John Ladouceur is a Ph.D. candidate in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity program. A specialist in early Christianity, his research interests center on the role of scriptural exegesis in the formation of imperial discourses in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. His dissertation project, tentatively titled “Monumental Exegesis: The Aksumite Royal Inscriptions and the Christianization of Late Antique Ethiopia,” aims to shed light on a still poorly understood ancient Christian civilization by examining the rhetorical function of biblical quotations in the Greek and Ge’ez military inscriptions of the fourth-to sixth-century kings of Aksum. [Last updated 2024]