Nathan H. Levine

Nathan Levine is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland. He received his B.A. in Classics from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Levine’s research focuses on Homer and Homeric receptions, Hellenistic Judaism, and histories of books and textual scholarship. His current book project, Homer & the Bible: Orality, Writtenness, & the History of Texts, offers a critical history of the concept of orality in the classical and biblical traditions from antiquity to the present.

Professor Levine teaches a range of courses from Greek and Latin language to the Homeric epics, book history, and Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman world. He also enjoys offering lectures and courses on the ancient world to the broader community.

Publications:

“Sacro-Legal Exegesis of Vergil in Late Antiquity.” Studies in Late Antiquity 8.4 (2024): 534–558.

“Epigraphy in the Manuscript Tradition: Interpreting the Match between IG I³ 83 and Thucydides 5.47.” Journal of Epigraphic Studies 7 (2024): 51–84.

Co-edited with Richard N. Levine. Edward Conze’s The Psychology of Mass Propaganda. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Co-authored with Flavio Santini. “Psenkebkis, Son of Pakebkis: New and Old Documents from the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri at The Bancroft Library.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 59 (2022): 61–83.

“A Charybdis of Obscurity: Punctuating Thucydides in Byzantine Manuscripts.” Manuscripta 65.1 (2021): 1–70.

“Barlaam and Josaphat.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, vol. 2: Lives (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Band 29), ed. Jonathan A. Silk. Leiden: Brill, 2019: 39–46.