TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, Department of Religious
Studies.
*
James A. Gray Distinguished Professor, 2003 -
*
Department Chair, 2000 - 2006
*
Professor, 1999 -
*
Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor, 1998-2001
*
Director of Graduate Studies, 1996-99
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Associate Professor, 1994-99
*
Assistant Professor, 1988-94
Adjunct Appointments
Duke University, Department of Religion
* Adjunct Professor, 2000 -
* Visiting Assistant Professor, 1991
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department. of Classics, 2005 -
Rutgers University, Department of Religion
* Lecturer at the Rank of Assistant Professor, 1985-88
* Lecturer at the Rank of Instructor, 1984-85
Princeton
Theological Seminary
*
Instructor in New Testament Greek and Exegesis, 1985
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT
New
Testament Introduction; Jesus in Myth,
Tradition, and History; The Birth of
Christianity; Apocalypse Now and Then; Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early
Christianity; Jesus in Scholarship and
Film; The Life and Letters of Paul;
Jesus and the Synoptics; The
Gospel and Letters of John; The Problem
of Suffering in the Biblical Traditions;
Introduction to Hebrew Bible.
GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT
Problems
and Methods in New Testament Studies;
Early Christian Apocrypha; The
Apostolic Fathers; The Greek Apologists; Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early
Christianity; Christianity in the Early
Roman Empire; Readings in the Greco-Roman
Religions; New Testament Textual Criticism;
New Testament Greek and Exegesis.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
(Co-)Editor-in-Chief, Vigiliae Christianae: A Review of Early Christian Life and Language (published by E. J. Brill; 2007-)
Associate Editor, Journal of Early Christian Studies , (2006- ; Editorial Board, 2004-06)
Co-Editor, New Testament Tools and Studies, monograph series published by
E. J. Brill (1993-2006); renamed New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents (2006-)
Editorial
Board, New Testament Studies (2004 - )
Editorial
Board, Early Christianity in Context (monograph series published by T
& T Clark;
2004- )
Editorial
Board, Pericope: Scripture as Written and Read in Antiquity, monograph series published by Van Gorcum & Co. (2001-)
Editorial
Board, Journal of Early Christian Studies (2004 - )
Editor, The New Testament in the Greek Fathers, monograph series published by
Scholars Press (Editorial board, 1988‑ ; Editor-in-Chief, 1991- 97)
Editorial
Board, Studies and Documents, monograph series published by Eerdmans
(1995 - )
Book Review Editor, Journal of Biblical Literature (Book
Review Editor; 1997-99; Associate editor 1994-97)
Network
Editor, Religious Studies Review, in the areas of New Testament and
Hellenistic Languages, the Text and Canon of the New Testament (1988-94)
Editorial
Board, Critical Review of Books in Religion (1994 - 98)
Editorial
Board, Textual Criticism: An Electronic Journal (1995 - )
Advisory
Board, Electronic New Testament Manuscript Project (1995 - 99)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Graduate
Council for the Study of Religion, Nominating Committee (2002 - )
President,
Society of Biblical Literature, Southeast Region (1996-97)
Vice-President
and Program Chair, Society of Biblical Literature, Southeast Region (1995-96)
Executive
Committee, Southeast Council for the Study of Religion (1995-98)
Chair,
New Testament Textual Criticism Section of the Society of Biblical Literature
(1990-96); Steering Committee (1996 - )
International
Steering Committee, North American Committee of the International Greek New
Testament Project, a project undertaken jointly by American and British textual
scholars, responsible for constructing a critical apparatus for the Greek New
Testament (1988 - ); International Steering Committee (2000- )
Carolina
Speakers Bureau (Group of faculty members who represent the university as
speakers at public functions; 1996 - 2000)
Society
of Biblical Literature Council (the major policy-making body of the Society)
(1994-98)
Principal
Researcher and Consultant, Endowment for Biblical Research Lexicon Project
(1992
- 2000)
Research
Assistant, RSV Bible Translation Committee, Princeton, NJ
(1987-88)
Research
Assistant, Princeton Epigraphy Project. The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
(1986‑87)
PUBLICATIONS
Books: (click on title for more information or
to purchase)
God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer .
San Francisco: HarperOne. Forthcoming, February 2008..
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: Betrayer and Betrayed Reconsidered .
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
*Translations: Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Spanish
Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament .
