Courses by instructor: Robert Gregg

Robert Gregg – Professor Robert Gregg is the Teresa Hihn Moore Professor in Religious Studies (emeritus) at Stanford University, and served until June 2009 as Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. After fifteen years as a faculty member at Duke University, Gregg joined Stanford’s departments of Religious Studies and Classics in 1987, serving also from1987-1999 as Dean for Religious Life at the university. His scholarship includes a book on philosophies concerning death and grieving in ancient Greek, Roman, and Christian communities; two volumes on struggles over orthodoxy and heresy in 4th century Christianity, a translation of Athanasius’ Greek “Life of Saint Antony”—the famous account of his activities as one of the first desert monks; and a study of 250 Greek, Hebrew/Aramaic, and Latin inscriptions from the Golan that allow glimpses of interactions between Jews, “pagans,” and Christians in the Golan Heights and Syria, in the 1st-7th centuries CE. Professor Gregg's current project treats several “sacred stories” which appear both in the Bible and in the Qur’an, examining their interpretations by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim writers and graphic artists in each of the religions’ early centuries.