Courtney Friesen

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Friesen, C. (2018). Envisioning God in the Humanities: Essays on Christianity, Judaism, and Ancient Religion in Honor of Melissa Harl Sellew.. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.

Chapters

• Friesen, C. (2023). Tragödie. In Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum. Franz Joseph Dölger-Institut zur Erforschung der Spätantike.
• Friesen, C. (2020). Attending Euripides: Philo of Alexandria’s Dramatic Appropriations. In Euripides-Rezeption in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike. Berlin: de Gruyter.
• Friesen, C. (2020). Heracles between Slavery and Freedom: Subversive Textual Appropriation in Philo of Alexandria.. In Reading Other Peoples’ Texts: Social Identity and the Reception of Authoritative Traditions. London: Bloomsbury.
• Friesen, C. (2018). Gluttony and Drunkenness as Jewish and Christian Virtues: From the Comic Heracles to Christ in the Gospels. In Envisioning God in the Humanities: Essays on Christianity, Judaism, and Ancient Religion in Honor of Melissa Harl Sellew(pp 243-61). Eugene: Wipf and Stock.
• Friesen, C. (2018). Introduction: An Appreciation. In Envisioning God in the Humanities: Essays on Christianity, Judaism, and Ancient Religion in Honor of Melissa Harl Sellew(pp xv–xxi). Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.

Journals/Publications

• Friesen, C. (2017). “Virtue and Vice on Stage: Philo of Alexandria’s Theatrical Ambivalences.”. Journal of Ancient Judaism, 8, 241-56.
• Friesen, C. (2017). Birthing the Children of God: Echoes of Theogony in Romans 8.19–23. New Testament Studies, 63.
• Friesen, C. (2016). Dying Like a Woman: Euripides’ Polyxena as Exemplum between Philo and Clement of Alexandria. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 56, 623-45.
• Friesen, C. (2015). Hannah’s ‘Hard Day’ and Hesiod’s ‘Two Roads’: Poetic Wisdom in Philo’s De ebrietate.. Journal for the Study of Judaism, 46, 44-64.
• Friesen, C. (2014). Dionysus as Jesus: The Incongruity of a Love Feast in Achilles Tatius’s Leucippe and Clitophon 2.2.. Harvard Theological Review, 107, 222-40.
• Friesen, C. (2013). Extirpating the Dragon: Divine Combat and the Minus of LXX Isaiah 51:9b.. Journal of Ancient Judaism, 4, 334-51.

Presentations

• Friesen, C. (2020, November). From Theatron to Synthronon: Performance and Ritual in Classical and Byzantine Greece. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Boston: American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature.
• Friesen, C. (2018, November). Philo of Alexandria and the Masks of Heracles. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Denver, CO: Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion.
• Friesen, C. (2017, April). Attending Euripides: Philo of Alexandria’s Dramatic Appropriations. Euripides-Rezeption in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike - The Reception of Euripides in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity. University of Göttingen. April 1, 2017. University of Göttingen.
• Friesen, C. (2016, November). Birthing the Children of God: Echoes of Theogony in Romans 8:22. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX: Society of Biblical Literature.

Reviews

• Friesen, C. (2021. Review of Filip Doroszewski and Dariusz Karłowicz (eds.), Dionysus and Politics: Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World(pp n/a).
• Friesen, C. (2021. Review of Catherine Conybeare and Simon Goldhill (eds.), Classical Philology and Theology: Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar(pp 582-85).
• Friesen, C. (2021. Review of Paul M. Blowers, Visions and Faces of the Tragic: The Mimesis of Tragedy and the Folly of Salvation in Early Christian Literature(pp n/a).
• Friesen, C. (2020. Review of Jennifer Eyl, Signs, Wonders, and Gifts: Divination in the Letters of Paul(pp 130-132). Religion.
• Friesen, C. (2018. Review of Maren R. Niehoff, Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography(pp 777–81). Oxford.
• Friesen, C. (2017. David Stuttard (ed.), Looking at Bacchae, Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

Others

• Friesen, C. (2020, n/a). The Greek Language. The Biblical World. 2nd ed. Edited by Katharine J. Dell. London: Routledge, forthcoming..
• Friesen, C. (2018, November). Envisioning God in the Humanities: Studies in Honor of Melissa Harl Sellew, Presider and Organizer. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting.
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  Organized and presided over a special session honoring a retiring faculty and launching a Festschrift in her honor.