. De Consummatione Mundi by Ephraem Graecus, 17 th Birth Centennary of Mar Ephraem, 2.12. 2006, Stockholm (invited). Dualistic Heresies and Cults in Syriac Sources, 6 th Syriac Conference, 13.9.2006, Kottayam, India. Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer and the Cave of Treasures: Use of Christian Literature in the Study of Rabbinic Texts (with H. Spurling), British Association of Jewish Studies Conference, 12.7.2006, Cambridge, U.K. Aspects of the Relations between Christians and Jews in the Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity, 19.5. 2006, University of Tübingen (invited). The rewritten Bible in Arabic: The Paradise Story and its Exegesis in the Arabic Apocalypse of Peter, Fifth Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam, 14.9.2005, Selly Oak, Birmingham, U.K. (invited) The Visions of Apa Shenute of Atripe: An Analysis in the History of Traditions of Eastern Apocalyptic Motifs, 1 st International Conference on Eastern Christianity, 16.11.2005, Cordoba, Spain (invited). Gnostische Bibelexegese, Leucorea-Kolloquium 2005, Institut für Orientalistik, Universität Halle, Hermeneutik und Exegese, Verstehenslehre und Verstehensdeutung im regionalen System koexistierender Religionsgemeinschaften im Orient, 20.5.2005, Wittenberg (invited). Christliche Apokalyptik als Reaktion auf die islamischen Eroberungen, Kolloquium des Marburger Fachgebietes Kirchengeschichte, 22.10.2004, Schmalkalden (invited). The Apocalyptic Reaction to the Islamic Conquests against the Background of Earlier Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature, VIIe Congrès International des Études Arabes Chrétiennes, 24.9.2004, Lebanon. Midrashic Elements in the Coptic-Gnostic Texts, Invited Lecture, Department of History, University of Kentucky, 17.4.2004, Lexington, Kentucky. The Reception of the Old Testament in Gnosticism, Invited Lecture, Department of Semitic Languages, The Catholic University of America, 15.4.2004, Washington D.C. Christliche Apokalyptik als Reaktion auf die Entstehung und Ausbreitung des Islam im Kontext ihrer konfessionellen Zugehörigkeit, Workshop sponsored by the Research Program: Römische Reichsreligion und Provinzialreligion of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 4.5.2002, Erfurt. 5

Elijah in Upper Egypt: The Apocalypse of Elijah and Early Egyptian Christianity. A Critical Approach, Doctoral Exams Lecture, Seminar für Orientalistik, 10.12.2001, Tübingen. Die Dämonologie der koptisch-gnostischen Literatur im Kontext jüdischer Apokalyptik, International Symposium: Die Dämonologie der israelitisch-jüdischen und frühchristlichen Literatur im Kontext ihrer Umwelt, 25.5.2001, Rottenburg (invited). Response to B.Gladigow: Der Ikonoklasmus der Schrift. Von Lesemysterien zu illuminierten Handschriften, International Symposium: Bilder in Texten Texte in Bildern. Zur Korrelation und Kontradiktion von Text und Bild im Wirkungskreis der Bibel, 11.10.1999, Tübingen. Mythos und Allegorie. Die Rezeption des Alten Testaments in der Gnosis, Public Lectures Series of the Graduiertenkolleg Die Bibel: ihre Entstehung und ihre Wirkung, University of Tübingen, 27.4.1999, Tübingen. Die Rezeption biblischer Motive in den koptisch-gnostischen Texten von Nag Hammadi vor ihrem jüdisch-apokalyptischen Hintergrund, Society for the Study of New Testament and Judaism, Faculty of Evangelical Theology, University of Tübingen, 11.12.1999, Tübingen. Die Romanioten: Geschichte und Gegenwart des griechischen Judentums (The Romaniots: Past and Present of the Greek Jewry); at the Institute for Religious Studies, University of Tübingen, 14.7.1998, Tübingen, (invited). Conference Travel Grants DFG Conference Travel Grant: VIIe Congrès International des Études Arabes Chrétiennes, 20.-25. September 2004, Lebanon. Cambridge University Conference Travel Grant: 6 th Syriac Conference, 9-16 September 2006, Kottayam, India. Professional Memberships Society of Biblical Literature American Academy of Religion 6