Stephen Ahearne-Kroll / University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Stephen Ahearne-Kroll’s work examines the development of Christianity in its earliest stages and in the literature of the New Testament. He is most interested in how Greek and Roman culture shaped emergent Christianity in various locations around the ancient Mediterranean. As such, his work has recently centered on considering how Greek and Roman religious culture affected the reception of Paul’s presentation of his god (Paul’s Chord of Gods, forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press). His future work will focus on describing and theorizing localized ancient Mediterranean religious culture.
Tejas Aralere / University of New Hampshire
Tejas S. Aralere is an assistant professor of Classics and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. He holds a PhD in Classics Literature and Theory with a second emphasis in Ancient Mediterranean Studies from UC Santa Barbara where he also intensively studied Sanskrit literature in the Religious Studies Department. Working from primary sources in all three ancient languages, Tejas wrote his dissertation titled “Astrological Melothesia in Ancient Rome and India: Intercultural Conversations in Religion, Medicine, and Technical Science” which was co-advised by Classics and Religious studies. He’s currently editing it into his first monograph. While his primary research interest is broadly in ancient science, you can read more about his other research interests here.
Marc Zvi Brettler / Duke University
Marc Brettler is member of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Duke University. He is the author of many books and articles on the Bible as history, metaphors and the Bible, gender and the Bible, the Jewish interpretation of the Bible, and the place of the New Testament in Judaism. His most recent book is The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews Christians Read the Same Story Differently (with Amy-Jill Levine).
Sarah E. Rollens / Rhodes College
Sarah Rollens is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College and the author of the author of Framing Social Criticism in the Jesus Movement: The Ideological Project in the Sayings Gospel Q (2014). She has previously taught at the University of Toronto, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and University of Alabama. Her current research project deals with violent imagery in early Christian texts. This research combines her broader interests in Christian origins, social theory, scribalism, identity formation, the ancient Mediterranean world, and the Synoptic gospels.
The Future of the Past Lab 