New Testament Tools and Studies. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006
.
Peter,
Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend.
New York
:
Oxford
University
Press, 2006. Pp.
304.
Misquoting Jesus: The Story of Who Changed the New Testament
and Why. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. Pp.
x + 242.
Co-authored with Bruce Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Origin, Corruption, and
Restoration, 4th edition.
New York: Oxford University
Press, 2005. Pp. xvi + 366.
Truth and Fiction in the DaVinci Code: A Historian Reveals What
We Can Really Know about Jesus, Mary, and Constantine. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv + 207.
*
Translations: Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Polish,
Slavonic, Russian, Thai
A Brief Introduction to the New Testament. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2004. Pp. xxxi + 380.
Christianity in Late Antiquity: A Reader. (Co-edited with Andrew Jacobs) New York: Oxford
University Press,
2004. Pp. xviii + 504
Lost Christianities. New York: Oxford
University Press,
2003. Pp. xviii + 294.
* History Book Club Main
Selection
* Translations: Italian, Spanish
Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Become the New Testament
(a reader). New
York: Oxford
University Press,
2003. Pp. vi + 342.
* History
Book Club Main Selection
The Apostolic Fathers.
(Greek-English edition for the Loeb Classical Library) 2 vols. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2003. Vol. 1,
pp. xii + 443; vol. 2, pp. 481.
Jesus:
Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 274.
*History Book of the Month Club
Selection. Los Angeles Times 2000 Book
of the Year award.
* Translations: Spanish, Danish,
Chinese
After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998. Pp. xii+ 436.
The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader. New York: Oxford University Press,
1998; Second edition, 2004 Pp. xii +
419.
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early
Christian Writings New York:
Oxford University Press, 1997; Second edition, 2000; Third edition, 2004. Pp.
xxxv + 506..
*History
Book Club Selection.
The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays
on the Status Quaestionis.
Studies and Documents 46; Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995. Pp.
xiv + 402. (Co-edited with
Michael W.Holmes)
The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early
Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press,
1993 Pp. xiv + 314.
The Text of the Fourth Gospel in the Writings of Origen,
vol. 1 ("Introduction, Text, and Apparatus") SBLNTGF, 3;
Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1992. Pp. x + 499.
(Co-authored with Gordon D. Fee and Michael W. Holmes)
Didymus the Blind and the Text of the Gospels; SBLNTGF, 1. Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 288.
Books in Preparation:
Forgery and Counterforgery in the Early Christian Tradition . (Scholarly monograph; expected date of completion, Spring 2009).
The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations .
(under contract with Oxford University Press; expected date of completion: November, 2007).
How Jesus Became God: From Jewish Preacher to Lord of All (under contract
with Oxford University Press; expected date of completion: August 2008).
Introduction to the Bible (under contract
with Oxford University Press; expected date of completion: January 2009).
Inventing Christianity (under contract
with HarperSanFrancisco; expected date of completion: December 2009).
Gospels of the
Second Century: A Commentary (under contract with Fortress Press; Hermeneia Commentary Series, scheduled for completion December 2010)
Articles:
“The Alternative Vision of the Gospel of Judas ,” in The Gospel of Judas, ed. Marvin Meyer et al. (Washington: National Geographic, 2006)
“Forward,” to The Lost Gospel, by Herbert Krosney (Washington: National Geographic, 2006).
“Textual Traditions Compared: The New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers,” in The Reception of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers (Oxford: University Press, 2005) pp. 9-27.
“Did Jesus Get Angry or Agonize?” Bible Review 21
(2005) pp. 16-26.
“Hedrick’s Consensus
on the Secret Gospel of Mark,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 11
(2003) pp. 155-64.
“A Leper in the Hands of an Angry Jesus,” New
Testament Greek and Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Gerald Hawthorne. Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003; pp. 77-98.
“The Use of the Church Fathers in
New Testament Textual Criticism,” The Bible As Book. Grand Rapids: Scriptorium, 2003.
“Text and
Interpretation: The Exegetical Significance of the ‘Original’ Text,” TC: A
Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, 5 (2000).
“Text and Transmission: The
Historical Significance of the ‘Altered’ Text,”
TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, 5 (2000)
“A Critique of Encountering the
New Testament by Walter A. Elwell and Robert W. Yarbrough,” Perspectives
in Religion 27 (2000) 253-62.
