Curriculum vitae.

Education.

Ph.D., Religious Studies, The University of Virginia (2014)
     Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity
      Examination Areas: New Testament and Early Christianity (Major); Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism (Minor); Rabbinics; Patristics; and Graeco-Roman Culture (Auxiliary)
     Dissertation: Unseeing the Shown, Showing the Unseen: The Images of John’s Apocalypse and the Visual Culture of Ancient Asia Minor
     Supervisors: Judith Kovacs and Martien Halvorson-Taylor; Examining Committee: Harry Gamble, Greg Goehring, and Tyler Jo Smith
Th.M., New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary (2005)
M.Div., Candler School of Theology, Emory University (2004)
B.A. (magna cum laude), Coe College (2001)
     Religion; Music

Publications.

Book.

The Book of Revelation and the Visual Culture of Asia Minor: A Concurrence of Images (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press/Fortress Academic, 2019).

This book argues that the imagery of John's Apocalypse resembles ancient visual culture insofar as it is meant to be "seen," though not because it is borrowing directly from the material religious culture of  the cities of Asia Minor. While there is a resonance between the images of Revelation and Asian statuary, numismatic iconography, and monumental  ensembles, the imagery of Revelation takes its place in the rhetoric of the era, working on the imagination of the book's audiences through its vivid, ekphrastic language.

The book has been reviewed in Journal of Theological Studies, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Bible Today, Religious Studies Review, and Expository Times.

Articles and Book Chapters.

“On the Existence of the Encratites,” in Studia Patristica CXXIV, Vol. 21, ed. M. Vinzent (Leuven: Peeters, 2021), pp. 55-66.

“A Local Habitation and a Name: On the Images of John’s Apocalypse,” Biblical Research 63 (2018), pp. 1-22.

“Job and the ‘Mystic’s Solution’ to Theodicy: Philosophical Paideia and Internalized Apocalypticism in the Testament of Job,” in Pedagogy in Ancient  
    Judaism and Early Christianity, ed. Matthew Goff, Karina Martin Hogan, and Emma Wasserman (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017), pp. 215-39.

“Motivations for Encratite Practices in Early Christian Literature,” Journal of Theological Studies 65/2 (2014): 515-49.

“Apocalypse Ellipsis: A Response to Shannon Smythe,” in Karl Barth in Conversation, ed. W. Travis McMaken and David Congdon (Eugene, OR:  Wipf &
     Stock, 2014), pp. 210-15.

Book Reviews.

Several reviews, especially of biblical research, in the Review of Biblical Literature, Modern Believing, The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, and Reading Religion.

Papers Presented.

“The Missing Image: Imagining the Divine in the Book of Revelation, Other Jewish Visionary Texts, and their Material Environments,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 29-December 10, 2020.

“Paul, the Pastorals, and Encratite Origins,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 29-December 10, 2020.

“On the Existence of the Encratites,” Oxford Patristics Conference, August 19-25, 2019.

“Toxic Femininity: Enkrateia and Gender in Christian Apocryphal Literature,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 17-20, 2018.

“Tracking Myth Across Media: The Case of the Book of Revelation,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 18-21, 2017.

“What is an Apocalyptic Author? The Book of Revelation as Pseudepigraphon,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 19-22, 2016.

“Faith without Works is…Apocalyptic? Apocalyptic Wisdom Between James and Paul,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 21-24, 2015.

“Experiencing the Divine in John’s Apocalypse:  Image, Medium, and Body,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 23-26, 2013.

“The Throne of Satan, the Throne of God, and the Great Altar of Pergamon,” Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity Colloquium, The University of Virginia, October 24, 2013.

“Job and the ‘Mystic’s Solution’ to Theodicy:  Paideia and Internalized Apocalypticism in the Testament of Job,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 16-20, 2012.

Invited Lectures.

“Politics and the Apocalyptic Imagination,” All Saints’ Lecture Series, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Chicago, November 21, 2019.

“Apocalypse and the Political,” Brentsday Lecture, Brent House at the University of Chicago, November 20, 2019.

“Imagining the Apocalypse,” Brentsday Lecture, Brent House at the University of Chicago, May 1, 2019.

“The Development of the Biblical Canon,” a two-part lecture, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Chicago, September 23 & 30, 2019.

“A Local Habitation and a Name: On the Images of John’s Apocalypse,” Chicago Society of Biblical Research, Spring Meeting, April 7, 2018.

“Seeing the Book of Revelation,” a series of three lectures, St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Annandale, Virginia, March 2015.

“The Book of Revelation and the Art of Asia Minor,” Leidecker Center for Asian Studies, The University of Mary Washington, March 18, 2013.

Courses Taught.

“Acts: Imagining the Early Church”: McCormick Theological Seminary, Spring 2017

“The Book of Revelation and its Legacies”: McCormick Theological Seminary, Spring 2016

“Found in Translation: How Words Inform”: Virginia Theological Seminary, Fall 2014
 
“Hebrew Bible II: The Writings of the Prophets and the Sages”: Bexley Seabury Seminary, Summer 2021
 
“Interdisciplinary Approaches to Liberal Studies”: Oakland University, Fall 2021
 
“Introduction to Christian Thought”: The University of Mary Washington, Spring 2013
 
“Introduction to the New Testament”: The University of Detroit Mercy, Winter 2022
 
“Introduction to Theology and the Practice of Ministry”: Virginia Theological Seminary, Spring 2015 (co-instructor)
 
“Jesus within Judaism” (Jesus and the Gospels): Lutheran School of Theology, Spring 2020 and Spring 2019 (online), Fall 2015; crosslisted with McCormick Theological Seminary, Spring 2018 and Spring 2017 (with Ph.D. section).
 
“New Testament Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Tutorial” (non-credit): Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Summer 2017

“Paul’s Life, Letters, and Legacy”: Lutheran School of Theology, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, and Fall 2018 (online); crosslisted with McCormick Theological Seminary, Fall 2016 (with Ph.D. section).
 
“Politics and Empire in the New Testament”: McCormick Theological Seminary, Fall 2017 (with Ph.D. section)
 
“Religion in Western Civilization”: Iowa Wesleyan College, Summer and Fall 2006

“The Rise of Christianity”: University of Detroit Mercy, Fall 2021
 
“Studies in Suffering and Evil”: The University of Mary Washington, Spring 2013; Oakland University, Winter 2022
 
“Visual Art and Interpretation of the Gospels”: Virginia Theological Seminary, June 2015 (online)