This page offers a brief description of my academic interests, education, and academic associations and/or memberships.

Research Interests:

Interpreting the Bible from a social-scientific/anthropological perspective (in particular applying modern ethnicity theory).  Here I am much influenced by the work of Dennis Duling and Philip Esler.

This social-scientific approach has been applied to:

  • The Sayings Gospel Q (Here particularly influenced by John Kloppenborg)
  • Historical Jesus Studies
  • Early Judaism
  • Currently I am working on Paul and also the “New Perspective” as set out by James Dunn.

Other interests include:

  • The Gospels
  • Social Identity Theory
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Biblical Archeology

Education:

1993
Bachelor of Building Arts (University of Port Elizabeth)

2001
BA Honours in Biblical Studies (Wits)

2003
MA in Biblical Studies (Wits)

2006
PhD in the New Testament (University of Pretoria)

Academic Association / Society Memberships:

Research associate of Prof Dr Andries Van Aarde, at the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria.
- May 2006 to current.

The Context Group
- 2007 to current.

The New Testament Society of South Africa
- 2007 to current.