John C. Reeves
John C. Reeves is Blumenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research agenda, broadly construed, revolves around the study of the religions practiced in the Mediterranean world, the Near East, and Iran from roughly 600 BCE through the Middle Ages. He is particularly interested in exploring and unpacking aspects of the literary and historical relationships among the varieties of indigenous, Jewish, Christian, Manichaean, Zoroastrian, gnostic, and Muslim communities that flourished during this period. He also studies the possible preservation and manipulation of what appear to be older formulations of biblical and biblically-allied compositions among chronologically later (sometimes much later) literary contexts and the questions such "fossils" provoke about our standard understandings of biblical and wider Near Eastern literary history.
He is at present actively pursuing three separate monograph projects: (1) a compilation and analysis (together with Annette Yoshiko Reed) of a huge library of literature associated with the biblical character Enoch gleaned from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic language sources; (2) a new annotated translation of the Syriac Cave of Treasures, along with some closely affiliated literature; and (3) a synthetic study of so-called "Chaldean dualism" as manifested in medieval Christian, Jewish, and Muslim sources.
Phone: (704) 687-5188
Address: Department of Religious Studies
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223
USA
He is at present actively pursuing three separate monograph projects: (1) a compilation and analysis (together with Annette Yoshiko Reed) of a huge library of literature associated with the biblical character Enoch gleaned from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic language sources; (2) a new annotated translation of the Syriac Cave of Treasures, along with some closely affiliated literature; and (3) a synthetic study of so-called "Chaldean dualism" as manifested in medieval Christian, Jewish, and Muslim sources.
Phone: (704) 687-5188
Address: Department of Religious Studies
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223
USA
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