{"id":98,"date":"2014-06-16T15:56:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T19:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/religion\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=98"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:13:49","slug":"timothy-pettipiece","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/religion\/people\/timothy-pettipiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Pettipiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p>Assistant Professor for Carleton\u2019s College of Humanities. He received his Hon. BA in Classical Languages from the University of Guelph in 2000, and then went on to complete an MA in Religion and Culture from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2002, where he wrote a thesis on the Greek fragments of Heracleon. He received his doctorate in Religious Studies from Universit\u00e9 Laval in 2006, where he studied Coptic Manichaean literature at the Institut d\u2019\u00e9tudes anciennes. He is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the religious cultures of Late Antiquity, as well as the reception of religion and the ancient world in modern popular media.<\/p>\n<h3>Research and Teaching Interests<\/h3>\n<p>Classics and Religion<\/p>\n<p>Ancient Christian Thought \/ Patristic Studies<\/p>\n<p>Gnostic and Manichaean Studies<\/p>\n<p>Late Antiquity<\/p>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<h4>Books<\/h4>\n<p><em>Biblical and Manichaean Citations in Titus of Bostra\u2019s Against the Manichaeans: An Annotated Inventory<\/em> (w\/ P.-H. Poirier) (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 78; Brepols, 2018) 204 p<\/p>\n<p><em>Pentadic Redaction in the Manichaean Kephalaia<\/em> (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 66; Leiden: Brill, 2009) 242 p<\/p>\n<h4>Chapters<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cGnostic Theologies of Evil\u201d in <em>The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and Christianity<\/em>, James Aitken, Hector Patmore, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, eds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Homily on the Life of Jesus and His Love the Apostles\u201d in <em>New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures<\/em> Vol 2 (Eerdmanns, 2020)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVarieties of Christian Gnosis\u201d in <em>A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity<\/em> (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) Josef Lossl and\u200e Nicholas J. Baker-Brian, eds. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiblical and Manichaean Citations in Titus of Bostra\u2019s Contra Manichaeos\u201d in <em>Christianisme des origines : M\u00e9langes en l\u2019honneur du Professeur Paul-Hubert Poirier<\/em>, Eric Cr\u00e9gheur et al, eds. (Brepols, 2018)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManichaean Redaction in the Secret Book of John\u201d in <em>Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha<\/em>, Tony Burke, ed. (Wipf and Stock, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMani\u2019s Journey to India: Mission or Exile?\u201d in <em>Zur lichten Heimat: Studien zu Manich\u00e4ismus, Iranistik und Zentralasienkunde im Gedenken an Werner Sundermann. Herausgegeben von einem Team \u201eTurfanforschung\u201c<\/em> (Iranica, Band 25; Harrassowitz, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Buddha in Early Christian Literature\u201d in <em>Millennium 6\/2009: Jahrbuch zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr.<\/em> (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009).<\/p>\n<h4>Articles<\/h4>\n<p>w\/ Shane Hawkins, \u201cHammer of the gods: The heavy metal reception and reforging of Thor,\u201d <em>Metal Music Studies<\/em> 10.3 (2024): 217-232<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEastern Sages in Roman Egypt: Manichaean Trajectories Across a \u2018Global\u2019 Late Antiquity,\u201d <em>Studies in Late Antiquity<\/em> 7.1 (2023): 137-154.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManichaeism and the Revelation of the Magi: Syriac \u201cChristianities\u201d in Late Antique Mesopotamia\u201d <em>Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies<\/em> 24.2 (2021)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen in the Coptic Manichaean Homilies\u201d <em>Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture<\/em> 15 (2021): 19-36<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany Faced Gods: Triadic (Proto)Structure and Divine Androgyny in Early Manichaean Cosmogony\u201d <em>Open Theology<\/em> 1.1 (2015)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[4],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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