Articles

Books:

  The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic Authorship.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

  Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis: Demosthenes – Cicero – Paul.  Salem, OR: Polebridge Press, 2016.

    Circumcision as a Malleable Symbol. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.

Articles:

• • • “Seeking a Genuine Paul: Parousia in Pauline Epistolography” (Under Revision)

    • “Shaping Early Christianity with Letters” (Accepted for publication, The Forum, forthcoming)

    • “Nakedness in the Acts of Paul and Thecla,” The Fourth R 38, no. 2 (March-April 2025): 9–14 

    • “Anger and its Implications in Galatians.” In When Psychology Meets the Bible. Edited by Heather A. McKay and Pieter van der Zwan,   263–83. Sheffield: Phoenix Press, 2023.

    • “Constructing the History of the Church: Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History.” The Fourth R 35, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 3–8, 18.

    • “Learning from Rhetoric in the Study of Paul: Gal 1:10–20.” Forum 9, no. 1 (2020): 7–28.

    • “Is Freedom an Existential Category in Ancient Discourse?” Biblical Interpretation 27 (2019): 274–97.

    • “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.” Forum 8, no. 1 (2019): 27–40.

    • “Rhythm, Sound, and Persuasion.” In Sound Matters: New Testament Studies in Sound Mapping, edited by Margaret Lee, 193–214. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018.

    • “Which Came First, the Rhetoric or the Message?” The Fourth R 31, no. 2 (March–April 2018): 5–7, 24–26.

    • “The Christianity Seminar: A Report.” The Fourth R 27, no. 4 (July–August 2017): 12–15.

    • Preface to “Challenging Common Conceptions of Early Christianity.” Forum 4, no. 2 (2015): 105–6.

    • “Galatians.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, edited by Eric Orlin, 359. New York: Routledge, 2015.

    • “Paul, influence of.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, edited by Eric Orlin, 699–700. New York: Routledge, 2015.

    • “Romans.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, edited by Eric Orlin, 819. New York: Routledge, 2015.

    • “Women in the Authentic Letters of Paul.” Forum 4, no. 1 (2015): 43–78.

    • “The Whys and Wherefores of the New Christianity Seminar.” The Fourth R 26, no. 1 (January–February 2013): 17.

    • “Circumcision as a Means of Testing the Historicity of Acts 16:1–5.” Forum 2, no. 2 (2013): 217–30.

    • “The So-called Noahide laws.” In Acts and Christian Beginnings: The Acts Seminar Report, edited by Dennis E. Smith and Joseph B. Tyson, 75–77.  Salem, OR: Polebridge, 2013.

    • “Sounding Out the Heirs of Abraham (Rom 4:9–12).” Oral Tradition 27, no. 1 (2012): 273–90.

    • “Justin: Refining the Meaning of Christ and Christian.” The Fourth R 23, no. 2 (March–April 2010): 13–18.

    • “Theological Identity Making:  Justin’s Use of Circumcision to Create Jews and Christians.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 18, no. 1 (2010): 51–79.

    • “Paul the Philonic Jew (Philippians 3:5–21).” Annali di Storia dell’Esegesi 27, no. 2 (2010): 35–44.