Books
Studying the New Testament Through Inscriptions: An Introduction (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2020). This work introduces (mostly Greek) inscriptions to readers (e.g., what they are, how they are made, how to read corpora of inscriptions, etc.) and show how to properly use them in the interpretation of the New Testament. That is, I argue that inscriptions are archaeological artifacts and must be treated as such. Thus, the bulk of Studying the New Testament consists of five case studies demonstrating proper methodological use of inscriptions. It was a finalist for Best Books in Biblical Theology 2020, Center for Biblical Studies Book Award.
Christ’s Enthronement at God’s Right Hand & Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 232 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021). This book places the early Christian use of Ps 110:1 in its social context, arguing that the unaccounted for widespread use of Ps 110:1 in the early Christian movement is due to a hitherto overlooked cross-cultural expectation of the reward for a pious, beneficent, and divinely approved monarch.
Paul & Imperial Divine Honors: Christ, Caesar, and the Gospel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2024). This book examines divine honors for Julio–Claudians in Philippi, Thessalonica, and Corinth and analyzes what connections, if any, exist between these honors and Paul’s congregations in those cities.
Studying the New Testament Through Inscriptions: A Sourcebook (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, forthcoming).
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity Volume 15: Galatia, co-edited with James Harrison (Atlanta: SBL Press, forthcoming).
Articles and Essays
“ὠδίνω in Greek Epigraphy and Galatians 4:19,” in The First Urban Churches: Galatia, Writings of the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series, edited by James R. Harrison and L.L. Welborn (Atlanta: SBL Press, forthcoming).
“Inscriptions,” in Empire Criticism in the New Testament, edited by Christoph Heilig (Atlanta, SBL Press, forthcoming).
“Epigraphy,” and “Inscriptions and their Language,” in Encyclopedia of Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics, edited by Stanley Porter, Dana Harris, Jonathan Watt, and Christopher Land (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, forthcoming).
“Jewish Sympathizers: A Reappraisal of Luke’s ‘God-Fearers,’” in Fear, Fear of God, God-fearers: Philological and Historical Perspectives on the World of Ancient Judaism and Christianity, eds. Phillip Hensel and Benedikt Lasater (forthcoming).
“Greco-Roman Villages as Microcosms of Greek Cities,” in The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity, edited by Alan Cadwallader, James R. Harrison, Angela Standhartinger, and Larry Welborn (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, forthcoming).
“The Interplay between Indigenous Cults and Imperial Cults in the New Testament World,” in Inscriptions, Graffiti, Documentary Papyri, edited by James R. Harrison and E. Randolph Richards (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, forthcoming).
“Temple and Throne Sharing: A Reconsideration of Σύνναος and Σύνθρονος in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 111 (2022): 421–62.
“Divine Honors for Imperials in Julio-Claudian Thessalonica: A Reassessment of Thessalonian Imperial Cultic Activity and Its Connections to the Thessalonian Correspondence,” Journal of Biblical Literature 139 (2020): 567–89; reprinted, “Imperial Divine Honors in Julio-Claudian Thessalonica and the Thessalonian Correspondence,” in The First Urban Churches 7 Thessalonica, edited by James R. Harrison and L. L. Welborn, Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement 21 (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2022), 63–92.
“Divine Titles for Julio-Claudian Imperials in Corinth: Neglected Factors in Reconstructions of Corinthian Imperial Worship and its Connections to the Corinthian Church,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 82 (2020): 437–55.
“‘Seated in God’s Temple’: Illuminating 2 Thess 2:4 in Light of Inscriptions and Archaeology Related to Imperial Divine Honors,” Lexington Theological Quarterly 48 (2018): 69–94.
“Going Through Hell: Tartarus in Greco-Roman Culture, Second Temple Judaism, and Philo of Alexandria,” Journal of Ancient Judaism 4 (2013): 352–78.
“The Eschatological Prophet of Restoration: Luke’s Theological Portrait of John the Baptist in Luke 3:1-6,” Neotestamentica 47:1 (2013): 1–24.