Todd Krulak
See Also: Curriculum Vitae
Todd Krulak specializes in the religions of the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and includes in his areas of expertise the study of the New Testament and Early Christianity, Greek and Roman ritual expertise ("magic"), and Iamblichean and post-Iamblichean Platonism. The focus of his dissertation, entitled “The Animated Statue and the Ascension of the Soul: Ritual and the Divine Image in Late Platonism,” examines Late Platonists' ritual use of statues through which insight into the future is gained and their souls are emancipated from the constraints of the material world. Scholarly and teaching interests include Christian Origins, Hellenistic Judaisms, theurgy, the intersection of statues and the divine in antiquity, the cooperation and conflicts among Jewish, Christian, and Greek intellectuals in late antiquity, ancient hermeneutics (Jewish, Christian, and Greek), and Stoic and Platonist ontology and physics.
