
Anthony Le Donne
Professor of New Testament
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Anthony teaches New Testament, Second Temple Judaism and Greek courses. His research interests are Jewish-Christian relations, historical Jesus research and Social Memory theory. He is Executive Editor of Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.
EDUCATION
PhD, Durham University, UK (2007)
PUBLICATIONS
Near Christianity: How Journeys Along Jewish-Christian Borders Saved My Faith In God (Zondervan, 2016)
The Wife of Jesus: Ancient Texts and Modern Scandals (One World Publications, 2013)
Historical Jesus: What Can We Know and How We Can Know It? (Eerdmans, 2011)
The Historiographical Jesus: Memory, Typology and the Son of David (Baylor University Press, 2009)
Soundings in the Religion of Jesus: Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship (Fortress, 2012)
Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity (T&T Clark, 2012)
The Fourth Gospel in Ancient Media Culture (T&T Clark, 2011)
“The Improper Offering of Ananias and Sapphira,” New Testament Studies 59.3 (2013): 346-364
“The Quest for the Historical Jesus: A Revisionist History through the Lens of Jewish-Christian Relations,” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 10.1 (2012): 63-86.
PROFESSIONAL
Anthony is Executive Editor for the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus and a co-founder of the “Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts” consultation for the Society of Biblical Literature. He is a lay-member of the Presbyterian Church (USA).