Doctorate (1996), Yale University; Doctorate (1997), Zagreb University, Croatia
World Area Of Focus:
• International 25%-49% • Middle East 10%-24% • Russia/Eastern Europe Less than 10% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) 10%-24%
Languages:
• Bulgarian (limited working proficiency) • Coptic (professional proficiency) • French (professional proficiency) • German (professional proficiency) • Greek (professional proficiency) • Italian (professional proficiency) • Latin (professional proficiency) • Macedonian (elementary proficiency) • Russian (professional proficiency) • Serbo-Croatian (Serbian) (native/bilingual proficiency) • Slovenian (limited working proficiency) • Spanish (professional proficiency)
Specialization:
Early Christianity, Intellectual History of the Greco-Roman World (philosophy, religion, medicine, rhetoric), Coptic language and literature, Slavic Baroque historiography (17-18 century), Renaissance Philosophy, Rhetorical studies
Relevant Experience:
Croatia (many years), Germany (3 months), various congresses attended in Spain, Austria, Germany, Holland, France, Italy, former Yugoslavia
Distinctions:
Resident Fellow, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Goettingen (2010-2011) Editorial Board, Journal of Sufism, University of Istanbul (2009-) Director, Program in Christianity and Culture, UNC-Chapel Hill (2008-) Field Chair for New Testament and Early Christian Studies, Society for Jewish and Biblical Studies in Central Europe, (2007-) International Board for the Publication of Shenoute of Atripe (2005-) Executive Committee, Center for Late Ancient Studies, Duke University (2001-) Visiting Professor, Studia Croatica, Univ. of Zagreb (1998-1999, 2008-2015) Institute of Christian Oriental Research, CUA, Fellow 1998-1999 Visiting Fellow, Yale University 1996-1998
Whiting Dissertation Fellowship 1993-1994
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
(1) Croatian Latinists (15th to 18th ct.) (2) Latin Literature in Early Modern Europe (3) Pavao Ritter Vitezovic and Count Luigi Marsigli (4) Rhetorical Studies among the South Slavs, 16th-18th ct. (5) Ancient and Medieval Hermeneutics (6) Gnosticism and Manichaeism (7) History of Christianity (8) Coptic Language and Literature
Recent Publications:
• 2016 “Dualism in the Hermetic Writings.” In: Le dualisme: une notion caractéristique de la pensée occidentale dès son origine ou un concept issu des polémiques religieuses et simplifications critiques?, ed. Fabienne Jourdan. Chōra: revue d’études anciennes et médiévales. Numéro spécial. Paris: J. Vrin, 2016, 261-278. (in print)
• 2016 “Gnosis, Gnosticism III. Greco-Roman Antiquity.” The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 2015, vol. 10, cols. 345-348.
• 2016 On the Fringe of Commentary: Objectives and Strategies of Metatextuality in Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, ed. by Sydney H. Aufrère, Philip A. Alexander, and Zlatko Pleše. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Leuven-Paris: Peeters, 2015.
• 2016 “Hermes Trismegistos: Greco-Roman Antiquity.” The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 2015, vol. 11, cols. 878-880.
• 2016 “Appendix 1: the Ostrakon.” Co-written with Walter Cockle. In: Gwyn Davies and Jodi Magness, The 2003 – 2007 Excavations in the Late Roman Fort at Yotvata. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015, pp. 68-69.
• 2015 Evil and Its Sources in Gnostic Traditions. In: Die Wurzel allen Übels. Vorstellungen über die Herkunft des Übels und des Bösen in der Literatur des 1.-4. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Fabienne Jourdan and Rainer Hirsch-Luipold. Mohr Siebeck 2014, pp. 93-125.
• 2015 On the Fringe of Commentary: Objectives and Strategies of Metatextuality in Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, ed. by Sydney H. Aufrère, Philip A. Alexander, and Z. Plese. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Leuven-Paris: Peeters, 2015.
• 2015 Derveni-Alexandria-Qumran: Transpositional Hermeneutics in Jewish and Greek Culture (with Armin Lange). In: On the Fringe of Commentary: Objectives and Strategies of Metatextuality in Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, ed. by Sydney H. Aufrère, Philip A. Alexander, and Zlatko Pleše. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Leuven-Paris: Peeters, 2014, pp. 89-160.
• 2014 On the Fringe of Commentary: Objectives and Strategies of Metatextuality in Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, ed. by Sydney H. Aufrère, Philip A. Alexander, and Z. Plese. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Leuven-Paris: Peeters, 2014.
• 2014 The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament, ed. and trans. Bart D. Ehrman and Zlatko Plese. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• 2014 Derveni-Alexandria-Qumran: Transpositional Hermeneutics in Jewish and Greek Culture (with Armin Lange). In: On the Fringe of Commentary: Objectives and Strategies of Metatextuality in Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, ed. by Sydney H. Aufrère, Philip A. Alexander, and Zlatko Pleše. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Leuven-Paris: Peeters, 2014, pp. 89-160.
• 2014 Text between Religious Cultures: Intertextuality in Hellenistic Judaism (with Armin Lange). In: Between Text and Text: The Hermeneutics of Intertextuality in Ancient Cultures and Their Afterlife in Medieval and Modern Times, ed. by Michaela Bauks, Wayne Horowitz, and Armin Lange. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, pp. 328-350.
• 2014 Evil and Its Sources in Gnostic Traditions. In: Die Wurzel allen Übels. Vorstellungen über die Herkunft des Übels und des Bösen in der Literatur des 1.-4. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Fabienne Jourdan and Rainer Hirsch-Luipold. Mohr Siebeck 2014, pp. 93-125.
