Benjamin Hansen

Peer Reviewed Articles

• “A Makeshift Apocalypse: The Rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple from Julian to ‘Abd al- Malik,” Studies in Late Antiquity 8 (2024): 208-241.
   
• “Making Christians in the Umayyad Levant: Anastasius of Sinai and Christian Rites of Maintenance,” Studies in Church History 59 (2023): 98-118.
   
• “Bread in the Desert: The Politics and Practicalities of Food in Early Egyptian Monasticism,” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 90, no. 2 (2021): 286-303.
   
• “The Martyrs and their Master: Persecution, Christ and Christian Witness in Lactantius,” Studia Patristica 127, no. 24 (2021): 217-234.
   
• “Preaching to Seneca: Christ as Stoic Sapiens in Divinae Institutiones IV” Harvard Theological Review 111, no. 4 (2018): 541-558.

Book Reviews

• Review of Rapp, Claudia and Andreas Külzer, eds. The Bible in Byzantium: Appropriation, Adaptation, Interpretation (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2019) in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 89, no. 1 (2020): 166-7.
   
• Review of Geffert, Bryn and Theofanis G. Stavrou, eds. Eastern Orthodox Christianity: The Essential Texts (Yale University Press, 2016) in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 86, no. 3 (2017): 841-2.
   

Encyclopedia Entries

• “Origenism/The Origenist Controversy” in The Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (Leiden: Brill, 2024). 
   
• “Christian Persecution,” in Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Vol. I: Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Holt, Andrew, ed. (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 144-146.
   
• “Byzantine Understandings of the Arab Conquests,” in Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present. Vol. I: Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Holt, Andrew, ed. (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 188-189.