Reading Lists

The goal of this page is to collect and share syllabuses/reading lists relating to topics I’m interested in.

The History, Theory, and Method of NT/ECL

Crossley, James G. “Toward a Secular Approach to Christian Origins: The Use of the Social Sciences in New Testament Scholarship.” Pp. 1-34 in Why Christianity Happened: A Sociohistorical Account of Christian Origins (26-50 CE). Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.

Moore, Stephen D. and Yvone Sherwood. The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical Manifesto. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011.

Stowers, Stanley. “The Concept of ‘Community’ and the History of Early Christianity.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 23 (2011): 238-256