"The Text of
the New Testament," in Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Grand
Rapids, Eerdmans; 1999.
“Jesus as Apocalyptic Prophet,” Perspectives
in Religion, 26 (1999) 153-66.
"The Text of the Gospels at the
End of the Second Century," in Acta Colloquii Lunelii: Codex Bezae
Cantabrigiensis. Ed. C. -B. Amphoux
and D. C. Parker. New Testament Tools
and Studies; Leiden:
E. J. Brill, 1996; pp. 95-122.
"Manuscripts and Meaning: The
Textual Criticism of the New Testament," for New Testament
Interpretation Today. Ed. Joel
Green; Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1996; pp. 127-45.
Translation
of "Die griechischen Minuskeln des Neuen Testaments," by Barbara
Aland and Kurt Wachtel, in The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary
Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis, ed. Bart D. Ehrman and
Michael W. Holmes. Studies and
Documents 46; Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1995; pp. 43-60.
The Text as Window: New Testament Manuscripts
and the Social History of Early Christianity," in The New Testament in
Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis, ed. Bart D.
Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes. Studies
and Documents 46; Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1995; pp. 361-79.
"The Use and Significance of
Patristic Evidence in New Testament Textual Criticism," in New
Testament Textual Criticism, Exegesis, and Church History: A Discussion of
Methods, eds. B. Aland and J. Delobel.
Kampen, The Netherlands:
Kok Pharos, 1994; pp. 118-35.
"Heracleon and the `Western'
Textual Tradition," New Testament Studies, 40 (1994) 465-86.
"Heracleon,
Origen, and the Text of the Fourth Gospel," Vigiliae Christianae,
47 (1993) 105-18.
"The
Theodotians as Corruptors of Scripture," Studia Patristica, ed.
Elizabeth A. Livingstone. Louvain:
Peeters; 1992; pp. 46-51.
"The Cup, the Bread, and the
Salvific Death of Jesus in Luke-Acts," Society of Biblical Literature
Seminar Papers. Atlanta: Scholars, 1991; pp. 576-91.
"The Text of Mark in the Hands
of the Orthodox," in Biblical Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective:
Essays in Honor of Karlfried Froehlich, ed. Mark Burrows and Paul
Rorem. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; 1991; pp. 19-31.
"Cephas and Peter," Journal
of Biblical Literature, 109 (1990) pp. 463-74.
"A Problem of Textual Circularity: The Alands
on the Classification of New Testament Manuscripts," Biblica, 70
(1989) 377-88.
"1 John 4:3 and the Orthodox
Corruption of Scripture," Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche
Wissenschaft, 79 (1988) 221‑43.
"Jesus and the
Adulteress," New Testament Studies, 34 (1988) 24‑44.
"Methodological Developments in
the Analysis and Classification of New Testament Documentary Evidence," Novum
Testamentum, 29 (1987) 22‑45.
"The Use of Group Profiles for
the Classification of New Testament Documentary Evidence," Journal of
Biblical Literature, 107 (1987) 465‑86.
"The New Testament Canon of
Didymus," Vigiliae Christianae, 37 (1983) pp. 1‑21.
"The Angel and the Agony: The Textual Problem of Luke 22:43‑44,"
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 45 (1983) 401‑16 (co‑authored
with Mark A. Plunkett).
"Jesus' Trial Before Pilate:
John 18:28‑19:16," Biblical Theology Bulletin, 13 (1983) 124‑31.
Edited
Texts and Lists of Inscriptions:
"Priene Inscriptions: Texts and Lists," Princeton:
Institute for Advanced Study, 1988 (co‑edited with Neil Elliot and Donald
McCabe).
"Klazomenai Inscriptions: Texts and Lists," Princeton:
Institute for Advanced Study, 1986 (co‑edited with James Brownson and
Donald McCabe).
"Samos Inscriptions: Texts and Lists," Princeton:
Institute for Advanced Study, 1986 (co‑edited with James Brownson and
Donald McCabe).
Courses
on Audio and Video Tape:
“History of the Bible:
The Formation of the New Testament Canon” (12 lectures); The Teaching Company
(scheduled for release, November 2005)
“After the New Testament: Writings of the
Apostolic Fathers,” (24 lectures); The Teaching Company (scheduled for release,
August, 2005)
“From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity”
(24 lectures); The Teaching Company.
