Johnson receives FHI grant to support a collaborative project on "The Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean"

William Johnson has been awarded a Franklin Humanities Institution grant under their “Innovative Major Publications” program to fund the first of an exciting triplet of events that experiments with a new model for collaborative publication. The project has been organized under the leadership of New Testament scholar Chris Keith (St Mary’s University, Twickenham UK), Johnson himself, and Jewish Studies scholar Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg (University of Michigan), using the working title, "The Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Jews, Christians, Greeks, Romans, and Others." Duke will host the first event, a combination of manuscript workshop and short-paper conference, next October 28 . The second phase of the project will be hosted in Spring 2020 at the University of Michigan, and the third event at St Mary’s in London the following Fall.