• Duke University, Ph.D. in Religion, 2010
• Oxford University, M.St. in Jewish Studies, 2004
• Trinity Western University, M.A. in Biblical Studies, 2003
• Tyndale College, B.R.S., 2001

Undergraduate

• Jewish World at the Time of the New Testament (3DD3)
• Introduction to the New Testament (2NT3)
• Who Was Jesus? (2GG3)
• The New Testament (2NT3)
• Apocalypse Then and Now (2AP3)
• Abraham in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (1LO3)
• The Birth of Christianity (2HH3)

Graduate

• The Gift in Early Judaism and Christianity
• The Gospel of Luke
• The Gospel of Mark
• Ancient Jewish and Christian Interpretations of Scripture
• Paul: Apostle to Pagans
  
  

Monographs

• Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels’ Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2020.

• Korean translation of Jesus and the Forces of Death. Translated by Dr. Aquila Lee. Seoul: Holy Wave Plus, 2021.

• Paul and the Gentile Problem. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

• Contesting Conversion: Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Winner of the 2014 Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise.

Edited Volumes

• The Ways that Often Parted: Essays in Honor of Joel Marcus. Edited with Lori Baron and Jill Hicks-Keeton. SBL Early Christianity and Its Literature Series. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018.

• Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. Edited with Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and Wolfgang Grünstäudl. WUNT 1/394. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017.

• The So-Called Jew in Paul’s Letter to the Romans. Edited with Rafael Rodríguez. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016.

Journal Articles

• “A Worthy Cornelius and the Divine Gift: Complicating John Barclay’s Paul and the Gift,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly, forthcoming.
• “Conjuring Paul and Judaism Forty Years After Paul and Palestinian Judaism.” Journal of the Jesus Movement in Its Jewish Setting 5 (2018): 6–20. [Subsequently translated and published in the Korean translation of E. P. Sanders, Paul and Palestinian Judaism.]
• “Protecting the Holy Race and Holy Space: Judith's Reenactment of the Slaughter of Shechem.” Journal for the Study of Judaism 49 (2018): 165–88.
• “The Legislation of Leviticus 12 in Light of Ancient Embryology.” Vetus Testamentum 68 (2018): 297–319.
• “Paul, Essentialism, and the Jewish Law: In Conversation with Christine Hayes.” Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters 7 (2017): 80–85.
• “Conversion, Jewish.” Oxford Classical Dictionary. Edited by Sander Goldberg. New York: Oxford University Press. 2017. 8 pages.
• “The Many for One or One for the Many: Reading Mark 10:45 in the Roman Empire.” Harvard Theological Review 109 (2016): 447–66.
• “Paul's Argument against Gentile Circumcision in Rom 2:17–29.” Novum Testamentum 56 (2014): 373–91.
• “Aseneth’s Eight-Day Transformation as Scriptural Justification for Conversion.” Journal for the Study of Judaism 45 (2014): 229–49.
• “A Buried Pentateuchal Allusion to the Resurrection in Mark 12:25.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 76 (2014): 273–90.
• “‘The Rock Was Christ’: The Fluidity of Christ’s Body in 1 Cor. 10.4.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 36 (2013): 103–26.
• “Revisiting the prosēlutos in ‘the LXX’.” Journal of Biblical Literature 132 (2013): 333–50.
• “Abolishers of the Law in Early Judaism and Matthew 5,17–20.” Biblica 93 (2012): 543–56.
• “Luke 2:22, Leviticus 12, and Parturient Impurity.” Novum Testamentum 54 (2012): 16–29.
• “The Text of Genesis 17:14.” Journal of Biblical Literature 128 (2009): 625–42.
• “The Function of a Conjunction: Inclusivist or Exclusivist Strategies in Ezra 6.21 and Nehemiah 10.29–30?” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 34 (2009): 63–79.
• “Hebrews 12.5–13, the Wilderness Period, and Israel’s Discipline.” New Testament Studies 55 (2009): 366–79.
• “4Q372 1 and the Continuation of Joseph’s Exile.” Dead Sea Discoveries 15 (2008): 380–95.
• “Hebrews and the End of the Exodus.” Novum Testamentum 49 (2007): 353–69.
• “The Form and Function of the Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:1–43).” Journal of Biblical Literature 123 (2004): 1–23.

