The Centre for the Study of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity (CJCA) benefits from a world-renowned group of international and interdisciplinary internal and external affiliates. These affiliates are committed to the scholarly endeavours of CJCA and function as a pool or resources for research students.
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Internal Affiliates
Director of CJCA and Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Email: chris.keith@stmarys.ac.uk
Tel: 020 8240 4159
Specialist areas: New Testament; historical Jesus; social/cultural memory; Jewish and Christian scribal culture; literacy and textuality
Psychology Programme Director
Email: peary.brug@stmarys.ac.uk
Tel: 020 8240 4342
Specialist areas: social psychology; group identity; research methods
Senior Lecturer in Physics
Email: elisabetta.canetta@stmarys.ac.uk
Specialist areas: theology and physics of time, philosophical natural theology, theoretical physics and theology, transcendence of mathematics, rehabilitation bioengineering
Professor of Bible, Society, and Politics
Email: james.crossley@stmarys.ac.uk
James' blog
Specialist areas: historical Jesus; Jewish law; reception history; social history of contemporary scholarship; the Bible and religion in contemporary political discourse
Senior Lecturer and Teaching Fellow - History
Email: mark.donnelly@stmarys.ac.uk
Tel: 020 8240 4080
Specialist areas: historiography; memory theory; 1960s Britain
External Affiliates
Prof Philip Esler
University of Gloucestershire, UK
Specialist areas: Social-scientific interpretation of biblical and extra-biblical texts; Bible and theology; 1 Enoch; Dead Sea legal papyri; Bible and the visual arts
Philip's profile
Dr Daniel M. Gurtner
Louisville, KY
Specialist areas: Gospels (esp. Gospel of Matthew) and Judaic Contexts; Epistle of James; Second Temple Judaism
Daniel's personal website
Dr Davina Grojnowski
Frankfurt, Germany
Specialist areas: Josephus, Second Temple Judaism, Envy and Emotions, Roman Empire, Evolution of Religion
Davina's personal website
Dr Charles Halton
Louisville, KY
Specialist areas: Hebrew prophets; Old Testament Theology; Mespotamian studies; women in the ancient world; scribal culture
Charles' personal website
Prof Louise Lawrence
University of Exeter, UK
Specialist areas: Gospels, esp. Gospel of Matthew; ethnography; cultural anthropology; disability studies
Louise's profile
Dr Anthony Le Donne
United Theological Seminary, USA
Specialist areas: historical Jesus; historiography; memory theory; Jewish/Christian dialogue
Anthony's blog
Prof Amy-Jill Levine
Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA
Specialist areas: Historical Jesus; Gospels; Second Temple Judaism; Jewish-Christian dialogue; Bible, women, gender, and sexuality
Amy-Jill's profile
Dr Paul Middleton
University of Chester, UK
Specialist areas: New Testament; martyrdom; Gospels; Revelation
Paul's profile
Dr Bennie Reynolds
Charleston, SC USA
Specialist areas: Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Ancient and Modern Apocalypticism
Bennie's blog
Prof Rafael Rodríguez
Johnson University, USA
Specialist areas: ancient media culture; Gospel of Luke; historical Jesus; memory theory
Raphael's blog
Dr Sarah Rollens
Rhodes College, USA
Specialist areas: Christian origins, social theories of religion, scribalism in the Roman Empire, ancient identity formation, violence in the Bible, and Synoptic Gospels/Q
Sarah's personal website
Prof Anders Runesson
University of Oslo, Norway
Specialist areas: synagogues; Gospel of Matthew; historical Jesus; Jewish context of early Christianity; Paul
Anders' personal website
Prof Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
William Jessup University, USA
Specialist Areas: Hebrew Bible, Archaeology and Cultural Context of Ancient Israel
Cynthia's profile
Dr Ruth Sheridan
Oxford University, UK/Sydney University, Australia
Specialist areas: Gospel of John; anti-Judaism in the Bible; use of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the New Testament
Ruth's profile
Dr Minna Shkul
Sheffield University, UK
Specialist areas: deutero-Pauline epistles; second century Christianity; social identity
Minna's profile
Prof Christopher Skinner
Loyola University Chicago, USA
Specialist areas: Gospel of John; Gospel of Thomas; Gospel of Mark; narrative criticism
Christopher's personal website | Christopher's blog
Dr Katherine Southwood
Oxford University, UK
Specialist areas: Ezra-Nehemiah; Judges; interdisciplinary approaches to the Hebrew Bible; cultural anthropology
Katherine's profile
Dr Mikael Tellbe
Örebro School of Theology, Sweden
Specialist areas: Paul, Pauline literature; social identity
Mikael's profile
Prof Brian Tucker
Moody Theological Seminary (USA)
Specialist areas: social-scientific criticism; social identity; Pauline studies; 1 Corinthians; Jewish setting for the earliest Christ-movement; post-supersessionism; theological anthropology
Brian's profile
Dr Jacqueline Vayntrub
Yale Divinity School
Specialist areas: Hebrew Bible, wisdom literature, poetics, ancient literary theory
Jacqueline's profile
Prof Tommy Wasserman
Ansgar Teologiske Høgskole, Norway/Örebro School of Theology, Sweden
Specialist areas: New Testament textual criticism; palaeography; Hebrews; Catholic Letters; History of reception
Tommy's profile