Joel Kalvesmaki

Scholarship

Monographs and Reference Works

Evagrius and His Legacy. Co-edited with Robin Darling Young. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press. Under preparation.

The Early Christian Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, forthcoming.

Guide to Evagrius Ponticus. Washington, D.C., 2012. evagriusponticus.net.

Articles

"Introducing Athena Ruby, Dumbarton Oaks' New Font for Byzantine Inscriptions." [Untitled proceedings for the epigraphy roundtable at the International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Sofia, 2011.] Forthcoming.

"Evagrius Ponticus." "Melania the Elder." "Prayer, Christian." The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

"The Epistula fidei of Evagrius of Pontus: An Answer to Constantinople." Journal of Early Christian Studies 20, no. 1 (Spring 2012): forthcoming.

"Pachomius and the Mystery of the Letters." [Untitled festschrift for Philip Rousseau.] Edited by Blake Lyerley and Robin Darling Young. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming.

"Evagrius and Chapters." To appear in Evagrius and His Legacy (see above).

"Italian versus Eastern Valentinianism?" Vigiliae Christianae 62 (2008): 79-89. Abstract, access

"Isopsephic Inscriptions from Iasos (Inschriften von Iasos 419) and Shnan (IGLS 1403)." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 161 (2007): 261-68. Index

"The Original Sequence of Irenaeus, 'Against Heresies' 1: Another Suggestion." Journal of Early Christian Studies 15, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 407-17. Abstract, access

Digital Tools

Athena Ruby. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, forthcoming. OpenType font for representing Byzantine inscriptions. This Unicode-compliant, web-open format font has about 750 characters: letters from the Latin and Greek alphabets, punctuation, and symbols. It is designed to facilitate publications in sigillography and numismatics, where variant letterforms and ligatures are critical in rendering first-order transcriptions. I am the architect and project manager.

Character inventory macro. Visual basic code for Word, intended to go through a document and list individually all the characters used. This would be especially helpful for designers who wish to determine whether the fonts they are considering can handle all the characters used.

Dissertation

Formation of the Early Christian Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in the Late Second and Early Third Century, directed by William J. McCarthy, readers Philip Rousseau, Christoph Markschies, and Susan Wessel. Dissertation awarded with distinction 18 April 2006. Available for purchase through UMI Proquest Digital Dissertations.