Christine Shepardson is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is author of Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy and Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem’s Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria.

• Contents  AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNotes on Translation and TransliterationChronology of Key DatesList of Key FiguresMaps  Introduction: An Imperial Church in Turmoil1. Historical Foundations: Social Networks and Regional Diversity2. Genealogies of Orthodoxy: Remembering the Saints3. Genealogies of Heresy: Remembering Nestorius and Chalcedon4. Victims of Violence: Narratives of Suffering and Persecution5. Suffering Now or Later: Prophecy and the Final Judgment6. Ritual Flash Points: Performing Radical Difference7. Give It Up for God: John of Ephesus and the Later Sixth Century  BibliographyIndex

Christine Shepardson is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is author of Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy and Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem’s Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria.

• Contents  AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNotes on Translation and TransliterationChronology of Key DatesList of Key FiguresMaps  Introduction: An Imperial Church in Turmoil1. Historical Foundations: Social Networks and Regional Diversity2. Genealogies of Orthodoxy: Remembering the Saints3. Genealogies of Heresy: Remembering Nestorius and Chalcedon4. Victims of Violence: Narratives of Suffering and Persecution5. Suffering Now or Later: Prophecy and the Final Judgment6. Ritual Flash Points: Performing Radical Difference7. Give It Up for God: John of Ephesus and the Later Sixth Century  BibliographyIndex

Christine Shepardson is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is author of Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy and Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem’s Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria.

• Contents  AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNotes on Translation and TransliterationChronology of Key DatesList of Key FiguresMaps  Introduction: An Imperial Church in Turmoil1. Historical Foundations: Social Networks and Regional Diversity2. Genealogies of Orthodoxy: Remembering the Saints3. Genealogies of Heresy: Remembering Nestorius and Chalcedon4. Victims of Violence: Narratives of Suffering and Persecution5. Suffering Now or Later: Prophecy and the Final Judgment6. Ritual Flash Points: Performing Radical Difference7. Give It Up for God: John of Ephesus and the Later Sixth Century  BibliographyIndex