Colorado College Religion Department

Sarah L. Schwarz

Publications

“Reconsidering the Testament of Solomon,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 16.3 (2007): 203-237.

Review of Rewriting the Testament of Solomon: Tradition, Conflict and Identity in a Late Antique Pseudepigraphon, by Todd E. Klutz, in Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 17.1 (2007): 75-78.

Presentations

“Pseudepigrapha Among the Pagans? Exploring the Boundaries of Audience,” presented at the Function of Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Writings in Early Judaism and Early Christianity (through 3rd to 4th centuries CE) group at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, November, 2007

“Tracing Jewish Trajectories of Solomon’s Demonological Wisdom,” presented at the New College of Florida Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, March, 2006

“Orthodoxy and Efficacy: ‘Magic,’ Monks, and the Testament of Solomon,” presented at the Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism group at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, November, 2005

“Astrology as Demonology in the Testament of Solomon,” presented at the Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity group at AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, November, 2003

“Scribes and Spellbooks: Textual Transmission and the Testament of Solomon,” presented at a joint session of the New Testament Text Criticism and Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism groups at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, November, 2002

“It’s, Like, the End of the World: Evil and Apocalyptic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” presented at the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture group at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, November, 2001

Invited Lectures

“Bowls, Boundaries, and Bible: Exploring the Babylonian Incantation Bowls in the Context of Late Antique Religion,” presented at Center for Judaic Studies colloquium, University of Denver, April 2008

Chair, “Rituals of Reading,” session of the Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity group at AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, November, 2005

“Parabiblical Prosopography: The Case of Solomon the Magician,” presented at the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins, March, 2004

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