June 2003
“Lost
Christianities: The Struggle for Authentication in the Early Church”
(24 lectures); The Teaching Company.
December, 2002.
“Introduction to the New Testament”
(24 lectures); The Teaching Company.
January, 2000.
“The Historical
Jesus” (24 Lectures); The Teaching Company.
July 2000.
Book
Reviews and Book Notes
Published in Journal of Biblical
Literature; Critical Review of Books in Religion; Religious
Studies Review; Bible Review; The American Historical Society;
Theology Today; Patristics; Catholic Biblical Quarterly; Currents
in Contemporary Christology; Princeton Seminary Bulletin.
INVITED
LECTURES/TALKS
Wake Forest University Divinity School (2007; 2002)
Hofstra University (2007)
Drew University (2007)
Randolph Macon Women's College (2007)
National Cathedral, Washington D.C. (2007)
Kings College, London (2006)
Stetson University (2006)
Barton College (2006)
Marist College (2006)
UNC-Greensboro (2006)
UNC-Charlotte (the Loy Witherspoon Lecture; 2006)
UNC-Asheville (2005)
Emory and Henry College (2005)
Virginia Commonwealth University (Blake Lecture; 2005)
St. Andrews College (2004)
Nebraska Wesleyan University (Mattingly Lectures; 2004)
Yale University (Shaeffer Lectures, 2004; the New Testament Colloquium, 2001)
University
of Minnesota
(2003)
Elon University
(1998-2003)
Cornell University
(2003)
Southeast Lousiana
University (the Matheny
Lecture in Religion and Science, 2003)
University
of North Carolina, Wilmington (2002)
Lancaster Theological Seminary (the Englert
Lecture, 2002)
Wake
Forest, The Divinity School
(2002)
Yale University
(the New Testament Colloquium, 2001)
University of Birmingham, U.K.
(1998, New Testament Colloquium; 2001)
Hendrix
College (The Steele Center
Lecture, 2001)
Augusta State
University (the Cullum
Lectures, 2001)
University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill (College Lights Lectures, 2000)
University of South
Carolina (the Charleton Hall Lectures, 2000)
Loyola Marymount
University (2000)
Oberlin College
(1999)
Duke University
(1991; the Kenneth Clark Lectures, 1997)
Baylor University
(1997)
Union Theological Seminary (1997)
Princeton
Theological Seminary (Viva Vox Scriptura: Symposium on Biblical Exegesis, 1990)
RECENT ACADEMIC / CONFERENCE
PAPERS (Past five years):
"Forgery and Counterforgery in the Early Christian Tradition," International Patristics Conference, Oxford, UK (August 2007)
"Texts Normative and Canonical," Colloquium at the University of Aarhus, Denmark (January 2007)
"Constraining the Reading of the Text," King's College, London (May 2006)
"Misquoting Jesus: A Response," Society of Biblical Literature, annual meeting. Philadelphia (November 2005)
"Christ as a Divine Man in Texts Disputed and Apocryphal," British New Testament Colloquium (September 2004). Univeristy of Edinburgh.
“The
Textual Traditions of the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers,”
Lincoln
College
,
Oxford University
, April 2004
“Intentional
Fallacies: Modifications of the Text and the Rhetoric of Scribal Discourse,”
Society of Biblical Literature Meeting.
Atlanta
, November 2003; and New Testament Colloquium,
Duke
University
;
February 2004.
“A
New Edition of the Loeb Apostolic Fathers,” International Patristics
Conference. Oxford University. August 2003.,
“Too
Good To Be False? A Text Critic Looks at
the Secret Gospel of Mark,” Society of Biblical Literature Meeting. Toronto,
November 2002.
RECENT PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
(past five years)
In 2006: 40 public lectures at local colleges and universities, the Smithsonian (Washington DC); the Biblical Archaeology Society, religious and civic groups, and other venues
In 2005: 25 public lectures at local colleges and universities, the Smithsonian (Washington DC); the Biblical Archaeology Society, religious and civic groups, and other public venues
“Lost
Christianities,” four lectures at the Smithsonian Institute,
Washington DC
. February 2004.
“Lost
Gospels,” Six lectures ofr Biblical Archaeology Cruise to the Caribbean,
January 2004.
“Lost
Gospels in Early Christianity,” Program in the Humanities and Human Values,
UNC; September 2003; February 2004.
