David Martinez

David Martinez

David Martinez (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1985) is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, the Divinity School, and the College. He is the author of P. Michigan XVI: A Greek Love Charm from Egypt and Baptized for our Sakes: A Leather Trisagion from Egypt. He has also written articles on documentary Greek papyri and ancient Greek religion and magic. His current projects include the publication of the Texas papyri and projects which relate papyrological research to the study of early Christianity. His teaching interests focus on Greek papyrology and paleography, Greek language, Hellenistic authors, and early Christian literature.

Contact

Department of Classics
1115 E. 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637

office: Wieboldt 123
tel.: 773-702-8232
email: davidm@uchicago.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Honors and Awards

  • Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant. 2009-10
  • Franke Institute for the Humanities Fellowship. 2009-10
  • Junior Fellowship, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, 1997-98
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Sept. 1995 - Sept.1996

Publications

Monographs

  • (In preparation) Greek Papyri from the University of Texas Collection.
  • P.Michigan XVI: A Greek Love Charm From Egypt (American Studies in Papyrology 30); Scholars Press, Atlanta 1991; 161 + xiii pp.
    • Reviewed by M. Huys, Bibliotheca Orientalis 61 (1994) 330-33; J. Linderski, Religious Studies Review 18 [1992] 327; S.I. Johnston, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 3 (1992) 146-49.
  • P.Michigan XIX: Baptized for our Sakes; A Leather Trisagion from Egypt (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 120); Teubner, Stuttgart-Leipzig 1999; 115 + xi pp.
    • Reviewed by D. Frankfurter, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.07.22; H. Brakmann, Oriens Christianus 84 (2000) 264-66.

Articles, Contributions to Edited Volumes, and Reviews

  • "Epiphanal Themes in Christian Liturgies on Papyrus," in Light from the East: Symposium in Celebration of the Papyrologische Kommentare zum Neuen Testament, edd. Peter Arzt-Grabner and Christina Kreinecker (to appear late summer/fall 2010)
  • "A Second-Century BC Petition concerning Trespass of Sheep" (forthcoming in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, August 2010).
  • "Some observations to P. Tex. 2" (forthcoming in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, August 2010).
  • "Fragment of an Official Letter" (forthcoming in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, August 2010).
  • "The Papyri and Early Christianity," in The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, edited by R. Bagnall (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) pp. 590-622.
  • "H. D. Betz' Mithras Liturgy: Some Papyrological and Religious Historical Perspectives." Biblical Research 49 (2004) 19-23.
  • "Magic in Apuleius, Metamorphoses," in Telling Tales: Apuleius through Time, edited by Julia Holloway and C.S. Wright (AMS Press 2000) 29-35.
  • "Records of Loan Receipts from a Guild Association (with M. Williams)," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 118 (1997) 259-263.
  • "P.Eras. I 10: An Order for Payment from a Cult Association," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 118 (1997) 263-266.
  • "A Letter Acknowledging Philanthropia," in P.Mich. Koenen: Michigan Texts Published in Honor of Ludwig Koenen (Studia Amstelodamensia 36). Edited by C. Römer, T. Gagos; assoc. ed. A.E. Hanson, P.J. Sijpesteijn (Gieben: Amsterdam 1996) 265-76.
  • " 'May she neither eat nor drink until...': Love Magic and Vows of Abstinence," in Ancient Magic and Ritual Power. Edited by M. Meyer and P. Mirecki (Leiden: E.G. Brill 1995) 335-59.
  • "A Memorandum with mouzikion and saition," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 93 (1992) 213-18.
  • "Writing in Cult and Magic in Late Antiquity," in The Beginning of Understanding: Writing in the Ancient World. Edited by M.L. Allen and T.K. Dix (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 1991) 27-29.
  • "T. Köln inv. 2 and Erotic damazein," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 83 (1990) 235-36.
  • Review of G. Luck, Arcana Mundi (Baltimore 1985), Classical Journal 84 (1988/89) 168-70.

Most Recent Courses Taught

  • Greek Thought and Literature
  • Ptolemaic Egypt
  • The Religions of Greco-Roman Egypt
  • Greek Prose Composition