Historiated Capital from Song of Songs Manuscript

Academic Interests

Jay Treat has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the history and literature of early varieties of Judaism and Christianity, with particular interests in:

• Song of Songs
• the history of interpretation
• Septuagint, Hexapla, and cognate materials
• early Gospel materials and other "evolved literature"
• relations between Jews and Christians
• computer-assisted papyrology
• rubrics and other "meta-textual" elements of ancient manuscripts
• the interplay of eroticism, asceticism, and mysticism in religion

Last modified: July 3, 1996
Jay Treat