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Mark Letteney
Mark Letteney is a historian of Late Antiquity, focusing on intellectual developments attendant to the rise of imperial Christianity. He is also an archaeologist, co-directing the first excavations of the Pools of Solomon in Palestine and excavating the Roman 6th Legion army base in Israel.
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![Palestinian Expedition Quarterly](https://authors.taylorandfrancis.com/images/articles_detail/articles/i3823v1-solomons-pools-archaeological-project-a-preliminary-report-on-the-lower-pool.jpg?rid=66a449d3474d9)
Solomon's Pools Archaeological Project: A Preliminary Report on the Lower Pool
Published: Jul 05, 2018 by Palestinian Expedition Quarterly
Authors: Mark Letteney and Matthew J. Adams
Subjects:
Archaeology
This article offers a preliminary archaeological report on the first excavations of the Pools of Solomon, carried out during the 2017-8 season and directed by Matthew J. Adams and Mark Letteney. Forthcoming Winter 2018.
![Rethinking 'Authority' in Late Antiquity: Authorship, Law, and Transmission in Jewish and Christian Tradition](https://authors.taylorandfrancis.com/images/articles_detail/articles/i3820v1-authenticity-and-authority-the-case-for-dismantling-a-dubious-correlation.jpg?rid=66a449d34f450)
Authenticity and authority: the case for dismantling a dubious correlation
Published: Jun 05, 2018 by Rethinking 'Authority' in Late Antiquity: Authorship, Law, and Transmission in Jewish and Christian Tradition
Authors: Mark Letteney
Subjects:
Religion, History
This chapter considers two divergent streams of tradition, both of which confound a simple correlation between notions textual authenticity and authority in Late Antiquity.
![Journal of Early Christian Studies](https://authors.taylorandfrancis.com/images/articles_detail/articles/i3824v1-christians-and-the-codex-generic-materiality-and-early-gospel-traditions.jpg?rid=66a449d357318)
Christians and the Codex: Generic Materiality and Early Gospel Traditions
Published: Jun 04, 2018 by Journal of Early Christian Studies
Authors: Mark Letteney and Matthew D. C. Larsen
Subjects:
Religion, History
This article offers a new approach to one of the oldest questions in book history: why do Christians prefer the codex. We offer the concept of "generic materiality," which connects genre with material format, as the starting point for a provocative new solution. Forthcoming Fall 2019.
![Rethinking ‘Authority’ in Late Antiquity: Authorship, Law, and Transmission in Jewish and Christian Tradition](https://authors.taylorandfrancis.com/images/articles_detail/articles/i3821v1-authority-in-contemporary-historiography.jpg?rid=66a449d35f0b1)
Authority in contemporary historiography
Published: Jun 04, 2018 by Rethinking ‘Authority’ in Late Antiquity: Authorship, Law, and Transmission in Jewish and Christian Tradition
Authors: Mark Letteney and AJ Berkovitz
Subjects:
Religion, History
This chapter explores the place of "authority" as a category of historical analysis, and argues that historians would be well served to move "beyond authority" in historical methodology.
![Bryn Mawr Classical Review](https://authors.taylorandfrancis.com/images/articles_detail/articles/i3822v1-review-of-uta-heil-and-annette-von-stockhausen-eds-die-synoden-im-trinitarischen-streit-ber-die-etablierung-eines-synodalen-verfahrens-und-die-probleme-seiner-anwendung-im-4-und-5-jahrhundert.jpg?rid=66a449d366d1a)
Review of Uta Heil and Annette von Stockhausen (eds.), Die Synoden im trinitarischen Streit: Über die Etablierung eines synodalen Verfahrens und die Probleme seiner Anwendung im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert
Published: Mar 01, 2018 by Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Authors: Mark Letteney
Subjects:
Religion, History
Review of Review of Uta Heil and Annette von Stockhausen (eds.), Die Synoden im trinitarischen Streit: Über die Etablierung eines synodalen Verfahrens und die Probleme seiner Anwendung im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert (De Gruyter, 2017)
![Ancient Jew Review](https://authors.taylorandfrancis.com/images/articles_detail/articles/i3819v1-review-of-noel-lenski-constantine-and-the-cities.jpg?rid=66a449d36ea0d)
Review of Noel Lenski Constantine and the Cities
Published: Oct 09, 2017 by Ancient Jew Review
Authors: Mark Letteney
Subjects:
Religion, History
Review of Noel Lenski's _Constantine and the Cities_ (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
![Journal of Biblical Literature](https://authors.taylorandfrancis.com/images/articles_detail/articles/i3818v1-toward-a-new-scribal-tendency-reciprocal-corruptions-and-the-text-of-1-corinthians-82-3.jpg?rid=66a449d376a7c)
Toward a New Scribal Tendency: Reciprocal Corruptions and the Text of 1 Corinthians 8:2–3
Published: Jun 01, 2016 by Journal of Biblical Literature
Authors: Mark Letteney
Subjects:
Religion, History
This article demonstrates that there are strong intrinsic and transcriptional grounds to posit the priority of the “shorter text” of 1 Cor 8:2–3 and explores the grounds for the longer text’s appearance in the context of a developing early Christian interest in divine reciprocity in love and knowledge.