Associate Professor of Classics
Department of Classics and Religious Studies
University of Ottawa
70 Laurier Avenue East, Room 012
Ottawa ON, KIN 6N5
Canada
Telephone: 613-562-5800 ext. 1325
Email: jdijkstr@uOttawa.ca
Jitse Dijkstra’s research centers round the question how religion became transformed in Late Antiquity. In order to answer this question, he focuses on the particular regional and local context of religious transformation rather than on the ideological and general story. Trained as a papyrologist but multidisciplinary in approach, his main interest is Late Antique Egypt. He is currently reworking his PhD thesis, Religious Encounters on the Southern Egyptian Frontier in Late Antiquity (AD 298-642), a study of the religious transformation in the First Cataract region, southern Egypt, in particular at the island of Philae. He is also working on a monograph on the graffiti in the temple of Isis at Aswan, where he conducted field work between 2001 and 2003.
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