ACU Researcher

Areas of expertise: Early Christianity; Hellenistic Judaism; Late Antiquity

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1028-4767

Email: [email protected]

Location: ACU Melbourne Campus

Sabrina Inowlocki is a Senior Fellow Researcher at ACU, working on early Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism, and Late Antiquity. She focuses on book culture, humour, and the reception of Jewish literature in Christian texts. She is the author of Eusebius and the Jewish Authors (Brill, 2006), Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination (CUP, 2026), and, forthcoming, Pamphilus of Caesarea and Early Christian Book Culture (CUP 2027).

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Books

• Pamphilus of Caesarea and Early Christian Book Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2027.
• Ancient Apologetic Literature and the Bibliographic Imagination. Cambridge Elements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Open access, supported by ERC ROMANA. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/ancient-apologetics-and-the-bibliographic-imagination/5D5847C545D67BBFF04C2D85E1927F03]
• Eusebius and the Jewish Authors: His Citation Technique in an Apologetic Context. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 64. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Edited volumes

• With Joseph Verheyden, Collective Biography from Ancient Greece to the Early Islamic World: A Critical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2027.
• Early Christian Practices of Authorship. Special issue, Early Christianity 16.1 (2025).
• With Claudio Zamagni, Reconsidering Eusebius: A Fresh Look at His Life, Work and Thought. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
• With Baudouin Decharneux, Philon d'Alexandrie : un penseur à l'intersection des cultures gréco-romaine, orientale, juive et chrétienne. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.

Articles and chapters

• Forthcoming: "From Martyr's Testament to Polemical Anthology: Re-Reading Pamphilus' Apology for Origen," Journal of Early Christian Studies 35.2 (2027).
• "Author or Compiler? Pamphilus and the Making of Christian Authorship in Caesarea." Early Christianity 16.1 (2025): 65–88.
• "From Text to Relics: The Emergence of the Scribe-Martyr in Late Antique Christianity (4th–7th Century)." Journal of Early Christian Studies 32.3 (2024): 403–430. DOI · Open access (HAL)
• "What Caesarea Has to Do with Alexandria. The Christian Library between Myth and Reality." Scripta Classica Israelica 43 (2024): 1–19.
• "L'encre du sang des martyrs : étude d'un motif littéraire chrétien dans le De uiris illustribus de Jérôme." Latomus 83.3 (2024): 469–487.
• "Eusebius." In The Reception of Philo of Alexandria, ed. C. Friesen, D. Lincicum and D. T. Runia, 145–161. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
• "The Hand of the Slave and the Hand of the Martyr: Pamphilus of Caesarea, Autography, and the Rise of Textual Relics." Journal of Late Antiquity 16.2 (2023): 289–323.
• "Rufinus of Aquileia's Eusebian Therapeutae: A Monastic Reinterpretation of Philo's De vita contemplativa." In Looking In, Looking Out: Essays for Martin Goodman, ed. K. Czajkowski and D. Friedman, 335–361. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

Lectures

• Plenary address, North American Patristics Society, Chicago, May 2026: "Satire and Sanctity: Humour and Holiness in Early and Late Ancient Christian Texts."
• Book panel on Pamphilus of Caesarea and Early Christian Book Culture, North American Patristics Society, Chicago, May 2026, with responses from Peter Martens, Aaron Johnson, Jennifer Knust and Jeremiah Coogan.
• "L'affaire est dans le sac: The poena cullei in Martyrdom Narratives." Roman Law in Non-Legal Writings, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Munich, February 2026.
• "Jerome's De viris illustribus and the Invention of a Christian Bio-bibliographic Past." Oxford Patristics Conference, 2024.
• "From the Hand of the Slave to the Hand of the Saint: Autography in Late Antiquity." Cambridge Caucus Seminar of Ancient History, 2022.

Projects

• Josephus Christianus (2024–2028). Funder: Israel Science Foundation (ISF). Value: 1,000,000 NIS
• ChrisVirIll (2021). Funder: European Commission, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Horizon 2020) 

Appointments and affiliations

• Senior Fellow Researcher in Early Christianity (Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry (IRCI), Australian Catholic University, from 1 August 2026
• Co-Principal Investigator, Josephus Christianus (ISF-funded), with Prof. Moshe Blidstein, University of Haifa, 2024–2028
• Research Fellow, ERC Advanced Grant ROMANA (PI: Prof. Maren Niehoff), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2024–2026
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (Horizon 2020, Career Restart Panel), KU Leuven, 2021–2023
• Career break, 2010–2021: raising four children
• Assistant Professor in Ancient Judaism and Christianity, University of Lausanne, 2008–2010
• FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2005–2008
• Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2005–2006
• Associate Member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Postdoctoral Fellow, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, 2004–2005
• Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School (BAEF Fellow and Fulbright honorary fellow), 2003–2004
• PhD candidate (FNRS-funded), Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1999–2003
• M.Litt. student, St Cross College, University of Oxford, 1999–2001