Essays

• “Ritual Purity and Holiness.” Forthcoming in Behind the Scenes of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts, ed. T. J. Lang, Bruce Longenecker, and Elizabeth Shively (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic).
• “Paul and Israel” (with Paula Fredriksen) in Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies. Edited by Matthew V. Novenson and R. Barry Matlock. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• “Hypodescent in Two Ancient Jewish Writers: Jubilees and Paul on Mixed Marriages.” Forthcoming in an edited volume entitled Negotiating Identities.
• “Jewishness, Boundaries, Conversion, ger,” in vol. 3 of Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies, ed. Cecilia Wassen (10 vols., Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic), forthcoming.
• “Jesus and Ritual Impurity,” in Biblical Archaeology Review, forthcoming.
• "Did Jesus Plan to Start a New Religion?" Pages 18–32 in Understanding the Jewish Roots of Christianity: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Essays on the Relationship Between Christianity and Judaism. Edited by Gerald McDermott. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, Press, 2021.
• “Remapping Paul within Jewish Ideologies of Inclusion.” Pages 87–96 in Paul and Matthew Among Jews and Gentiles: Essays in Honour of Terence L. Donaldson. Edited by Ronald Charles. Library of New Testament Studies 628. London: T&T Clark, 2021.
• “Jesus and the Forces of Death,” in Credo Magazine (excerpted from Jesus and the Forces of Death), 2020
• “Circumcision,” 2:140–42; “Conversion and Proselytism,” 2:156–57; “Joseph, Apocryphon of (4Q371–373),” 1:293; and “Wilderness,” 2:799–800, for T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism. 2 vols. Edited by Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Daniel M. Gurtner. London: T&T Clark, 2019.
• “Gentile Circumcision,” on Bible Odyssey (SBL website).
• “The Letter to the Hebrews and the Jewish Law.” Pages 183–94 in So Great A Salvation: A Dialogue on the Atonement in Hebrews. Edited by Jon C. Laansma, George H. Guthrie, and Cynthia Westfall. Library of New Testament Studies 516. London: T&T Clark, 2019.
• “Introduction.” Pages 1–13 in The Ways that Often Parted: Essays in Honor of Joel Marcus. Edited by Lori Baron, Jill Hicks-Keeton, and Matthew Thiessen. SBL Early Christianity and Its Literature Series 24. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018.
• “Paul, the Animal Apocalypse, and Abraham’s Gentile Seed.” Pages 65–78 in The Ways that Often Parted: Essays in Honor of Joel Marcus. Edited by Lori Baron, Jill Hicks-Keeton, and Matthew Thiessen. SBL Early Christianity and Its Literature Series 24. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018.
• “The Construction of Gentiles in the Letter to the Ephesians.” Pages 13–25 in The Early Reception of Paul the Second Temple Jew. Edited by Isaac W. Oliver, Gabriele Boccaccini and Joshua Scott. Library of Second Temple Studies 92. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
• “Gentiles as Impure Animals in the Writings of Early Christ Followers.” Pages 19–32 in Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. Edited with Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and Wolfgang Grünstäudl. WUNT Series 1/394. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017.
• “Paul’s Interlocutor in Romans: The Problem of Identification” (co-authored with Runar Thorsteinsson and Rafael Rodríguez). Pages 1–38 in The So-Called Jew in Paul’s Letter to the Romans. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016.
• “Paul’s So-Called Jew and Lawless Lawkeeping.” Pages 59–83 in The So-Called Jew in Paul’s Letter to the Romans. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016.
• “Barsabbas, Joseph,” and “Barsabbas, Judas.” Pages 553–54 in Volume Three of The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Edited by Hans-Josef Klauck et al. 30 vols. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011.