Research Profile

Pauline Literature, Hellenistic Judaism, Philo of Alexandria, Hellenistic Philosophy, Middle Platonism, Gnosticism

Teaching Profile

New Testament, Early Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism, Christology

Selected Publications

The Creation of Man: Philo and the History of Interpretation (Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series 14; Washington, D.C.: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1983).

Timaios of Locri: On the Nature of the World and the Soul. Introduction, Translation, and Notes (Texts and Translations 26, Graeco-Roman Religion Series 8; Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985).

Paul’s Rhetoric in Its Contexts: The Argument of Romans. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2004.

“The Prologue of John and Hellenistic Jewish Speculation,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 52 (1990), 252–69.

“Logos” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, eds. David Noel Freedman, et al.; 6 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1992) 4.348–56.

“Philo and the Sibyl: Interpreting Philo’s Eschatology” The Studia Philonica Annual 9 (1997), 84–103.

“The Beginning of Philo’s Legum Allegoriae 1,” The Studia Philonica Annual 12 (2000) 29–43.

“The World of Thought in the Philippians Hymn (Philippians 2:6–11)” in The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune, ed. John Fotopoulos (Supplements to Novum Textamentum 122; Leiden: Brill, 2006) 91–104.

“Romans,” The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament; ed. David E. Aune (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010), 398–413.

“The Importance of Hellenistic Judaism for Studying Paul’s Ethics,” in Early Christian Ethics in Jewish and Hellenistic Contexts; edited by Joseph Verheyden and Jan Willem van Henten (Studies in Theology and Religion; Leiden: Brill), 2013.

Contact

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