About
Primary research focuses on Early Judaism and the origins of Christianity, engaging with ancient conceptions of ethnicity in antiquity and applying modern theoretical and social-scientific approaches in the context of historical-critical studies of religious traditions and communities. Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PhD
Florida State University, MA
Florida State University, BA Publications
Books
Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelites. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Articles
“Ethnic Transformation and Israel’s Resurrection in the Pauline Epistles and Beyond: In Grateful Dialogue with Reviewers,” Religious Studies Review 50.3 (2024).
“Vessels of Wrath and God’s Pathos: Potter/Clay Imagery in Rom 9:19–23,” Harvard Theological Review 115.2 (2022): 197–218
“‘Rise, Kill, and Eat’: Gentiles as Animals in Early Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and Acts 10,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 42.1 (2019): 1–15.
“‘Lord Lord’: Jesus as YHWH in Matthew and Luke,” New Testament Studies 64.1 (2018): 1–19.
“‘Altered Because of Transgressions’? The ‘Law of Deeds’ in Gal 3:19a,” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 106.1 (2015): 126–35.
“What Do the Gentiles Have to Do with ‘All Israel’? A Fresh Look at Romans 11:25–27,” Journal of Biblical Literature 130.2 (2011): 371–90.
Chapters in Multi-Author Edited Volumes
“Babylon” in The Bible and Science Fiction, edited by Kelly J. Murphy and Nicole L. Tilford (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2023)
Review Articles
“Review: John Van Maaren, The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE: Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations,” Journal for the Study of Judaism (forthcoming, 2024).
“Review: František Ábel, ed., Israel and the Nations: Paul’s Gospel in the Context of Jewish Expectation,” Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations 18.1 (2023): 1–4
“Review: J. R. L. Moxon, Peter’s Halakhic Nightmare: Acts 10–11:18 in Jewish and Greco-Roman Perspective,” Reviews of the Enoch Seminar (2018)
“Review: A. Chadwick Thornhill, The Chosen People: Election, Paul and Second Temple Judaism,” Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations 12.1 (2017): 1–3
“Review: Ben C. Blackwell, John K. Goodrich, and Jason Maston, eds., Reading Romans in Context: Paul and Second Temple Judaism,” Journal of Theological Studies 67.2 (2016): 736–37
“Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (film)”. Journal of Religion and Film 15.1 (2011)
“Shadowlands, Myth, and the Creation of Meaning in Inception,” Journal of Religion and Film 14.1 (2010)
Encyclopedia Articles
“Empire” in The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, 2nd Edition (InterVarsity, 2023), 242–50
“Body of Christ” in The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, 2nd Edition (InterVarsity, 2023), 83–85
“Greek Oratory and Rhetoric” in The Encyclopedia of World History, Vol. 1 (“Ancient World, 8000 B.C.E. to 600 C.E”), (Facts on File, 2008), 173–75
“Old Kingdom (Egypt),” in The Encyclopedia of World History, Vol. 1 (“Ancient World, 8000 B.C.E. to 600 C.E”), (Facts on File, 2008), 316–17.
Pedagogical Publications
Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, test questions, and web tools to accompany Bart D. Ehrman and Hugo Méndez, The New Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction, 8th Ed. (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, test questions, and web tools to accompany Bart D. Ehrman, The Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction, 2nd Ed. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, test questions, and web tools to accompany Bart D. Ehrman, A Brief Introduction to the New Testament, 4th Ed. (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, test questions, and web tools to accompany Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 6th Ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, test questions, and web tools to accompany Bart D. Ehrman, The Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction, 1st Ed. (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, test questions, and web tools to accompany Bart D. Ehrman, A Brief Introduction to the New Testament, 3rd Ed. (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, test questions, and web tools to accompany Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 5th Ed. (Oxford University Press: 2011). Memberships
Society of Biblical Literature
Association for Jewish Studies
American Academy of Religion
Society for Classical Studies
Catholic Biblical Association
Institute for Biblical Research