Janet A. Timbie, Ph.D. (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)

Adjunct Associate Professor

Principal areas of interest: Coptic Language and Literature;  Egyptian asceticism and monasticism; Gnosticism; Manicheism

Selected Publications:

Books
The Testament of Job, ed. Robert A. Kraft, with Harold Attridge, Russell Spittler, and Janet Timbie. SBL Texts and Translations Series, no. 5. Scholars Press, 1975.
The World of Early Egyptian Christianity, ed. James Goehring and Janet Timbie.  CUA Press, 2007.

Articles
"The Dating of a Coptic/Sahidic Psalter Codex from the University Museum in Philadelphia," Le Muséon 88 (1975) 387-90.
"Non-Canonical Scriptural Citation in Shenoute," in Actes du huitième congrès international d'études coptes, ed. Nathalie Bosson and Anne Boud'hors, 625-634.  Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 163.  Louvain: Peeters, 2007.
"A Liturgical Procession in the Desert of Apa Shenoute" in Pilgrimage and Holy Space in the Late Antique Egypt, ed. David Frankfurter, 415-441. Leiden: Brill, 1998.
"Once More into the Desert of Apa Shenoute: Further Thoughts on BN 68," in Christianity and Monasticism in the Region of Sohag.  American University of Cairo Press (forthcoming).
"Reading and Re-reading Shenoute's I Am Amazed: More Information on Nestorius and Others," in The World of Early Egyptian Christianity, ed. James Goehring and Janet Timbie, 61-71.  Washington, DC: CUA Press, 2007.
"Shenoute's Sermon “The Lord Thundered: An  Introduction and Translation," Oriens Christianus 90 (2006) 93-125, with Jason Zaborowski.
"The State of Research on the Career of Shenoute of Atripe," in The Roots of Egyptian Christianity, ed. Birger Pearson and James Goehring, 258-270.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.
"The State of Research on the Career of Shenoute of Atripe in 2004," Coptica 4 (2005) 52-74.
"Translating and Interpreting the Letters of Antony," in A Multiform Heritage: Studies on Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Robert A. Kraft, ed. Benjamin G. Wright, 213-225.  Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1999.
" 'What is epiphere?' Genesis 1:2b in the Sahidic Version of the LXX and the Apocryphon of John," in festschrift for Francis Gignac, ed. Jeremy Corley.  CBA (forthcoming).

Contributions to Reference Works
The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity , ed. Ken Parry (2007): Coptic Christianity.
The Coptic Encyclopedia, ed. A. S. Atiya (1991): Anthropomorphism; Melitian schism; Melitius.
Encyclopedia of Monasticism, ed. W. Johnston (2000): Jerome and other articles.
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. A. Kazhdan (1991): Antony the Great and other articles.