Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity.

Selected Publications:

"The Afterlives of New Testament Apocrypha," Journal of Biblical Literature 134.2 (2015) 401-25 [PDF]

“Textuality between Death and Memory: The Prehistory and Formation of the Parabiblical Testament,” Jewish Quarterly Review 104.3 (2014): 381-412 [PDF]

“2 Enoch and the Trajectories of Jewish Cosmology: From Mesopotamian Astronomy to Greco-Egyptian Philosophy,” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 22.1 (2014): 1-24 [PDF]

“From Sacrifice to the Slaughterhouse: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on Meat, Ritual, and Civilization,” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 26.2 (2014): 111-58 [PDF]

(ed. with N. Dohrmann) Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire: The Poetics of Power in Late Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. [TOC and introduction online]

(ed. with R. S. Boustan, K. Herrmann, R. Leicht, and G. Veltri, with A. Ramos) Envisioning Judaism: Essays in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, 2 volumes. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. [more information]

“Jewish Christianity,” in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Biblical Studies, 2011. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195393361-0032

“The Modern Invention of ‘Old Testament Pseudepigrapha,’” Journal of Theological Studies 60.2 (2009): 403–36. [PDF]

“The Construction and Subversion of Patriarchal Perfection: Abraham and Exemplarity in Philo, Josephus, and the Testament of Abraham,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 40.2 (2009): 185–212. [PDF]

“Beyond the Land of Nod: Syriac Images of Asia and the Historiography of ‘the West’,” History of Religions 49.1 (2009): 48–87. [PDF]

“Pseudepigraphy, Authorship and the Reception of 'the Bible' in Late Antiquity,” in The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity, ed. L. DiTommaso and L. Turcescu, The Bible in Ancient Christianity 6; Leiden: Brill, 2008, pp. 467-90.

“’Jewish Christianity’ as Counter-history? The Apostolic Past in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies,” in Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World, ed. Gregg Gardner and Kevin Osterloh, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 123; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008, pp. 173–216. [pre-print]