Teaching Experience

Instructor in Bible, Freed-Hardeman University, 2010–2012

Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, Freed-Hardeman University, 2012–2018

Associate Professor of Biblical Studies, Freed-Hardeman University, 2018–present

Administrative Experience

Program coordinator, Master of Arts (New Testament), 2014–present

Program coordinator, Master of Arts (Old Testament), 2016–present

Director, Graduate School of Theology, 2018–present

Professional Administration and societies

Chair, Society of Biblical Literature Philo of Alexandria Seminar

Member, Gifts and Awards Committee, North American Patristics Society 

Member, Advisory Board, The Studia Philonica Annual

Member, Editorial Board, Studia Philonica Monographs Series

Member, International Philo Bibliography Project

Member, Society of Biblical Literature

Member, Association Internationale d’Études Patristiques/International Association of Patristic Studies

Member, Society for Classical Studies (formerly the American Philological Association)

Member, North American Patristics Society

select Academic Publications

Books

Philo of Alexandria On the Sacrifices of Abel and Cain: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series. Leiden: Brill, in progress. 

Didymus the Blind and the Alexandrian Christian Reception of Philo. Studia Philonica Monographs 8. Atlanta: SBL, 2017.

Articles and Essays

"Philo's Reception in Didymus of Alexandria," in The Reception of Philo of Alexandria. Edited by Courtney Friesen, David Lincicum, and David Runia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

"Atheism in Philo of Alexandria." The Studia Philonica Annual 34 (2022): forthcoming.

“Origen’s Use of Philo Judaeus.” Pages 83–99 in the Oxford Handbook of Origen. Edited by Ronald E. Heine and Katherine Jo Torjesen. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

"Logos in Second Temple/Hellenistic Judaism," in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Vol. 16: Lectionaries to Lots. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.

"Logos in Patristics and Orthodox Churches," in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 16: Lectionaries to Lots. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.

“Vulgate Proverbs,” Pages 271-275 in the Textual History of the Bible. Vol. 1C. Edited by Armin Lange and Emmanuel Tov. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

“Vulgate Psalms,” Pages 104-110 in the Textual History of the Bible. Vol. 1C. Edited by Armin Lange and Emmanuel Tov. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

"Origen in the Likeness of Philo." Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 12 (2017): 1-13.

“The Philonic and the Pauline: Hagar and Sarah in the Exegesis of Didymus the Blind.” The Studia Philonica Annual 26 (2014): 57–77.

Book Reviews

Carl R. Holladay, Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament. WUNT 468. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. The Studia Philonica Annual 34 (2022), forthcoming.

Sébastien Morlet and Olivier Munnich (eds.), Les études philoniennes: Regards sur cinquante ans de recherche (1967-2017). SPA 13. Leiden: Brill, 2021. The Studia Philonica Annual 34 (2022), forthcoming.

 Paul M.C. Elliot, Creation and Literary Re-Creation: Ambrose’s Use of Philo in the Hexaemeral Letters. Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics 72. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2017. The Studia Philonica Annual 33 (2021), 335–37. 

Sean A. Adams and Seth M. Ehorn, Composite Citations in Antiquity. Vol. 1: Jewish, Graeco-Roman, and Early Christian Uses. LNTS 525. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2018. The Studia Philonica Annual 31 (2019), 310–13.

Gudrun Holz, Die Nichtigkeit des Menschen und die Übermacht Gottes: Studien zur Gottes- und Selbsterkenntnis bei Paulus, Philo und in der Stoa. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. Review of Biblical Literature, 4/18/19 (https://www.bookreviews.org/BookDetail.asp?TitleId=12266

Matthew Kraus, Jewish, Christian, and Classical Exegetical Traditions in Jerome’s Translation of the Book of Exodus. VCSup 141. Leiden: Brill, 2017. H-Judaic Reviews, August 2018 (https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52293).

Select Conference presentations

“Platonic Patternism and the Ideal Creation: The Nachleben of Philo’s De Opificio Mundi 15–25 in Alexandrian Christianity,” The Pattern and the Image: Insights from the Alexandrian Exegetical Tradition. Vratislav Hall, K Rotundě 100/10, Prague – Vyšehrad. November 2022.

“Leviticus: A Priestly Theology of Ancient Israel.” Christian Scholars Conference, Nashville, TN, June 2022.

“Divine Anthropomorphism in Philo and Origen.” North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May 2022.

“Atheism in Philo of Alexandria.” SBL National Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 2021.

“Biblical Mythology, Minimalism, and the Serpent of Genesis 3: Inner-Jewish Apologetics in Philo of Alexandria.” Christian Scholars Conference, Nashville, TN, June 2021.

“Philosophical Atheism in Philo and Origen.” North American Patristics Society, virtual meeting, May 2021.

"Philo's Allegory of Lady Virtue and Dame Pleasure: A Sample Commentary on Sacr. 19–33." SBL National Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2018.

“A Little Cain in All of Us: De Cherubim as an Introduction to Philo’s ‘Cain Trilogy’.” SBL National Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2017.

“Philo or Paul? The Hagar Allegory in Alexandrian Patristic Theology.” SBL National Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 2016

“The Reception of Philonic Arithmological Exegesis in Didymus the Blind's Commentary on Genesis.” SBL National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November, 2015.

“Origen in the Likeness of Philo: Eusebius of Caesarea’s Portrait of the Model Scholar.” Christian Scholar’s Conference, Abilene, TX, June, 2015