Dr. Shelly Matthews
Religion Department
Campus Address: Furman Hall 214F
Telephone: (864) 294-3741
e-mail: Shelly.Matthews@furman.edu

Course Descriptions:

Introduction to Biblical Literature

New Testament and Early Christianity

Life and Religion of Paul

Jesus and the Gospels

SPECIAL TOPIC WINTER 2006:

Critical Issues in Biblical Studies: Feminist Biblical Interpretation


COURSE RELATED LINKS


Canon Formation. Click here for exercises concerning NT canon.
New Testament Gateway
Jesus on PBS. The web supplement to the Frontline video, From Jesus to Christ
Gospel Parallels.
The Early Church Fathers. The Ante-Nicene & Nicene/Post-Nicene Fathers series.
Ancient History Sourcebook. Israel, Greece, Rome.
The Perseus Project.  A collection of ancient texts, art, and archaeological artifacts.
Diotima. On-line resources for the study of women and gender in the ancient world.

(Image: Celtic Illumination (8th cent.) Beginning of the Gospel according to St. John, from the book of Kells, Trinity College, Dublin)

 

NEW IN 2005 with T & T Clark:

This volume takes up crucial methodological questions about how to read passages suggesting violence among Jews in texts that eventually became part of the New Testameant canon. It situates this intra-religious violence within the violence of the Roman Imperial order.

Contributors include: John Gager, with E. Leigh Gibson (Paul); Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre (Q); Richard Horsley (Historical Jesus); John Marshall (Revelation); Adele Reinhartz (Gospel of John); Warren Carter (Gospel of Matthew) Shelly Matthews (Acts);and David Frankfurter (Afterword)

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Curriculum Vitae


Updated August 2005