Classics and Ancient History
Elected 1985
The social & intellectual history of late antiquity, & early Christian (patristic) studies, in the Mediterranean world of the third to the seventh century
The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts
The relationship between space and time in ancient historical narratives; Greek and Roman geographical traditions as reflective of changing geopolitical realities; kingly power in the Roman Principate