{"id":5550,"date":"2015-05-05T13:39:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T17:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5550"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:16:53","slug":"david-frankfurter","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/profile\/david-frankfurter\/","title":{"rendered":"David Frankfurter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Frankfurter teaches in the areas of early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, early and late antique Christianity, and comparative approaches to magic, popular religion, cults of saints, and religion and violence. His publications include\u00a0<em>Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance<\/em>\u00a0(1998) and\u00a0<em>Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History<\/em>(2006), both from Princeton University Press and both winners of the American Academy of Religion\u2019s award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, as well as numerous articles on apocalyptic literature, martyrology, magic, and the Christianization of Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courses in Jewish Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Open Heaven: Apocalyptic Literature in Early Judaism and Christianity (RN 308\/608)<\/li>\n<li>Magical Texts: Literature and Practice (RN 494\/794)<\/li>\n<li>Religions of the World: Western (RN 104)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This past year, David Frankfurter published a book of selected essays with Edinburgh University Press, entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Magic, Charisma, and Violence in Late Antiquity: Essays in Religion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and a theoretical article: \u201cRitual and the Enemy Body: A New Approach to Modern Atrocity,\u201d in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comparative Studies in Society and History 67<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2025). Other articles appeared in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jewish Studies Quarterly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the new Italian journal <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quotidiana<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and several collected volumes. Prof. Frankfurter taught <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RN 105: Introduction to the World\u2019s Religions<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for both the Fall and Spring semesters. Next year, he will take a break to teach <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RN 106: Religion and Death<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as well as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JS 210: The Hebrew Bible<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JS 211: From Jesus to Christ<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7748,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15835,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5550\/revisions\/15835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}