Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible; Philology of the Septuagint and Cognate Studies; Hellenistic Judaism; Humanism and Scriptural Interpretation of Renaissance Spain
Elected 2015
Social, economic, and cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean; the transformation of the Roman empire into a predominantly Christian one; slavery, “Augustine the Economist,” imperial representation, war and resilience
Theology and mental health, theology of disability, dementia, spirituality health and healing, practical theology, qualitative research methods, ecclesiology and ethnography, end of life care, theodicy and the problem of evil.
Qur’anic studies (including both the historical and literary study of the Qur’an itself and its history of interpretation); late antique Arabia and the life of Muhammad; pre-modern Islamic intellectual history
