Biography in Late Antiquity: A Quest for the Holy Man (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983)
Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994; paperback ed.,
1998)
The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays on
Imagination
and Religion (Hampshire: Ashgate
Publishing,
Ltd, 2001)
Los Sueños en la
Antigüedad Tardía, trans. María Tabuyo y
Augustin López (Madrid: Ediciones Siruela, 2002)
Il sogno nella tarda
antichità, trans. Francesco Zappa, Storia 50 (Roma:
Jouvence, 2003)
The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies:
Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography, ed. Dale B. Martin and
Patricia
Cox Miller (
Women in Early Christianity:Translations
from Greek Texts (The
Articles
"'Intricate Evasions of As': History, Imagination and Saint Basil's
Crab," in Disturbances in the Field:
Essays in Honor of David L. Miller, ed. Christine Downing (New
Orleans: Spring Journal Books, 2006), 179-91.
"Shifting Selves in Late Antiquity," in Religion and the Self in Antiquity, ed. David Brakke, Michael L. Satlow and Steven Weitzman (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005), 15-39.
"Relics, Rhetoric, and Mental Spectacles in Late Ancient Christianity," in Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ed. Giselle de Nie, Karl F. Morrison and Marco Mostert (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), 25-52.
“Visceral Seeing:The Holy Body
in Late Ancient Christianity,” Journal of Early Christian Studies
12 (2004):391-411
“Is There a Harlot in this Text?:Hagiography
and the Grotesque,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
33.3 (Fall, 2003):419-36
“’The Little Blue Flower is Red’: Relics and the Poetizing of the Body,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 8 (2000):213-36
“Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy,” in Greek Biography and Panegyrics in Late Antiquity, eds. Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), pp. 209-54
“`Differential Networks’: Relics and Other Fragments in Late Antiquity,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 6 (1998):113-38
“Jerome’s Centaur: A Hyper-Icon of the Desert,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 4 (1996):209-33.
"Dreaming the Body: An Aesthetics of Asceticism," in Asceticism, ed. Vincent Wimbush (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp.281-300.
"Desert Ascetism and `The Body from Nowhere'," Journal of Early Christian Studies 2 (1994): 137-153.
"The Blazing Body: Ascetic Desire in Jerome's Letter to Eustochium," Journal of Early Christian Studies 1 (1993): 21-45.
"The Devil's Gateway: An Eros of Difference in the Dreams of Perpetua," Dreaming 2 (1992):45-63.
"Re-imagining the Self in Dreams," Continuum 1 (1991):35-53.
"Dreams in Patristic Literature: Divine Sense or Pagan Nonsense?," StudiaPatristica 18 (1989):185-189.
"`Words With An Alien Voice':
Gnostics,
Scripture, and Canon," Journal of the
"`All the Words Were Frightful': Salvation by Dreams in the Shepherd of Hermas," VigiliaeChristianae 42 (1988): 327-338.
"Poetic Words, Abysmal Words: Reflections on Origen's Hermeneutics," in Origen of Alexandria: His World and Legacy, ed. by Charles Kannengiesser and William L. Petersen (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988), pp.165-178.
"`A Dubious Twilight': Reflections on Dreams in Patristic Literature," Church History 55 (June, 1986): 153-164.
"Pleasure of the Text, Text of Pleasure: Eros and Language
in Origen's
Commentary on the Song of Songs," Journal of the
"In Praise of Nonsense," in World Spirituality, Vol. 15: Classical Mediterranean Spirituality, ed. by A. Hilary Armstrong (New York: Crossroads/Continuum Press, 1986), pp.481-505.
"`Plenty Sleeps There': The Myth of Eros and Psyche in Plotinus and Gnosticism," in Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, ed. by Richard T. Wallis and Jay Bregman (Stony Brook: State University of New York Press, 1992), pp.223-238.
"Origen and the Bestial Imagination," in OrigenianaTertia, ed. by R.P.C. Hanson and Henri Crouzel (Rome: Edizionidell'ateneo, s.p.a., 1984), pp.48-51.
"Origen and the Witch of Endor: Toward an Iconoclastic Typology," Anglican Theological Review 66 (April, 1984): 137-147.
"The Physiologus: A Poiesis of Nature," Church History 52 (December 1983): 433-443.
"Origen on the Bestial Soul: A Poetics of Nature," VigiliaeChristianae 36 (1982): 115-140.
"`Adam Ate From the Animal Tree': A Bestial Poetry of Soul," Dionysius V (December 1981): 165-180.
"`In My Father's House Are Many Dwelling Places': ktisma in Origen's De principiis," Anglican Theological Review 62 (October 1980): 322-337.
"Micropaedia," Encyclopaedia
Britannica, 1974 (50 short articles in the areas of Old
Testament Apocrypha,
New Testament Apocrypha, and Gnosticism).
Review Essays
"Antiquity for a Postmodern Age," Continuum 1 (1990): 209-212 (review-essay of P. Chuvin, The Last Pagans).
Review-essay of The Goddess Obscured and Pagan Meditations, in Signs
13 (Summer, 1988): 866-869.