About
Ian N Mills is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at Hamilton College. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts in Classics, Religious Studies, and Biblical Studies from the University of Minnesota. His research includes the production, transmission, and reception of pluriform narrative traditions in antiquity. His first monograph, The Gospel Hypothesis (Fortress Press), explores early Christian appropriations of Hellenistic literary conventions for describing and evaluating different versions of the same story. Mills is also the co-host of the New Testament Review, a podcast dedicated to making important works of scholarship available to the wider public. Education
Ph.D., New Testament, Duke University (2021)
M.A., Religion, Duke University (2018)
B.A., Classics, Religion, Biblical Studies, University of Minnesota (2014) Publications
Books
The Hypothesis of the Gospels: The Gospels and Pluriform Literary Traditions in Antiquity, Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press (Under Contract).
Instructor’s Manual for Bart D. Ehrman, A Brief Introduction to the New Testament, 5th ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Peer Reviewed Journals
“Marcion as Textual Critic?: Heresiological Rhetoric and the Conventions of Roman Scholarship.” Journal of Early Christian Studies (Forthcoming in 2024).
“Tatian’s Diatessaron as ‘Canonical’ Gospel: Walter Bauer and the Reception of Christian ‘Apocrypha.’” Studia Patristica 127.23 (2021): 215-228.
“Zacchaeus and the Unripe Figs: A New Argument for the Original Language of Tatian’s Diatessaron.” New Testament Studies 66.2 (2020): 208-227.
“Pagan Readers of Christian Scripture: The Role of Books in Early Autobiographical Conversion Narratives.” Vigiliae Christianae 73.5 (2019): 481-506.
Book Chapters and Other Publications
“John’s Jesus in Tatian’s Diatessaron and the Muratorian Fragment” in John, Jesus, and History Vol. 4, (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, Forthcoming in 2024).
“Combining Gospels: P.Oxy. 5575 in Context.” Text and Canon Institute (Forthcoming in December 2023).
“Teaching with Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) at Fifty Years.” The Commons (Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life, October 2023).
“The Old Syriac Gospels and Tatian’s Diatessaron, Revisited: The Text Critical Use of a Rival Tradition” in At One Remove: Versions and Other Indirect Evidence for the New Testament (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020): 43-64.
“The Wrong Harmony: Against the Diatessaronic Character of the Dura Fragment” in eds. Matthew R. Crawford and Nicholas Zola, The Gospel of Tatian: Exploring the Character and Text of the Diatessaron (London: T&T Clark, 2019): 145-170.
Book Reviews
Review of James Barker, Tatian’s Diatessaron: Composition, Redaction, Recension, and Reception, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. in TC: Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 28 (2023), 207-211.
Review of Review of Francis Watson, What is a Gospel? Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2022. Review of Biblical Literature (2023).
Book Note on Margaret M. Mitchell, Paul and the Emergence of Christian Textuality: Early Christian Literary Culture in Context. Volume I. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017 in Ancient Jew Review (2019).
Review of Dieter T. Roth, (2015) The Text of Marcion’s Gospel. New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents 49. Leiden: Brill in Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies 49 (2018): 273-275. Memberships
Society of Biblical Literature
North American Patristics Society
ΦΒΚ Honor Society
