Ryan Schellenberg
Associate Professor of New Testament
Curriculum vitae
Education
Ph.D., University of St. Michael’s College (University of Toronto), 2012
M.A., Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, 2005
B.A., Canadian Mennonite University, 2003
Areas of expertise
Paul; prison in the ancient world; social history of early Christianity; early Christian emotions; Luke and Acts; parables of Jesus.
Selected published works
Abject Joy: Paul, Prison, and the Art of Making Do. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul. Edited with Heidi Wendt. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2022.
“‘Making My Prayer with Joy’: Epistolary Prayer as Emotional Practice in Philippians and 1 Thessalonians.” Novum Testamentum 64 (2022): 79–98.
“Subsistence, Swapping, and Paul’s Rhetoric of Generosity.” Journal of Biblical Literature 137 (2018): 215–34.
“Paul, Samson Occom, and the Constraints of Boasting: A Comparative Rereading of 2 Corinthians 10–13.” Harvard Theological Review 109 (2016): 512–35.
Rethinking Paul’s Rhetorical Education: Comparative Rhetoric and 2 Corinthians 10–13. Early Christianity and Its Literature 10. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013.
Video
"Reading Philippians in the Age of Mass Incarceration"
Faculty lecture, May 7, 2019