Paper Presentations
“Shaping Early Christianity with Letters,” Westar Christianity Seminar II Spring Virtual Conference, March 2023.
“Shaping Christian Traditions with Letters,” National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, November 2022: Session: Rhetoric and Early Christianity.
“Parousia in Pauline Epistolography,” National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Virtual Conference, December 2020: Session: Rhetoric and the New Testament.
“Leading with Words: Parousia and the Rhetoric of Cicero and Paul,” Epistolary Visions of Transformational Leadership Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 30 March–1 April, 2020. (Rescheduled as Virtual: November 2020)
“The Rhetoric of Open Embedded Letters: Gr. Esther, 3 Maccabees, Revelation, and Acts,” National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2019: Session: Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative/Rhetoric and the New Testament.
“The Inference of Situational Stability in Paul’s Letters,” National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, November 2018: Session: Rhetoric and the New Testament.
“Does Paul Speak from the Heart? (Galatians 1:10–17),” Westar Spring Christianity Seminar Conference, Santa Rosa, CA, March 2018.
“The Issue of ἦθος and ἠθικός in Mark’s Gospel,” National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November 2017: Session: Rhetoric and the New Testament.
“Summary of Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis,” Westar Spring Conference, Santa Rosa, CA, March 2017.
“Is Freedom an Existential Category in Ancient Discourse?” National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, November 2016: Session: New Testament and Rhetoric.
“Difference and Similarity: A Review of Daniel Boyarin’s A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity and Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity.” National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, November 2016: Session: Westar Christianity Seminar.
“Avoiding a Hebdoian Reaction: Why the Study of the New Testament and Rhetoric Matters.” National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, November 2015. Session: Rhetoric and the New Testament.
“Evidence of Anger in Paul’s Letter to the Galatians.” International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, St. Andrews, Scotland, July 2013.
“Women in the Authentic Letters of Paul.” Westar Christianity Seminar Spring Conference, Santa Rosa, CA, March 2013.
“Paul Through the Lens of Trustworthiness.” International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2012.
“Sounding out the Meaning of Romans 4:9-12.” International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, London, England, July 2011.
“Paul, the Philonic Jew (Philippians 3:3-21).” National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 2009.
“Circumcision in Paul and Acts 16:1-5: A Systems Development Approach.” Westar Acts Seminar Fall Conference, Santa Rosa, CA, October 2008.
“Jews and the Problem of Evil: Tensions in the Valuing of Traditions.” Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Dallas, TX, March 2001.