| Department of Religion & Philosophy
Roanoke College, Salem, VA 24153 berenson@roanoke.edu 540-375-2377 (ph) 540-375-2577 (fax) |
1013 Barrens Village Court |
| Ph.D. | 1995 | Harvard University, Study of Religion, New Testament and Christian Origins |
| M.A. | 1990 | Harvard University, Study of Religion, New Testament and Christian Origins |
| A.B. | 1985 | Stanford University, Classics (with distinction) |
| "Ephesians and the Problem of Colossians: Interpretation of Texts and Traditions in Eph 1:1-2:10." Advisors: Professors Helmut Koester, François Bovon, and Gregory Nagy |
| 2008-
2001-
1996-2001 |
Professor of Religion
Associate Professor of Religion Assistant Professor
of Religion
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Courses taught: Hebrew Scriptures, Hebrew Prophets and Prophecy, New Testament, Life and Teachings of Jesus, Life and Teachings of Paul, Development of Christianity, Religions of the Hellenistic World, The Literature of John, Values and the Responsible Life, Interpretation of the Book of Revelation, The Gospel of Matthew, Jesus in Literature, Art, and Film, Feminist Readings of the Bible, Strange Tales from the Bible |
| 2000- | Associate Book Review Editor
Sixteenth Century Journal Jewish culture and Orthodox studies |
| Paul; Deutero-Pauline Christianity; Origin of the Pauline Corpus; Greco-Roman Religions; Conflicts in Early Christian Communities |
“Barabbas, the Scapegoat Ritual, and the Development of the Passion Narrative,” Harvard Theological Review 100:3 (2007): 309-334.
Untitled contribution (pp. 107-9) to The Fabric of Early Christianity: Reflections in Honor of Helmut Koester by Fifty Years of Harvard Students, edited by James D. Smith III and Philip Sellew. Eugene, Or.: Pickwick, 2006.
Philostratus’s Heroikos: Religion and Cultural Identity in the Third Century C.E. Edited with Ellen B. Aitken. Writings From the Greco-Roman World 6. Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004..
Review of The Meaning of Helen: In Search of an Ancient Icon, by Robert Emmet Meagher. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.8.13. Available on-line at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2003/2003-08-13.html.
"The Divine Trickster in John: A Tale of Two Weddings," pp. 48-77 in A Feminist Companion to John, vol. 1, edited by Amy-Jill Levine. Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.
Flavius Philostratus: On Heroes. With Ellen B. Aitken. Writings From the Greco-Roman World 3. Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003. Simultaneous published in hardcover by Brill (Leiden), 2003.
"Between Text and Sermon. Micah 3:5-12." Interpretation 56 (Oct. 2002): 413-16.
Flavius Philostratus: Heroikos. With Ellen B. Aitken. Writings From the Greco-Roman World 1. Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.
Introduction and Annotations for Ephesians and Colossians. In New Oxford Annotated Bible, revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Review of Families and Family Relations as Represented in Early Judaisms and Early Christianities: Texts and Fictions, edited by Jan Willem van Henten and Athalya Brenner. Journal of Biblical Literature 121/2 (2002) 364-66. Also available through Review of Biblical Literature at http://bookreviews.org/pdf/1174_2883.pdf
Review of Philippians. From People to Letter, by Peter Oakes. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.12.02. Available on-line at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2001/2001-12-02.html.
Review of One Jesus, Many Christs. How Jesus Inspired Not One True Christianity, But Many, by Gregory J. Riley. Journal of Biblical Literature 119/1 (2000) 131-33. Also available through Review of Biblical Literature at http://bookreviews.org/pdf/2036_1059.pdf
Review of Ephesians: Abingdon New Testament Commentaries, by Pheme Perkins. Interpretation 52/3 (July 1998) 313-14.
Review of The Graeco-Roman Context of Early Christian Literature, by Roman Garrison. Journal of Biblical Literature 118/3 (1999) 569-71. Also available through Review of Biblical Literature at http://bookreviews.org/pdf/2444_1515.pdf
"Colossians." In Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, 2 vols., edited by John H. Hayes, 1.206-10. Nashville: Abingdon. 1999.
"Collection/Contribution, " "Ethnarch," and "Lex Talionis." In Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, edited by David Noel Freedman, 268-69; 434; 807. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.
"Overview of the Tower of the Winds," "Roof of the Tower of the Winds," "Exterior View of Southern Annex," "Sculpture and Sundial of Southwest Wind (Lips)," "Interior Floor Cuttings of the Tower of the Winds." In Archaeological Resources for New Testament Studies: A collection of slides on religion and culture in antiquity. Vol. 2. Athens C, edited by Helmut Koester and Holland L. Hendrix. Valley Forge, Penn.: Trinity Press, 1994.
“New Tombs and Empty Tombs: Where/Was Jesus Buried?” Paper presented at the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, GA, March 2008.
Chair of “Wisdom & Apocalypticism” session to be held at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2007.
“Heroic Epiphany and Eros in the Johannine Farewell Discourse.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, Texas, November 22, 2004.
Chair and organizer (with Ellen B. Aitken) of “Hero Cult and Early Christianity,” a special session of the “Late Antiquity in Interdisciplinary Perspective Section” to be held at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, Texas, November 2004.
Organizer (with Ellen B. Aitken) of "Philostratus's Heroikos, Religion and Cultural Identity." Conference held at Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 4-6, 2001.
"The Heroikos of Philostratus: A Response." Paper presented at the conference "Philostratus's Heroikos, Religion and Cultural Identity." Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 5, 2001.
"A Tale of Two Weddings: The Divine Trickster in John." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, Massachusetts, November 21, 1999.
"The Rhetoric of Pronouns: Creating a Vision of the Pauline Church." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, Massachusetts, November 22, 1999.
"Pauline Studies." Presider at the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Macon, Georgia, March 15, 1997.
"Using Ephesians as a First Century Textual Witness to Colossians." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 24, 1996.
"The Exalted Role of Israel in the History of Salvation: Ephesians' Interpretation of Traditions and Pauline Formulations in Romans 8:15-34." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1995.
"Gentile Christians in Ephesians: Authorial Distance and the Creation of Dependency in Eph 1:15-19." Paper presented at the Tri-Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, Massachusetts, April 1, 1995.
"Eph 1:10 in Patristic Exegesis: Controlling the Meaning of a Volatile Tradition." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, Illinois, November 20, 1994.
"Beyond 'Summing Up': A reevaluation of anakephalaiosasthai in Eph 1:10 in light of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and oral traditions in the Pauline churches." Paper presented at the New England Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association, Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, March 25, 1994.
"The Tower of the Winds: Description, Reconstruction, and Dating." Paper presented during the Archaeology of the World of the New Testament Colloquium, Athens, May 1989.