CV – Malcolm Choat
Dr Malcolm Choat
Qualifications: BA(Hons) Qld (1992), PhD Macquarie (2000)
Current employment: Lecturer in Ancient History, Macquarie University, Sydney,
Australia.
Current Teaching
2007: Ptolemaic Egypt – Honours / M.A. Seminar
Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Roman World– Undergraduate (B.A.) course
Current Research Projects
 Language, Literature and Acculturation in Graeco-Roman Egypt: An
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umbrella research program, lead by Drs Malcolm Choat and Trevor Evans,
uniting projects (including those listed below) focusing on cultural interaction
of the classical and Egyptian worlds in the Graeco-Roman period.
Religious authority and linguistic change in late antique Egypt: non-elite
perspectives on the rise of monasticism in contemporary documents: ARCfunded project dealing with the rise of monasticism, seen from the point of
view of the Christian Laity, and especially though contemporary documents
on papyrus in Greek and Coptic.
The Archive of Apa Johannes: A re-edition one of the most extensive bilingual
(Greek and Coptic) monastic archives on papyrus in from fourth century CE
Egypt.
Papyri from the Rise of Christianity in Egypt: a project to analyse the papyrus
texts documenting Christianity in Egypt before the victory of Constantine
(324), a collaborative project within the Ancient History Documentary
Research Centre, to be published by Cambridge University Press.
P.Macquarie Copt.: An edition of the Coptic papyri in Macquarie University's
Museum of Ancient Cultures, with Iain Gardner, Studies in Religion,
University of Sydney
Communication Networks in Late Byzantine and Early Islamic monastic
communities: a collaborative project with Dr Heike Behlmer (Macquarie
University), analysing the letters on ostraca sent between monasteries in the
Theban region, especially the monastery of Epiphanius, monastery of Severus
(Sheikh Abd el-Qurna) and the Deir el-Bakhit and satellite monastic cells in
tombs in the Dra' Abu el-Naga
Publications
Books
Belief and Cult in fourth–century Papyri (Brepols, Turnhout: 2006).
Book Chapters
‘Citation and Echo of the New Testament in letters on Papyrus’, New Testament
Manuscripts and Their World, ed. T.J. Kraus and T. Nicklas (Brill, Leiden, 2006)
267-292. (by invitation)
‘The Unknown Work on Prophecy in the Freer Minor Prophets Codex’, The Freer
Biblical Manuscripts: Fresh Studies of the Greek Biblical Manuscripts Housed in the
Freer Gallery, ed. L. Hurtado (Atlanta, Society for Biblical Literature Publications,
2006) 87-121 (by invitation)
‘Language and Culture in Late Antique Egypt’, Blackwell’s Companion to Late
Antiquity, ed. P. Rousseau (Blackwells, Oxford, forthcoming 2007). (by invitation)
‘Early Coptic Epistolography’, The Multilingual Experience: Egypt from the Ptolemies to
the ‘Abbasids, ed. A. Papaconstantinou (American University of Cairo Press,
forthcoming 2007). (by invitation)
‘Monastic property ownership in the early period’, The Administration of Monastic
Estates in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt. In memory of Sarah Clackson, edd.
A. Boudhors, J. Clackson & P. Sijpesteijn, forthcoming. (by invitation)
Articles
(with I. Gardner) ‘P. Lond. Copt. I 1123: Another Letter to Apa Johannes?’, Zeitschrift
für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 156 (2006) 157-164.
‘Thomas the “wanderer” in a Coptic List of the Apostles’, Orientalia 74 (2005) 83-85.
(with A.Nobbs) ‘Monotheistic Formulae of Belief in Second – Fourth century AD Greek
Papyri’, Journal of Greco-Roman Judaism and Christianity 2(2001-2005) 36-51.
(with R.S. Bagnall & I Gardner), ‘O.Douch I 40’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und
Epigraphik 147 (2004) 205-207 .
(with I. Gardner), ‘O.Douch I 49’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 143 (2003)
143-146.
‘The Development and use of Terms for ‘monk’ in Late Antique Egypt’, Jahrbuch für
Antike und Christentum 45(2002) 5-23.
‘Papnouthios in SB I 2266: New man or new patron?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und
Epigraphik 133(2000) 157-162.
(with I. Gardner and A. Nobbs), ‘P.Harr. 107: Is this another Greek Manichaean letter’,
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 131 (2000) 118-124.
Contributions to: Walmsley, A. G., Karsgaard, P. and Grey, A., with contributions by M.
Choat and K. Barrett, ‘Town and Village: Site Transformations in South Jordan (The
Gharandahl Archaeological Project, Second Season Report)’, Annual of the
Department of Antiquities of Jordan 43 (1999) 459-478.
‘The Public and Private Worlds of Theophanes of Hermopolis Magna’, Bulletin of the
John Rylands Library, Manchester, forthcoming.
Papers in Published Conference Proceedings
‘Fourth Century Monasticism in the Papyri’, Akten des 23. Internationalen
Papyrologenkongresses, Wien, 22.-28. Juli 2001, ed. B. Palme (Papyrologica
Vindobonensia 1; Wien: ÖAW Verlag 2007), 95-101.
‘Philological and historical approaches to the search for the ‘third type’ of Egyptian
monk’, Coptic Studies on the Threshold of a New Millennium. Proceedings of the
Seventh International Congress of Coptic Studies. Leiden, August 27 – September 2,
2000, edd. M. Immerzeel and J. van der Vliet (Louvain 2004) II, 856-865.
(with I. Gardner), ‘Towards a palaeography of fourth century documentary Coptic’,
Coptic Studies on the Threshold of a New Millennium. Proceedings of the Seventh
International Congress of Coptic Studies. Leiden, August 27 – September 2, 2000, edd.
M. Immerzeel and J. van der Vliet (Louvain 2004) , I, 501-509.
‘The Archive of Apa Johannes: Notes on a proposed New edition’, Proceedings of the
24th International Congress of Papyrologists, Helsinki 2004 (Comm.Hum.Litt. Vol.
122, in press, forthcoming 2007), 175-183.
‘Epistolary Formulae in Early Coptic Letters’, Actes du congres du Paris, 28 juin – 3
juillet 2004, edd. N. Bosson and A. Boud’hors (ÆgMonsp 1, 2006, forthcoming
2006).
Awards and Grants
2006–2008
2003-2006
2001
1992
ARC Discovery Project Grant: ‘Religious authority and linguistic change
in late antique Egypt: non-elite perspectives on the rise of monasticism in
contemporary documents’.
Macquarie University Research Fellowship.
Australian Academy for the Humanities Travelling Fellowship.
First class Honours with University Medal, Department of Classics and
Ancient History, University of Queensland.