Paul Dilley is Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions in the departments of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Iowa. His research specialty is the Religions of Late Antiquity, in particular Early Christianity, in the areas of philology and cultural history. His monograph, Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antiquity: Cognition and Discipline (Cambridge, 2017), approaches identity formation from the perspective of cognitive studies, including anthropology. He is co-editor of the Manichaean Kephalaia codex, a 360-page Coptic manuscript at the Chester Beatty Library. Dilley is also a digital humanist with interests in both manuscript imaging and enhanced text analysis, and he is co-editor of Ancient Worlds in Digital Cultures (Brill, 2016).

Location

52246

Disciplines

• Classics and Classical Studies
• Digital Humanities
• Religion

Affiliation

University of Iowa

Website

http://www.hieroilogoi.org