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Lucas Van Rompay

Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
216 Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Teacher of Dogma (Rabban d-dogma) as an Academic Title in the Syriac Orthodox Church in the 8th-9th Century. · December 1, 2012 Lecture University of Malta. 11th Symposium Syriacum
Eusebius of Emesa (4th century) and his Commentary on Genesis: Between Greek and Syriac; between Judaism and Christianity. · December 1, 2012 Lecture University of Texas, Austin. Late Antiquity Workshop and Middle Eastern Studies
Aphrahat, ‘A Student of the Holy Scriptures’. The Reception of his Biblical Interpretation in Later Syriac Tradition. · December 1, 2012 Lecture Milan (Italy). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, III Dies Academicus of the Accademia Ambrosiana. Classe di studi sul Vicino Oriente.
Eusebius of Emesa's Commentary on Genesis: Between the Greek and the Syriac World · March 30, 2009 Lecture Catholic University of America, Washington DC, Center for the Study of Early Christianity
The Duke University Collection of Ethiopic Manuscripts · November 24, 2008 Lecture SBL Conference, Boston, MA
Fourth-Century Syriac Christianity: Between Jews and Marcionites · May 17, 2008 Lecture Durham, UK

Service to the Profession


Several papers refereed for Le Museon (Louvain-la-Neuve), Journal of Early Christian Studies, and Hugoye. · 2008 Editorial Activities