2024-2025
Writing Greco-Roman Lives: Ancient Biography from Alexander to Jesus and beyond (HUMA 4109; 2024-25; full year)
- Course outline
- Discussion notes
Honouring the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean, aka Greek and Roman Religion (HUMA 3105; 2024-25; full year; version C ethnicity)
A Cultural History of Satan: Evil Personified in Early Judean Culture and in Christianity (HUMA 3795; Winter 2025; Remote by zoom)
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Previous years:
Diversity in Early Christianity (I-II CE) (HUMA 4825; 2022-23)
A Cultural History of Satan: Evil Personified in Early Judean Culture and in Christianity (HUMA 3795; Winter 2022; Remote)
Honouring the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean, aka Greek and Roman Religion (HUMA 3105; 2021-22; Remote)
The Conflict of Religions in the Roman Empire: Case Studies on Judeans and a Judean Movement (HIST 5025; grad course, Winter 2022)
Later Greek Prose (GK 3080/4080; Winter 2022)
- Course outline (Harland portion only)
Methods in the Study of Religion (HUMA 3803; Fall 2021; in-person on campus)
Visions of the End: Early Judean and Christian Apocalypticism (HUMA 4819; Fall 2021; Remote)
Diversity in Early Christianity (I-II CE) (HUMA 4825; 2020-21)
Honouring the Gods in the Greco-Roman World (aka “Greek and Roman Religion” HUMA 3105; 2019-20; version C)
Origins of Christianity, part 2 – Jesus Adherents as Minorities in the Diaspora (HUMA 3422; version B; Winter 2019)
Origins of Christianity, part 1 – Pauline Communities and Issues of Ethnicity (aka “Interpreting the New Testament; HUMA 3421; version B; Fall 2019)
Visions of the End: Apocalypticism and Responses to Power (HUMA 4819; 3 credit version B; Fall 2019)
A Cultural History of Satan: Evil Personified in Early Judean Culture and in Christianity (HUMA 3795; Winter 2019)
Diversity in Early Christianity (I-II CE) (HUMA 4825; 2015-16)
- Course outline
- Discussion notes
- Blog postings: Diversity series (especially series 1.x)
Greek and Roman Religion: Honouring the Gods (HUMA 3105; 2017-18; version B)
The Conflict of Religions in the Roman Empire: Case Studies on Judeans and a Judean Movement (HIST 5025; grad course, Winter 2018)
Interpreting the New Testament, part 1 – Paul and His Communities (HUMA 3421; Fall 2017)
Founders of Christianity: Introduction to Early Christian Writings (version A; 2015-16)
Diversity in Early Christianity (I-II CE) (2015-16)
- Course outline
- Discussion notes
- Blog postings: Diversity series (especially series 1.x)
Greek and Roman Religion: Honouring the Gods (HUMA 3105; 2014-2015; version B)
The Ancient Greek and Roman Novel (HUMA 4107; 2014-2015)
- Course outline
- Study guide: Analytical questions for seminar leadership and discussions
- Discussion notes
The Conflict of Religions in the Roman Empire: Case Studies on Judeans and a Judean Movement (HIST 5025; grad course, Fall 2014)
Founders of Christianity: Introduction to Early Christian Writings (version A; 2013-2014)
Visions of the End: Early Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism (3 credit version; Winter 2014)
- Course outline
- Discussion notes
- Online readings
- Blog postings on apocalypticism (especially series “End 1.x”)
Greek and Roman Religion: Honouring the Gods (HUMA 3105; 2012-2013; full-year undergrad; version B)
The Conflict of Religions in the Roman Empire: Case Studies on Judeans and a Judean Movement (HIST 5025; graduate course, Winter 2012)
A Cultural History of Satan: Evil Personified in Early Judaism and in Christianity (HUMA 3795; Winter 2011)
Greek and Roman Religion: Honouring the Gods (HUMA 3105; 2010-2011; full-year undergrad; version A)
Visions of the End: Early Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism (HUMA 4819; 2010-2011; 6 credit full-year version)
Honouring the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean: A Regional Study of Asia Minor (graduate course; Winter 2009)
Founders of Christianity: Introduction to Early Christian Writings (version B; 2008-2009)
Diversity in Early Christianity (I-II CE) (2007-2008)
- Course outline
- Discussion notes
- Online readings
- Blog postings: Diversity series (especially series 1.x)
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Pre-York University Courses Taught:
- Biblical Studies II: Christian Origins (Winter 2006)
- Social and Cultural History of Christianity (a.k.a. Mystics, Heretics, and Reformers) (Fall 2005)
- On the Margins of Christianity: Heresy, Dissidence, and the End of the World (Winter 2005)
- Diversity in Early Christianity: New Testament Apocrypha and “Gnostic” Writings (graduate course; Fall 2005)
- Paul of Tarsus and His Communities (graduate course; Fall 2004)
- Roots of Western Religions: Ancient Near East (Mesopotamia) (Fall 2003)
- Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and in Christianity (graduate course; Fall 2003)
- Diversity in Early Christianity: Asia Minor (graduate course; Fall 2002)
- Women and Religion: Christianity (Winter 2002)
- Mystery Religions in the Ancient Mediterranean (Fall 2002)
- The Jewish World in New Testament Times (Winter 2001)
- The Christian Religious Tradition (2000-01)