• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Wake Forest University
• Master of Divinity (MDIV), Duke University
• Master of Arts (MA), Yale University
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Yale University

Research Interests: 

Early Christian history, literature, and thought; the historical Jesus; Pauline Studies; history of the text and canon of the New Testament; social description of early Christianity; bridgework with patristics: apostolic fathers, apologists, apocryphal literature, early history of the liturgy.