OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Vigiliae Christianae is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Thecla and Medieval Sainthood: The Acts of Paul and Thecla in Eastern and Western Hagiography, edited by Ghazzal Dabiri and Flavia Ruani	2
The Catena Manuscripts on Acts: A Revised Classification	1
Rufinus and the Reimagination of Pliny’s Correspondence with Trajan (HE 3.33)	1
New Books	1
New Books	1
New Books	1
The Orthodox Woman: Jerome on the Relation Between Asceticism, Orthodoxy, and Gender	1
The Apologetics of Mystery: The Traditio apostolica and Appeals to Pythagorean Initiation in Josephus and Iamblichus	0
Acts of John, written by Joey McCollum & Brent Niedergall	0
Elementary Errors: Philosophers, Idolaters, and τὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου in Paul and Clement of Alexandria	0
New Books	0
New Books	0
Tertullians Gegnerin aus De baptismo 1 und Die Paraphrase des Sêem (NHC VII,1)	0
Against “Irenaean” Theodicy: A Refutation of John Hick’s Use of Irenaeus, written by David Hionides	0
The Christians of Phrygia from Rome to the Turkish Conquest, written by Stephen Mitchell	0
Tachygraphie und Tachygraphen bei Basilius von Caesarea – und darüber hinaus	0
A Fourth-Century Papyrus Letter to a ‘Priest and Confessor’	0
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New Books	0
The Circumcising Antichrist in the Credo of Gregory of Tours: Sources, Context, and Influence	0
Eucherius’ Enigmatic Formulas of Spiritual Knowledge	0
New Books	0
New Books	0
The Oxford Handbook of Origen, edited by Ronald E. Heine and Karen Jo Torjesen	0
“Just as You Quenched the Fiery Furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, Also Quench Every Fever.” The Three Holy Children in Coptic Magic	0

Person and Nature in Maxentius the Scythian (fl. ca. 518–523)	0
A Latin Pictorial Witness to Tatian’s Diatessaron	0
Making Memories: Countercultural Memory in Irenaeus, Martyrdom of Polycarp, and Apocryphon of James	0
A Problem in Gregory of Nazianzus, Epistle 4	0
A Roman Commentary on St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, written by Richard J. Cassidy	0
The Shepherd of Hermas and the Pauline Legacy, written by Jonathan E. Soyars	0
‘A New Book according to the Syllables’: Organizing Scripture in Clement of Alexandria	0
Made by the Hands of God: Human Dignity in Hilary of Poitiers’s Exegesis of Ps 118:73a LXX	0
The “Catholic” Church in Socrates of Constantinople and Pacian of Barcelona	0
Die philosophische Lehre des Platonismus. Die Ethik im antiken Platonismus der Kaiserzeit Bausteine 231–252: Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar, written by C. Pietsch, unter Mitarbeit von B. Krämer, M. Menz	0
Le De Trinitate du Pseudo-Didyme et le culte des archanges : un élément méconnu de datation	0
The Didactic Nature of Gregory Nazianzen’s Poemata Arcana and the Theme of Continual, Gradated Progress	0
Tyconius the African: Reassessing the Theory of His Greek Origins	0
Clavis Origenis (Adamantiana 30), edited by Samuel Fernández and Alfons Fürst	0
The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power, written by Jennifer Awes Freeman	0
Μέσος ὑμῶν ἕστηκεν	0
Greek Genres and Jewish Authors: Negotiating Literary Culture in the Greco-Roman Era, written by Sean A. Adams	0
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Madness and the Apostle: Paul’s Jewishness in the Euthalian Prologue to the Letters of Paul and in the Writings of John Chrysostom	0
Eusebian Canon Ten in Codex Fuldensis	0
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The Teachings of Silvanus	0
Die Liebe einer Mutter bei Prudentius	0
How Temporality Shapes Social Structure in the Acts of Thomas	0
Slaves of the People: A Political and Social History of Roman Public Slavery, written by Franco Luciani	0
Victorinus of Pettau and Angelomorphic Theological Traditions	0
Mani the Anchorite, Mani the Apostle: The Cologne Mani Codex and Syrian Asceticism	0
The Trinitarian Doctrine of Isidore of Pelusium	0
Grégoire de Nysse, Trois oraisons funèbres, written by Mélèce, Flacilla, Pulchérie	0
Reconstructing Melito of Sardis’s Interpretation of Revelation’s New Jerusalem	0
τὰ ἅγια εἰς λόγον εὐλογιῶν: Laodicea Canon 14 in its Phrygian Context	0
Does Justin Argue with Jews? Reconsidering the Relevance of Philo	0
New Books	0
Agents in Liturgy, Charity and Communication. The Tasks of Female Decons in the Apostolic Constitutions, written by Pauliina Pylvänäinen	0
The Sound of Silence: Augustine’s Soundscape for the Christian Empire	0
The Account of Perseus in Orosius: Sources and Precedents	0
Social Network Analysis and the Dating of Coptic Manuscripts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius	0
Learning the Language of Scripture. Origen, Wisdom, and the Logic of Interpretation, written by Mark Randall James	0
Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice: Miscellany and the Transformation of Greco-Roman Writing, written by J.M.F. Heath	0
Justin Martyr’s Problem with Platonism: Heresy and Anthropology in Dialogue 4 and the Syntagma	0
New Books	0
Prolegomena zu den spätantiken Konstitutionen. Nebst einer Analyse der erbrechtlichen und verwandten Sanktionen gegen Heterodoxe, written by Peter Riedlberger	0
Constructing, Revealing and Concealing Identity through Oaths in the Late Ancient Eastern Mediterranean	0
Wild Girls in the Carthaginian Church? Cyprian’s De Habitu Virginum	0
Den Menschen dem Menschen erklären: Deskriptivität und Normativität in den christlichen Anthropologien von Laktanz, Gregor von Nyssa und Nemesios von Emesa, written by Diego De Brasi	0
