New Testament; Christian origins; Hellenistic Greek; textual criticism; Papias of Hierapolis
Early Christianity; late-antique and medieval history; ancient philosophy; Classical to Byzantine cultural and intellectual history; history of emotions; history of violence; Classical receptions
Gospels and Acts (New Testament and non-canonical); Second Temple Judaism; apocalypses; historiography; reception history; disability studies; feminist biblical interpretation
Pauline literature; early Christian gospels; New Testament reception; early Christian interpretation; hermeneutics
Late-antique and Byzantine hymnography and homiletics; Byzantine liturgy; late-antique cultural interactions; late-antique history and historiography; religious conflict; history of emotions
Latin epistolography; historiography; panegyric
Latin literature; early Christianity; literary history; exemplarity and canonicity; imperialism and local identity
late Roman army; religion in late antiquity; politics in late antiquity; Roman history; Roman numismatics; Roman imperial politics
Religious ethics; Continental philosophy; philosophy of religion; political theology; gender and sexuality; early Christian thought
New Testament studies; ancient languages (Greek, Hebrew, Latin); Greek lexicography; numismatics; papyrology; epigraphy
Historical theology; Germanic philology; encyclopaedic theology; Gothic; theology & the arts; JRR Tolkien
Biblical, Second Temple and Christian literature and its archaeological and cultural context; the history of Judaea/Palestine within the Graeco-Roman period; Second Temple Judaism, especially Josephus, Philo of Alexandria and other Jewish writers of the Hellenistic and Roman periods; the Dead Sea Scrolls in their archaeological and cultural environment; the historical figures of Jesus, John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, Pontius Pilate; the archaeology and history of Christian holy places, site identifications, Christian geography and travel to Palestine; women, gender and sexuality within Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity and the Graeco-Roman world; reception studies of the Bible in television, theatre, literature and film; the representation of Jesus in western art; ancient dress and textile archaeology.
Jason Bryan-Brown
Emily Fero-Kovassy
Malki Malki
Haydn Lea
James McCollum
Austin Steen
Grant Sutherland
Rev. Thomas Pietsch
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