Christian Origins, The Synoptic Problem, Violence in the Ancient World, Social Context of Early Christianities

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Inventing Tradition in Thessalonica: The Appropriation of the Past in 1 Thessalonians 2:14–16,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 46.3 (2016): 123-132.

Framing Social Criticism in the Jesus Movement: The Ideological Project in the Sayings Gospel Q. WUNT II 374. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.

“Persecution in the Social Setting of Q,” Pp. 149-64 in Q in Context II: Social Setting and Archaeological Background of the Sayings Source. Edited by Markus Tiwald. BBB. Bonn University Press, 2015.

“Accounting Practices in P.Tebt. III/2 894 and Pauline Groups” (with Richard Last). Early Christianity 5.4 (2014).

“Conceptualizing Justice in Q: Narrative and Context.” Pp. 96-106 in Metaphor and Narrative in Q. Edited by Ruben Zimmerman, Michael Labahn, and Dieter Roth. WUNT I; Mohr Siebeck, 2013.

“The Rewards of Redescription: An Assessment of Burton Mack’s Influence on the Study of Christian Origins.” Pp. 69–74 in Theory and Method in the Study of Religion: Twenty Five Years On. Edited by Aaron Hughes. Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 1. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

“The Identity of Q in the First Century: Reproducing a Theological Narrative.” Pp. 177-91 in Failure and Nerve in the Study of Religion. Edited by William Arnal, Willi Braun, and Russell McCutcheon. London: Equinox, 2012.

“Does ‘Q’ Have Any Representative Potential?” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 23.1 (2011): 64–79.

“‘Why Do You Not Judge for Yourselves What Is Right?’: A Consideration of the Synoptic Relationship between Mt 5,25–26 and Lk 12,57–59,” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 86.4 (2010): 449–469.