New Testament and Early Christian Literature

This study advances a suggestive reading of Justin Martyr's Apologies as a subjective appropriation of the forms and practices of the Roman system of petition and respons [...]

This dissertation argues that Hermas, the author the Shepherd, was meaningfully influenced by a corpus of Pauline letters. Chapter One demonstrates that the Shepherd was [...]

Examining three laudatory biographical narratives by the fourth-century theologian Gregory of Nyssa (335-395 CE), I ask how this Christian author uses the genre of encomi [...]