• 2010 "Derveni-Alexandria-Qumran: Divination, Allegory and Commentary in Greek and Jewish Culture" (with Armin Lange). In: Palimpsestes Deux: La literature du commentaire danse les cultures du Proche-Orient ancient et de la Mediterranee ancienne et medievale. Aix-en-Provence: Presse Universitaire, 2010
• 2010 Text between Religious Cultures: Intertextuality in Hellenistic Judaism (with Armin Lange). In: Intertextuality in Ancient Near Eastern, Ancient Mediterranean and Early Medieval Literatures, ed. M. Bauks and A. Lange. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2010
• 2010 Alexandrian Personae: Scholarly Culture and Religious Traditions in Ancient Alexandria, ed. by Z. Plese and R. Hirsch-Luipoldt. Goettingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010
• 2010 "Gnostic Dualism." In: Lange, A., E. Meyers, and R. Styers, eds. Light against Darkness: Dualism in Ancient Mediterannean Religion and the Contemporary World. Leiden: Brill, 2010, 230-251
• 2010 "Rhetoric and Exegesis in Alexandrian Scholarship." In: Hermeneutics in the Ancient World. Vienna: Institut fuer Judaistik, 2010
• 2008 The Apocryphal Gospels, ed. and trans. by Bart Ehrman and Zlatko Plese. Oxford-New York: Oxford UP, July 2010 (in press)
• 2007 Deformity (anaperia): Plutarch''s Views of Reproduction and Imperfect Generation in the Moralia and Lives. In: The Unity of Plutarch''s Work. Acts of the Seventh International Plutarch Society, ed. A. Nikolaidis. Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter, 2008, pp. 773-784.
• 2007 Fate, Providence and Astrology in Gnosticism (1): The Apocryphon of John, MHNH 7 (2007) 237-268
• 2007 Hermetic Writings, in: Cambridge Dictionary of Religion, ed. Daniel Patte. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2010 (in press)
• 2007 Gnostic Literature. In: Religioese Philosophie und philosophische Religion der frueher Kaiserzeit. Literaturgeschichtliche Perspektiven, ed. M. von Albrecht, H. Goergemanns, and R. Hirsch-Luipold. Ratio religionis Studien 1. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009, 163-198.
• 2007 Gnostic Dualism. In: Lange, A., E. Meyers, and R. Styers, eds. Light against Darkness: Dualism in Ancient Mediterannean Religion and the Contemporary World. Leiden: Brill, 2010, 230-251 (in press).
• 2006 Poetics of the Gnostic Universe: Narrative and Cosmology in the Apocryphon of John. NHMS 52. Leiden: Brill, 2006
• 2005 Platonist Orientalism. In: Historical and Biographical Values of Plutarch's Work, ed. by Perez Jimenez, A. and F. Titchener. Leuven-Madrid, 2005, 245-271
• 2001 Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli of Bologna, Pavao Ritter Vitezovic, and the Establishment of the New Ottoman-Hapsburg Borders in the wake of the piece at Karlowitz (1699). In: Croatica Christiana Periodica 24, no. 46 (2001) 49-76
• 2000 'Lamprias' 'Homage to Plato' in Plutarch's On the Decline of Oracles (427a-431a),' in:Plutarch, Plato and Aristotle. Proceedings of the International Plutarch's Society, Madrid-Cuenca, May 4-7, 1999. Madrid:Ediciones Clasicas, 2000, pp. 445-462.
• 1999 Paulus Ritter Vitezovic, Croatia Rediviva, Latin text edited and translated into Croatian by Z.P., Zagreb 1997, 2nd. ed. 1999. 1999
• 1991 John Chrystostom. 'Homily on the Resurrection and the Apostles,' ed. and transl. by Z. Plese. In:Homiletica from the Pierpont Morgan Library. Seven Coptic Homilies. Leo Depuydt, gen. editor. CSCO vol. 522:Scriptores coptici, t. 43. Louvain:Peeters, 19 1991
• 0 Rhetoric and Exegesis in Alexandrian Scholarship. In: Hermeneutics in the Ancient World. Vienna: Institut fuer Judaistik, 2010 (forthcoming)
• 0 Alexandrian Personae: Scholarly Culture and Religious Traditions in Ancient Alexandria, ed. by Z. Plese and R. Hirsch-Luipoldt. Goettingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010 (fortchoming)
• 0 Text between Religious Cultures: Intertextuality in Hellenistic Judaism (with Armin Lange). In: Intertextuality in Ancient Near Eastern, Ancient Mediterranean and Early Medieval Literatures, ed. M. Bauks and A. Lange. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010 (forthcoming)
• 0 Plato and Parmenides in Agreement: Ammonius’s Praise of God as One-Being in Plutarch’s The E at Delphi. In: Plato’s Parmenides: History and Interpretation from Speusippus to Plotinus and Later Neoplatonism (4th C BCE-6th C CE). Writings from the Greco-Roman
World. Atlanta-Leiden: SBL Publications and Brill Academic Publishers, 2010, pp. 93-113.
• 0 Derveni-Alexandria-Qumran: Divination, Allegory and Commentary in Greek and Jewish Culture (with Armin Lange). In: Palimpsestes Deux: La literature du commentaire danse les cultures du Proche-Orient ancient et de la Mediterranee ancienne et medievale. Aix-en-Provence: Presse Universitaire, 2010 (in press)
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