My teaching involves the history of religions in Greek and Roman antiquity,
with a special interest in early Christianity. Most of my published
work is on the Gospels: Mark, Luke, the Q source, and the Coptic
Gospel of Thomas.
A second area of research is Coptic: the language and literature
of Egyptian Christianity (and Gnosticism too) in Late Antiquity and
the early Middle Ages. My own writing projects these days center on
Luke, Thomas, and various Coptic liturgical and hagiographical texts.
Pauline Conversations in Context: Essays in Honor of Calvin J.
Roetzel, Co-Editor (with Janice Capel Anderson and Claudia Setzer).
Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, no. 221.
London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. 295 pp.
The Hundredfold Reward: Martyrdom and Sexual Renunciation in Christian
North Africa.
Forthcoming in the series Writings from the Greco-Roman
World. Co-published at Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers; Atlanta:
Society of Biblical Literature.
"Thomas Christianity: Scholars in Quest of a Community."
Pp 11-35 in: The Apocryphal Acts of Thomas (ed. Jan N. Bremmer;
Leuven: Èditions Peeters, 2001).
"An Early Coptic Witness to the Dormitio Mariae at Yale:
P.CtYBR inv. 1778 Revisited." Bulletin of the American Society
of Papyrologists 37 (2000) 37-70 + plates 2-4.
"The Gospel of Thomas: Prospects for Future Research."
Pp. 327-356 in: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Nag Hammadi Library
(ed. John D. turner & Anne McGuire; Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies;
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997).
"Tracking the Tradition: On the Current State of Tradition-Historical
Research." Foundations & Facets Forum 9 (1993)
217-236.
"Laodiceans and the Philippians Fragments Hypothesis."
Harvard Theological Review 87 (1994) 17-28.
"Interior Monologue as a Narrative Device in the Parables of Luke."
Journal of Biblical Literature III (1992) 239-253.
"Secret Mark and the History of Canonical Mark."
Pp 242-257 in The Future of Early Christianity (ed. Birger
A. Pearson; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991).
"Oral and Written Sources in Mark 4. 1-34." New Testament
Studies 36 (1990) 234-267.
"Achilles or Christ?" Porphyry and Didymus in Debate over
Allegorical Interpretation." Harvard Theological Review
82 (1989) 79-100.
"A Coptic Blessing for Reading the Apocalypse in the Paschal Liturgy."
Article forthcoming in Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, ed.
Jacques van der Vliet.
