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Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

Members of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

Dr Ted Kaizer

Contact Dr Ted Kaizer (email at ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Ted Kaizer is Senior Lecturer in Roman Culture and History. He was educated at Leiden (MA, 1995) and Brasenose College, Oxford (DPhil, 2000), and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (2002-2005) before coming to Durham. His main research interest is the social and religious history of the Near East in the Late Hellenistic and Roman period. He is the author of The Religious Life of Palmyra (Stuttgart, 2002) and has written articles on various aspects of religion and history of the Classical Levant. His present research project concerns a study of the social patterns of worship at Dura-Europos, a fortress town on the Middle Euphrates, and in this context he is also preparing two historiographical volumes (in the Bibliotheca Cumontiana) for the Academia Belgica and the Belgian Historical Institute (Rome). He has been awarded a Sir Derman Christopherson/Sir James Knott Foundation Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study of Durham University for Michaelmas Term 2013. He has widely travelled through the Middle East, and is a Member of Council of the Council for British Research in the Levant. 

Areas of Doctoral Supervision

Most areas and periods of Roman culture and history, especially social and religious history in the imperial period, and in particular of the provinces in the eastern half of the empire.

Current PhD Students

  • Linda Challis, The Roman Way of Welfare
  • Chiara Grigolin, Memories (and pseudo-memories) of Seleucid origins in Seleucid foundations
  • Donald MacLennan, Administrative Development in the 'Client States' of the Near East under the Aegis of Rome, 63 BC - AD 224
  • Seb Nichols, 'The Gods of the Peoples are Idols' (Ps. 96:5): Paganism and Idolatry in Near Eastern Christianity
  • Rik van Wijlick, Near Eastern Kingdoms and the Roman Empire in the Civil War of 44-31 BC

Past Research Students

  • Polly Weddle, Touching the Gods: Physical Interaction with Cult Statues in the Roman World (PhD 2010)
  • Peter Alpass, The Religious Life of Nabataea (PhD 2011)
  • Jennifer Wilkinson, Mark and his Gentile Audience. A Traditio-Historical and Socio-Cultural Investigation of Mk 4.34-9.29 and its Interface with Gentile Polytheism in the Roman Near East (PhD 2012 - co-supervised with Dept. of Theology & Religion)

Research Interests

  • Local identities in the Classical Levant
  • Religions in the Graeco-Roman world
  • Social and religious history of the Roman Near East

Publications

Articles: review

  • Kaizer, Ted. (2009). Forschungsbericht Römische Religion (2006-2008): 4.6 Orient [2003-2008]. Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 11: 359-365.
  • Kaizer, Ted. (2008). Old and new discoveries at Palmyra. Journal of Roman Archaeology 21: 652-664.
  • Kaizer, Ted (2003). The Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods between local, regional and supra-regional approaches. Scripta Classica Israelica 22: 283-295.

Books: authored

Books: edited

Edited sources

Essays in edited volumes

Journal papers: academic

Journal papers: popular

  • Kaizer, Ted (2009). Hatra: temples, dieux et cultes. Les Dossiers d’Archéologie 334: 34-39.
  • Kaizer, Ted (2006). Mithras, or ‘the passion of the bull-slayer’. Omnibus 52: 27-29.
  • Kaizer, Ted (2005). Ein Haus der Götter: Kulte und Religion in der Karawanenstadt Palmyra. Welt und Umwelt der Bibel 36(2): 30-35.



GRADUATE STUDENTS

Archaeology

Classics and Ancient History

Physics

Theology and Religion