Ancient World

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Mark Letteney
Assistant Professor
Joel Thomas Walker
Associate Professor

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Related Research

Larsen, Matthew D. C., and Mark Letteney. 2025. Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration. University of California Press. Forthcoming August 2025.
Letteney, Mark. 2023. “Review of Centre and Periphery: Working with the Inscriptions of Iudaea/Palaestina.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2023.10.25.
Letteney, Mark. 2023. The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations. Cambridge University Press.
Letteney, Mark, and Simcha Gross. 2022. “Reconsidering the Earliest Synagogue in Yemen.” Studies in Late Antiquity 6 (4): 627–50.
Letteney, Mark, and Matthew D. C. Larsen. 2021. “A Roman Military Prison at Lambaesis.” Studies in Late Antiquity 5 (1): 65–102.
Shaw, Brent D., and Mark Letteney. 2021. “Iunius Saturninus: A New African Centenarian.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 220:306–10.
Larsen, Matthew D. C., and Mark Letteney. 2019. “Christians and the Codex: Generic Materiality and Early Gospel Traditions.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 27 (3): 383–415.
Adams, Matthew J., Mark Letteney, and Max T. B. Peers. 2019. “Survey and Excavations at Solomon’s Pools, Palestine: 2018 Preliminary Report.” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 151 (1): 15–35.
Letteney, Mark. 2019. “God’s Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts by Brent Nongbri (Review).” Journal of Late Antiquity 12 (2): 550–52.
Letteney, Mark. 2018. Review of Die Synoden Im Trinitarischen Streit: Über Die Etablierung Eines Synodalen Verfahrens Und Die Probleme Seiner Anwendung Im 4. Und 5. Jahrhundert, by Uta Heil and Annette von Stockhausen. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, March.