SARAH E. ROLLENS, PH.D.
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Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
  • “The God Came to Me in a Dream: Epiphanies in Voluntary Associations as a Context for Paul’s Vision of Christ,” Harvard Theological Review 111.1 (2018): 41-65.
  • “Q in Matthew: A Review Essay,” The Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 15.2-3 (2017): 169-91.
  • “From Birth Pangs to Dismembered Limbs: The Anthropology of Bodily Violence in the Gospel of Mark,” Contribution to an Edited Volume on Anthropology and the Gospels edited by John S. Kloppenborg and Joseph Verheyden, Title: TBA (WUNT, forthcoming).
  • “The Anachronism of ‘Early Christian Communities’.” Contribution to edited volume on Theorizing Religion in the Ancient World. Edited by Nickolas Roubekas (forthcoming).
  • “The Kingdom of God is Among You: Prospects for a Q Community,” Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement. Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts. Early Christianity in its Hellenistic Environment 4. Leiden: Brill (forthcoming).
  •  “Q in Context and Comparison: A Response to Choi, Foster, and Arzt-Grabner,” Annali di storia dellʼesegesi 34.1 (2017): 257-63.
  •  “Why We Have Failed to Theorize Scribes in Antiquity.” Pp. 117-33 in Scribal Practices and Social Structures Among Jesus’ Adherents. Essays in Honour of John S. Kloppenborg (BETL 285; Leuven: Peeters, 2016).
  •  “Inventing Tradition in Thessalonica: The Appropriation of the Past in 1 Thessalonians 2:14–16,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 46.3 (2016): 123-132.
  • “Canons, Communities, and Christian Origins: A Response to the AJR Canon Forum,” Ancient Jew Review. January 27, 2016: http://www.ancientjewreview.com/articles/2016/1/23/ canons-communities-and-christian-origins-a-response-to-the-ajr-canon-forum
  • Review of Q, the First Writing about Jesus by Yoseop Ra. Review of Biblical Literature (forthcoming).
  • Review of At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire by Heidi Wendt. Marginalia Review of Books (http://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/marketing-religion-roman-empire/).
  • Review of The Bad Jesus: The Ethics of New Testament Ethics by Hector Avalos. Biblical Theology Bulletin 47.3 (2017): 184-85.
  • Review of Who Were the First Christians?: Dismantling the Urban Thesis by Thomas A. Robinson. Reading Religion (http://readingreligion.org/books/who-were-first-christians).
  • Review of The Nonviolent Messiah: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition by Simon J. Joseph. Interpretation 71.2 (2017): 228-29.
  • Review of City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity by Dayna Kalleres. Review of Biblical Literature (January 2017).
  • Review of John’s Use of Matthew by James Barker. Marginalia Review of Books: (http://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/new-synoptic-gospel-sarah-e-rollens-2/)
  • Review of Picturing Paul in Empire: Imperial Image, Text and Persuasion in Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles by Harry O. Maier. Biblical Theology Bulletin 46.4 (Nov 2016): 215-16.





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