Biography:
B.A. in English and Political Science, Clemson University, 1999
M.Div., Fuller Theological Seminary, 2002
Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross, 2006-2007
Assistant Professor of New Testament Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2007-2011
Associate Professor of New Testament Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2011-2019
Associate Dean for the Center for Advanced Theological Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2016-2019
Research Area(s):
Biblical Studies: Old Testament
Biblical Studies: New Testament
Research Interests:
Pauline Epistles; Economic Issues in Early Christianity; Jude and 2 Peter; Apostolic Fathers; Biblical Interpretation and Public Health in Tanzania.
Publications:
Introducing the New Testament: Its Literature and Theology. Co-authored with Joel B. Green and Marianne Meye Thompson. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans: in press.
“The Role (and Absence) of Genesis 1–4 in the Argument of 1 Clement,” in The Letter of First Clement as an Argumentative Text (ed. David du Toit and Jacob Cerone; Leiden: Brill, in press).
“Poverty and Wealth in the Catholic Epistles: A Canonical Approach,’ in Is It Good to Be Rich? Answers from Antiquity and the Bible (eds. Peter Altmann, Frank Uebersacher, and Nadine Uebersacher; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, in press).
“The Ecclesiology of the Catholic Epistles,’” in The Oxford Handbook of Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles (ed. Patrick Gray; Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press).
“Jesus the Door: Gate Christology Gospel of John and in Second Century Christianity,” in Early High Christology: John among the New Testament Writers: Essays in Honor of Marianne Meye Thompson, ed. Christopher Blumhofer, Diane Chen, and Joel B. Green (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2024), 173-83.
“‘Many Have Sold Themselves into Slavery’: Voluntary Imprisonment and Slavery in 1 Clement 55.” Pages 397-415 in Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity (ed. Bruce W. Longenecker; Waco: Baylor University Press, 2022).
“Church, Church Ministry, and Church Order,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers (eds. Michael F. Bird and Scott Harrower; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 156-74.
