Professor Wayne Meeks FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 1992
- Year of death
- 2023
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Summary
Wayne A. Meeks is Woolsey Professor of Biblical Studies Emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies, Yale University, where he taught from 1969 until 1999. He was Chairman of the Department 1972-75, Acting Chairman 1978-79, 1982-83, and Director of the Division of the Humanities of the University 1988-91. Earlier, he taught at Indiana University 1966-69 and Dartmouth College 1964-65. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1956, he served as a university pastor for a time in Memphis and later at Yale. He has been president of the two leading professional societies in his field, the Society of Biblical Literature (1985) and Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (2004-2005). He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala and is a fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is best known for his publications on the writings of the apostle Paul and on the Fourth Gospel, for his investigation of the social history of earliest Christianity, and for work on the formation of early Christian morality.
Last post
Department of Religious Studies, Yale University Woolsey Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies
1999 -
Publications
The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul
Wayne Meeks - Published in 2003 by Yale University Press
In Search of the Early Christians: Selected Essays.
Wayne Meeks - Published in 2002 by Yale University Press
The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries
Wayne Meeks - Published in 1993 by Yale University Press
The Moral World of the First Christians
Wayne Meeks - Published in 1986 by Westminster/John Knox Press
The Prophet-King: Moses Traditions and the Johannine Christology
Wayne Meeks - Published in 1967 by Brill
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