December 2, 2019

Book Note | Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle

Trotti, Giovanni Battista, Circle of, Italian; 1555-1619. 1590-1610. Saint Paul. Drawings and Watercolors, ink with wash, Drawing, Prints and Drawings. Place: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, Chicago, Illino… — Trotti, Giovanni Battista, Circle of, Italian; 1555-1619. 1590-1610. Saint Paul. Drawings and Watercolors, ink with wash, Drawing, Prints and Drawings. Place: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1922.598, http://www.artic.edu/aic/. https://library.artstor.org/asset/AMICO_CHICAGO_1031150000.

How does Paul come to understand himself as a messenger of Jesus? How did that message change in those hazy decades between the life of the historical Jesus and Paul’s co-writings?

June 25, 2019

Dissertation Spotlight | Divine Accounting: Theo-Economics in the Letter to the Philippians

by Jennifer Quigley in Articles

Emperor Bust Weight, 1st c. CE (Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Walter C. Baker).

In the ancient Mediterranean, the divine was an active participant in the economy. In Divine Accounting: Theo-Economics in the Letter to the Philippians, I investigate how early Christ-followers used financial language to articulate and imagine their relationship to the divine.

November 5, 2018

Book Note | A Spiritual Economy: Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus

by Jennifer Quigley in Book Notes

A Spiritual Economy is a helpful addition to recent studies in gifts in the letters of Paul, and its multidisciplinary engagement contributes to the study of religion in antiquity and to broader conversations in history, sociology, and anthropology about gift exchange.

January 25, 2017

Book Note | The People Beside Paul: The Philippian Assembly and History from Below

by Jennifer Quigley in Book Notes

"How does an orientation towards “a people’s history,” following Howard Zinn, help scholars ask new questions about the context and content of Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, a brief but important text in the Pauline corpus?"