The Faculty of History, University of Oxford, is seeking a talented and enthusiastic researcher to join the flagship project ‘The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity’. This is an opportunity to share in a major electronic project, and to familiarise yourself with important, and so far under-used, sources. The post is full-time, fixed-term for 6 months and available from July 2018.

You will work specifically with Greek hagiographical texts to identify early texts (those which can reasonably be considered to date from before AD 700), analyse and describe their probable context (geographical and chronological), summarise their contents and write entries for our database. You will manage your own research, collaborate in the preparation of publications and represent the project and meetings and seminars.

You will have a doctorate in a relevant field (or show evidence that a doctorate is imminent) and an excellent knowledge of Greek, with an ability to work swiftly through untranslated texts.