Publications

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27 Publications

Forthcoming

Letteney, Mark. 2027. “Afterword: The Past, Present, and Future of Ancient Carceral Studies”. In The Materiality of Incarceration: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Edited by Niels Bargfeldt and Naomi Reiss. Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Letteney, Mark, Matthew J. Adams, Margaret Cohen, and Yotam Tepper. 2026. “The 2023 Season in the Principia and Ludus at Legio, Israel”. In Limes XXVI: Proceedings of the 26th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies Held in Batumi, Georgia (September 2024). Brepols.
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Letteney, Mark. 2026. “Prisoner Letters in the Zenon Archive”. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 63: 127–152.
Więckowski, Wiesław, Matthew J. Adams, Yotam Tepper, and Mark Letteney. 2026. “A Roman Legionary Cemetery at Legio”. In Limes XXVI: Proceedings of the 26th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies Held in Batumi, Georgia (September 2024). Brepols.

2026

Letteney, Mark. 2026. “Review of Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World, by Ellen Muehlberger”. Journal of Early Christian Studies 34 (3): 464–466. Referenced from muse.jhu.edu: Review of Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World, by Ellen Muehlberger.

2025

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Bargfeldt, Niels, Hallvard Indgjerd, Mark Letteney, Evan Levine, Rebecca Levitan, Naomi Reiss, and Matthew D. C. Larsen. 2025. “Materiality of Incarceration in Mediterranean Antiquity: The Prison Project (2023–2026)”. Early Christianity 15 (4): 545–565.
Bargfeldt et al - 2024 - Materiality of Incarceration in Mediterranean Antiquity
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Larsen, Matthew D. C., and Mark Letteney. 2025. Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration. University of California Press. doi:10.1525/luminos.239.
Larsen and Letteney - 2025 - Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration
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Letteney, Mark, Yotam Tepper, and Matthew J. Adams. 2025. “Legio — 2022”. Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel 137. Referenced from hadashot.iaa.org.il: Legio — 2022.
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Letteney, Mark, Yotam Tepper, and Matthew J. Adams. 2025. “Legio — 2023”. Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel 137. Referenced from hadashot.iaa.org.il: Legio — 2023.
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Letteney, Mark. 2025. “Review of Philosophers, Jews, and Christians in the Roman Empire: Authority, Text, and Tradition, by Leslie Kelly”. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, no. 2025.12.16. Referenced from bmcr.brynmawr.edu: Review of Philosophers, Jews, and Christians in the Roman Empire: authority, text, and tradition, by Leslie Kelly.

2024

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Marglin, Jessica, and Mark Letteney. 2024. “Legal Pluralism As a Category of Analysis”. Law and History Review 42 (2): 143–153.
Marglin and Letteney - 2024 - Legal Pluralism as a Category of Analysis

2023

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Letteney, Mark. 2023. The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009363341.
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Letteney, Mark. 2023. “Review of Centre and Periphery: Working With the Inscriptions of Iudaea Palaestina, Edited by Walter Ameling”. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, no. 2023.10.25. Referenced from bmcr.brynmawr.edu: Review of Centre and periphery: working with the inscriptions of Iudaea/Palaestina, edited by Walter Ameling.

2022

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Letteney, Mark, and Simcha Gross. 2022. “Reconsidering the Earliest Synagogue in Yemen”. Studies in Late Antiquity 6 (4): 627-50.
Letteney and Gross - 2022 - Reconsidering the Earliest Synagogue in Yemen
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Letteney, Mark. 2022. “Widening the Frame of Ancient Legal History”. ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ 46: 345–349.
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2021

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Letteney, Mark, and Matthew D. C. Larsen. 2021. “A Roman Military Prison at Lambaesis”. Studies in Late Antiquity 5 (1): 65–102.
Letteney and Larsen - 2021 - A Roman Military Prison at Lambaesis
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Shaw, Brent D., and Mark Letteney. 2021. “Iunius Saturninus: A New African Centenarian”. Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 220: 306–310.
Shaw and Letteney - 2021 - Iunius Saturninus

2019

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Adams, Matthew J., Mark Letteney, and Max T. B. Peers. 2019. “Survey and Excavations at Solomon’s Pools, Palestine: 2018 Preliminary Report”. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 151 (1): 15-35. doi:10.1080/00310328.2019.1579454.
Adams et al - 2019 - Survey and excavations at Solomon's Pools
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Larsen, Matthew D. C., and Mark Letteney. 2019. “Christians and the Codex: Generic Materiality and Early Gospel Traditions”. Journal of Early Christian Studies 27 (3): 383-415.
Larsen and Letteney - 2019 - Christians and the Codex
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Letteney, Mark. 2019. “Review of God’s Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts, by Brent Nongbri”. Journal of Late Antiquity 12 (2): 550-52.
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2018

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Berkovitz, A.J., and Mark Letteney. 2018. Rethinking ‘Authority’ in Late Antiquity: Authorship, Law, and Transmission in Jewish and Christian Tradition. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351063425.
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Berkovitz, A. J., Mark Letteney, A.J. Berkovitz, and Mark Letteney. 2018. “Authority in Contemporary Historiography”. In Rethinking ‘Authority’ in Late Antiquity, 1st ed., 1-16. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351063425-1.
Berkovitz and Letteney - 2019 - Authority in Contemporary Historiography
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Letteney, Mark, AJ Berkovitz, and Mark Letteney. 2018. “Authenticity and Authority: The Case for Dismantling a Dubious Correlation”. In Rethinking ’Authority’ in Late Antiquity: Authorship, Law, and Transmission in Jewish and Christian Tradition, 33-56. London: Routledge.
Letteney - 2018 - Authenticity and Authority
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Letteney, Mark. 2018. “Review of Die Synoden Im Trinitarischen Streit: über Die Etablierung Eines Synodalen Verfahrens Und Die Probleme Seiner Anwendung Im 4. Und 5. Jahrhundert, Edited by Uta Heil and Annette Von Stockhausen”. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, no. 2018.03.50. Referenced from bmcr.brynmawr.edu: Review of Die Synoden im trinitarischen Streit: über die Etablierung eines synodalen Verfahrens und die Probleme seiner Anwendung im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert, edited by Uta Heil and Annette von Stockhausen.
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Letteney, Mark. 2018. “Abstract: Christianizing Knowledge: A New Order of Books in the Theodosian Age”. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 63/64: 335–6. Referenced from www.jstor.org: Abstract: Christianizing Knowledge: A New Order of Books in the Theodosian Age.

2017

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Letteney, Mark. 2017. “Review of Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics, by Noel Lenski”. Ancient Jew Review 2017. Referenced from www.ancientjewreview.com: Review of Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics, by Noel Lenski.

2016

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Letteney, Mark. 2016. “Toward a New Scribal Tendency: Reciprocal Corruptions and the Text of 1 Corinthians 8:2–3”. Journal of Biblical Literature 135 (2): 391. doi:10.15699/jbl.1352.2016.3044.
Letteney - 2016 - Toward a New Scribal Tendency