“Horse and Rider He Threw into the Sea” (Exod 15:1)	0
The Library of Paradise: A History of Contemplative Reading in the Monasteries of the Church of the East, written by David A. Michelson	0
Évagre le Pontique: Scholies aux Psaumes, tomes I–II, edited by Marie-Josèphe Rondeau, Paul Géhin, and Matthieu Cassin	0
Shaping Mind and Model: John Chrysostom’s Method of Exemplification in De Davide et Saule I	0
Sur la Pâque, written by Timothée	0

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Mani and Augustine. Collected Essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine, written by Johannes van Oort	0
Divine Incomprehensibility and Human Faith in John Chrysostom	0
The Protevangelium of James	0
New Books	0
A Greek-Coptic Miaphysite Litany from Thebes (P.Mon.Epiph. 49)	0
Framing Christian Succession: Eusebius, Constantine’s Sons and the Vita Constantini	0
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Doxography and Eschatology in Clement of Alexandria	0
The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity, edited by Bruce W. Longenecker and David E. Wilhite	0
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New Books	0
Valentinianism: New Studies, edited by Christoph Markschies & Einar Thomassen	0
Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity, written by Georgia Frank	0
Sacharja 13,7 in der koptischen Vita Pachomii?	0
New Books	0
Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues	0
A Problem in Augustine, Confessions 3.21	0
“I am an Image of Your Glory”: Exegesis and Theology in a Byzantine Funeral Hymn	0
New Books	0
A Newly Identified Letter of Valentinus on Jesus’s Digestive System: Ps.-Basil of Caesarea’s ep. 366	0
“Its Own Nature, Knowledge, and Form”: Paronomasia in the Syriac Translation of Evagrius of Pontus’s Great Letter	0
Trois notes sur le texte des fragments historiques d’Hilaire de Poitiers (Fragmenta ex opere historico, B, II, 9, 6, 2 ; 11, 2)	0
Bardesane et l’herméneutique des Écritures : l’étude des nouveaux témoignages	0
The Shepherd of Hermas: A Literary, Historical, and Theological Handbook, written by Jonathon Lookadoo	0
New Books	0
A Pontic Ophir: A Proposed Emendation to Gregory of Nazianzus’s Epistle 4 on Basil’s Monastery	0
Preserving Scriptural Harmony	0
New Books	0
The Lexical and Syntactical Calque superaedificare in the Latin Tradition of the New Testament Epistles	0
New Books	0
Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture, written by Robyn Faith Walsh	0
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Structure et enjeux du commonitorium d’Orientius : un poème gouverné par une « tension eschatologique »	0
Du créateur biblique au démiurge gnostique. Trajectoire et réception du motif du blasphème de l’Archonte, written by Steve Johnston	0
The So-Called Stratiotics and Phibionites	0
Augustine on Embryology and Human Procreation: Theological and Physiological Context	0
A Latin Chrysostom Collection, the Semi-Pelagian Controversy, and Sixth-century Rome	0
Cyprian im Bund mit dem Teufel	0
New Books	0
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 22: Og (King of Bashan) – Papyrus/Papyri, edited by Constance M. Furey a.o.	0
Augustine and Nicene Theology: Essays on Augustine and the Latin Argument for Nicaea, written by Michel René Barnes	0
Emperor Julian and Polemical Exemplarity in Against the Galileans: Solomon and John the Evangelist	0
Marius Victorinus als christlicher Philosoph: Die trinitätstheologischen Schriften des Gaius Marius Victorinus und ihre philosophie-, kirchen- und theologiegeschichtlichen Kontexte, written by Florian	0
Natural Law, Free Choice, and Moral Responsibility in the Anthropology of John Chrysostom	0
Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought. Elites and the Challenges of Apostolic Life, written by Jaclyn L. Maxwell	0
Die Trostschriften des Ambrosius von Mailand, written by Florian Durner	0
« Les Deux Livres de Iéou » (MS Bruce 96,1–3). Les livres du grand discours mystérique, Le livre des connaissances du Dieu invisible, Fragment sur le passage de l’âme, edited and translated by Éric Cr	0
Did “The Gnostic Heresy” Influence Valentinus? An Investigation of Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.1 and 1.29	0
Creative Chronography in Early Christianity: John Malalas on the Deaths of King Cyrus of Persia	0
Ennode, Ep. 6,9. Un complément à Cassiodore, Var. 1,9 ?	0
Reaching for Perfection. Studies on the Means and Goals of Ascetical Practices in an Interreligious Perspective, edited by Joseph Verheyden a.o.	0
The Ascetic Subculture of the Acts of Thomas and His Wonderworking Skin	0
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New Books	0
‘Exploring Finitude’: Weakness and Integrity in Isaac of Nineveh, written by Valentina Duca	0
The Council of Ephesus of 431: Documents and Proceedings, translated by Richard Price and edited by Thomas Graumann	0
The Latin Polycarp, the Division Hypothesis, and Polylingual Text	0
Die frühchristliche Eucharistie, written by Predrag Bukovec	0
Reading Basil of Caesarea’s On the Holy Spirit as Apology	0
New Books	0
The Nature of the Homily in the Corpus of Origen: Insights from the Greek Homilies on the Psalms and Jeremiah	0
Allo specchio dell’altro. Strategie di resilienza di „pagani“ e gnostici tra II e IV secolo d.C., edited by Maria Vittoria Cerutti	0
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The “Milan Euchologion”: Reconstructing an Unknown Fourth-Century Anaphora and Its Post-Anaphoral Prayers	0
A Note on “substomachans” (Augustine, conf. 3.21)	0