Robyn Faith Walsh
American scholar of early Christianity and Greco-Roman literature, Associate Professor at the University of Miami, and author of 'The Origins of Early Christian Literature' (Cambridge University Press, 2021), focusing on the New Testament within its broader literary and cultural contexts.
Books
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1. The Origins Of Early Christian Literature
Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture
Reframes the origin of early Christian texts as products of educated Greco-Roman cultural producers rather than grassroots community traditions. Drawing on evidence from ancient education, social networks, and literary mimesis, it presents the Gospels and related writings as sophisticated works participating in the intertextual, competitive milieu of the Second Sophistic. Claims of eyewitness testimony and prophetic inspiration are recast as literary conventions, highlighting authorial craft, classical models, and circulation within elite networks.
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