Above: 13 students who went to Rome with me to take my course on “The Urban World of the First Christians” (Summer 2019)

​Recent Publications:
  • “The Viability of Materialist Approaches to Persecution: Revelation as a Test Case,” Annali di Storia dell’Esegesi 36.1 (2019) 71-89.​
  • “The Anachronism of ‘Early Christian Communities’.” Pp. 307-24 in Theorizing ‘Religion’ in Antiquity (ed. Nickolas Roubekas; London: Equinox, 2018).
  • “Troubling the Retainer Class,” Pp. 169-90 in Class Struggle in the New Testament (ed. Robert Myles; Lanham, MD; Lexington Books, 2019).
  • “If Discourse is All There Is: On Studying Religion in the Ancient Context,” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 47:2 (2018): 8-10.
  • “From Birth Pangs to Dismembered Limbs: The Anthropology of Bodily Violence in the Gospel of Mark.” Pp. 53-68 in The Gospels and Their Stories in Anthropological Perspective (ed. John S. Kloppenborg and Joseph Verheyden; WUNT 409; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018).
  •  “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, 2018), 224-41.
  • “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. 
  • “JIGRE 125: Renewal of a Grant of Asylum” in Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt, Vol. 3 of Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, Commentary. Edited by John S. Kloppenborg. BZNW Vol 181c; Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2018.
  •  “P.Oxy. IX 1205: Manumission of a Slave by an Association” in Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt, Vol. 3 of Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, Commentary. Edited by John S. Kloppenborg. BZNW Vol 181c; Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2018.
  • “P.Petaus 28: A Letter about Corpse Transport” in Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt, Vol. 3 of Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, Commentary. Edited by John S. Kloppenborg. BZNW Vol 181c; Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2018.
  • “IFayum III 204: Dedication of a statue by a synodos” in Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt, Vol. 3 of Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, Commentary. Edited by John S. Kloppenborg. BZNW Vol 181c; Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2018.
  • “P.Tebt. III/2 894: Club Account” (written with Richard Last) in Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt, Vol. 3 of Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, Commentary. Edited by John S. Kloppenborg. BZNW Vol 181c; Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2018.
  • Review of Women in the Story of Jesus: The Gospels through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters by Marion Anne Taylor and Heather E. Weir, eds. Biblical Theology Bulletin 49.2 (2019): 110–111.
  • Review of Jesus Followers in the Roman Empire by Paul B. Duff. Review of Biblical Literature (February 2019).
  • Review of Q, the First Writing about Jesus by Yoseop Ra. Review of Biblical Literature (March 2018).
  • Review of Paul: An Anomalous Jew by Michael Bird. Journal of Theological Studies (2018)