Associate Professor of Religion at Butler University in Indianapolis. Interests include New Testament/Early Christianity, the Mandaeans, Religion and Science and Religion and Science Fiction.
Articles
On Hearing (Rather Than Reading) Intertextual Echoes: Christology and Monotheistic Scriptures in an Oral Context, Biblical Theology Bulletin (2013)
While recent studies of the New Testament have found the methods of intertextuality and orality...
Biblioblogging Our Matrix: Exploring the Potential and Perplexities of Academic Blogging, Bulletin for the Study of Religion (2010)
The phenomenon of "biblioblogging" has not only brought Biblical studies into close contact with popular...
Reading the Story of Miriai on Two Levels: Evidence from Mandaean Anti-Jewish Polemic about the Origins and Setting of Early Mandaeism, ARAM Periodical (2010)
New Testament scholars, drawing on Mandaean sources to shed light on the Gospel of John,...
History and fiction in the Acts of Thomas: The state of the question, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha (2008)
The Acts of Thomas has not yet received as much attention as the Gospel associated...
Was Jesus illegitimate? The evidence of his social interactions, ournal for the Study of the Historical Jesus (2007)
This article examines the social status of the historical Jesus in relation to recent studies...
Books
The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in its Jewish Context, Faculty Scholarship (2009)
Chapter 5: "Monotheism and Worship in the Book of Revelation" is an excerpt from The...
The Burial of Jesus: History and Faith (2008)
In The Burial of Jesus: History and Faith, Dr. James F. McGrath seeks to introduce...
John's Apologetic Christology (2001)
John's Apologetic Christology utilizes a model from the sociology of knowledge to shed light on...
Contributions to Books
Robots, Rights and Religion, Religion and Science Fiction (2011)
If there is one area in which science fiction has failed to quickly become historical...
The Desert of the Real: Christianity, Buddhism & Baudrillard in The Matrix Films and Popular Culture, Visions of the Human in Science Fiction and Cyberpunk (2010)
"Destroy This Temple": Issues of History in John 2, John, Jesus, and History, Volume 2: Aspects of Historicity in the Fourth Gospel (2009)
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Written Islands in an Oral Stream, Jesus and Paul: Global Perspectives in Honor of James D. G. Dunn for His 70th Birthday (2009)
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Jesus as False Prophet, Who Do My Opponents Say That I Am? Investigating the Accusations Against Jesus (2008)
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Reviews
Review of The Paraphrase of Shem (NH VII,1): Introduction, Translation and Commentary, Review of Biblical Literature (2012)
Article reviews the book "The Paraphrase of Shem (NH VII,1): Introduction, Translation and Commentary," by...
Review of The Messiah: A Comparative Study of the Enochic Son of Man and the Pauline Kyrios, Henoch Journal (2012)
Article reviews The Messiah: A Comparative Study of the Enochic Son of Man and the...
Review of Jesus, Gnosis and Dogma, Review of Biblical Literature (2011)
Article reviews the book "Jesus, Gnosis and Dogma" by Riemer Roukema.
Review of The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity, Review of Biblical Literature (2011)
Article reviews the book "The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity" by David...
Review of Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan, editors, So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy, Journal of Postcolonia Theory and Theology (2011)
Article reviews the book So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Presentations
Winning Strategies from IR All-Stars (with Chad Bauman, Laura Behling, Jennifer Laherty, David Mason, Brad Matthies, Mark Newton, Charles Watkinson, and David Stout), Digital Commons Events (2011)
Your faculty and students have been producing scholarly work for many years. Is it locked...
The Blogging Revolution: New Technologies and their Impact on How we do Scholarship, Conference Paper (2010)
What follows below is the text of my presentation at the session on blogging and...