Research Interests
My general research interests include: social, economic and historical explanations of Christian origins, early Jewish history and culture, Jewish law, the historical Jesus, the canonical gospels, Paul´s early career, Semitic background to earliest Christianity, socio-historical approaches to Christian origins, secular approaches to biblical studies, the resurrection, ancient monotheism, modern historiography, political influences on modern New Testament scholarship, and the Bible in popular culture. I would welcome postgraduate and research students in any areas related to the above. More specific areas for future postgraduate research might include:
- Socio-economic explanations of Christological development
- Socio-economic explanations of Christological development
- First-century monotheisms (Christian, Jewish and ‘pagan’)
- Early Jewish or Christian religious practices in macro-sociological contexts
- Biblical studies and ‘the war on terror’
- Biblical studies and Christian Zionism
- Jewish identities and the gospel tradition
- Purity in early Judaism and/or the teaching of Jesus
- Socio-historical methodology and historical Jesus studies
- Biblical studies and the Cold War
- ‘Culture wars’ and New Testament study
- Bible in contemporary popular music
- Bible in British party politics
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