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    I’m a grad student in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity. I focus on Gospels, early Jewish and early Christian biblical interpretation, ecstatic prophecy, and women in antiquity.

    Education

    University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN                                                                     est. 2026
    MA in Classics, PhD in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity

    Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT                                                                                     2020
    STM in New Testament

    Bethlehem College & Seminary, Minneapolis, MN                                                      2015, 2019
    BTh, MDiv in Biblical Exegesis

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      Publications

      “John 21:15–19 as a Prophetic Succession: A Performed Experimental Intertextual Reading in Light of 2 Kings 2:1–18.” Journal of Biblical Literature 143 (2024): forthcoming.
      “The Voice behind the Mask: Problematizing the Theater Metaphor for Ecstatic Prophecy in Plutarch’s De Pythiae Oraculis.” Classical Quarterly 73 (2023): forthcoming.
      “Prophecy in Philo and the Fourth Gospel: Beyond Wayne Meeks’s Prophet-King.” Novum Testamentum 65 (2023): 192–204.
      “Heavenly Writing and the Authority of Rewritten Scripture: Reevaluating Explicit References to the Pentateuch in Jubilees.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 32 (2022–2023): 285–99.
      “Flipping Tables and Building Temples: An Intertextual Reading of Psalm 68:10 LXX in John 2:17.” Horizons in Biblical Theology 43 (2021): 70–98.
      “Travel as a Political and Spiritual Act: A Conversation with Rick Steves.” Yale Journal of International Affairs. 21 February 2020. https://www.yalejournal.org/publications/travel-as-a-political-and-spiritual-act-a-conversation-with-rick-steves.

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