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Roshan Abraham

Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies

Office Contact Information

Office
January Hall, Room 204
Office hours
Tuesday & Thursday 1:00-2:00 pm and by appointment
Mailbox

Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1050
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Phone
(314) 935-5183
Fax
(314) 935-8723
Email
rabraham@artsci.wustl.edu
URL
Website
RESEARCH

EDUCATION:
PhD University of Pennsylvania, 2009

RESEARCH AREAS:
Early Christianity; Greek and Roman magic and religion

TEACHING

Early Christianity and Classical Culture:
This course explores the tangled, sometimes conflictual, but always fascinating relations between early Christianity and the classical world through which it spread. Topics to be discussed include: the Pauline epistles in relation to Greco-Roman letter writing; the gospels and pagan biographical traditions; the apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and the ancient novel; and the relationship between miracle and magic in regards to Jesus and pagan holy men. Our aim is to understand the multicultural, cosmopolitan world that gave rise to Christianity and its earliest literature. 3 units.