“Earliest Christianity in Greece,” UNC
General Alumni Association. April 2004
“Unknown
Gospels,” Biblical Archaeology Society. Atlanta. November 2003.
“Lost
Christianities,” ten lectures for the Biblical Archaeology Society. Wake
Forest University,
June 2003.
“The
Gospel of Peter.” Biblical Archaeology
Society. Toronto.
November 2002.
“Lost
Gospels of Early Christianity.” Three
lectures for the Biblical Archaeology Society, December 2002.
“The
Historical Jesus.” Four lectures at UNC
Wilmington, February, 2003.
“Lost
Christianities: The Battles for Truth and the Scriptures We Never Knew.” Ten lectures for the Summer Vacation
College, Biblical Archaeology Society. St. Edmund’s Hall, Oxford
University, July 2002; and St. Olaf College, Northfield,
MN; July 2001.
“The
Quest for the Historical Jesus.” Four
lectures for Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC-CH. Seminar given four times; 2001-02.
“Writings
Outside the Canon: Recent Discoveries of Ancient Texts.” Three lectures for the Biblical Archaeology
Society. Washington, DC.; September 2000.
“Jesus
and the Beginnings of Christianity.” Seven lectures for the UNC Alumni Trip to
the Holy
Land; April, 2000.
“Early
Christian Manuscripts and the History of the Canon.” Three lectures for the Biblical Archaeology
Society. Ft. Lauderdale Florida;
April 1999.
“The
Historical Jesus in Modern Scholarship.” Ten lectures for the Summer Vacation
College, Biblical
Archaeology Society. St.
Olaf College;
Northfield,
MN.; June 1999.
“The
Text and Canon of the New Testament.”
Three lectures for the Biblical Archaeology Society Seminar, Nashville, TN;
April 1999.
OTHER
LECTURES
For the following groups/venues: The
Biblical Archaeology Society; UNC-Chapel Hill Program in the Humanities and
Human Values; National Humanities Center; Triangle Institute for Jewish
Studies; B’nai B’rith Institute for Judaism; various local and state-wide
church and civic groups.
TELEVISION
Daily Show with John Stewart
The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert
CNN
HistoryChannel
National Geographic
BBC4
Discovery Channel
NBC Dateline
Inside Edition
A&E
Opus TV (Wales)
UNC-TV
Local TV Stations
RADIO
"Fresh Air" (Terry Gross) (3x)
The Diane Rehm Show
The Leonard Lopate Show (NYC)
The Milt Rosenberg Show (Chicago; 3x)
The State of Things (local NPR)
Talk of the Nation
For "Misquoting Jesus" 20-25 local NPR and other radio stations
For "Gospel of Judas" 15-20 local NPR and other radio stations
"Soundings" (NPR)
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
Society of Biblical Literature,
Research and Publications Grant (for “Apostolic Fathers,” with the Loeb
Classical Library), 2000
University Research Council Research
Grant (for “Apostolic Fathers,” with the Loeb Classical Library), 2000
Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship
(Awarded for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching), 1998-2001
Brandes Seminar Course Development
Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1997.
University Research Council Publication
Grant (for "After the New Testament: A Reader in Early
Christianity"), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1997.
University Research Council Research
Grant (for "After the New Testament: A Reader in Early
Christianity"), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1997.
Arts and Sciences Foundation
Research Development Grant. University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, 1995.
Phillip and Ruth Hettlemann Prize
for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 1994.
John Lupton Foundation Grant for
Course Development, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,1994.
Brandes Seminar Course Development
Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1994.
Undergraduate Students' Teaching
Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1993.
University Research Council Grant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (for
"The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture”), 1993.
Society of Biblical Literature
Research and Publication Grant (for the International Greek New Testament
Project), 1992.
Society of Biblical Literature
Research and Publication Grant (for "The Text of the Fourth Gospel in the
Writings of Origen"), 1991.
Faculty Fellowship, Institute for
the Arts and the Humanities, University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 1991.
University Research Council Grant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (for
"The Text of the Fourth Gospel in the Writings of Origen"), 1990.
UNC Foundation Junior Faculty Development
Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(for "The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture"), 1990
John Lupton Foundation Grant for
Course Development, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1990.
Summer Faculty Fellowship, Institute
for the Arts and Humanities, University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. 1989.