Matthew Thiessen Associate Professor McMaster University Commons username: @mattthiessen socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/people/thiessen-matthew Following 49 members View ProfileActivitySites 0CORE deposits 21Following 49Followers 55Groups 8DiscussionsDocs Academic InterestsAncient GreeceAncient Jewish LiteratureAncient JudaismGospelsHebrew BibleJewish studiesNew TestamantPaul Commons GroupsHCAncient Greece & RomeAncient Jew ReviewAncient Near EastBiblical StudiesDead Sea ScrollsLate AntiquityNew TestamentReligious Studies Recent Commons Activity deposited Did Jesus Start a New Religio… in the group New Testament deposited Did Jesus Start a New Religio… in the group Biblical Studies deposited Did Jesus Start a New Religio… deposited Conversion, Jewish in the group Religious Studies deposited Conversion, Jewish in the group Biblical Studies Education Duke University, Ph.D. in Religion, 2010 Oxford University, M.St. in Jewish Studies, 2004 Trinity Western University, M.A. in Biblical Studies, 2003 Work Shared in COREMonographsPaul and the Gentile ProblemContesting Conversion: Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and ChristianityBooksThe So-Called Jew in Paul’s Letter to the RomansArticlesConversion, JewishAseneth’s Eight-Day Transformation as Scriptural Justification for ConversionA Buried Pentateuchal Allusion to the Resurrection in Mark 12:25‘The Rock Was Christ’: The Fluidity of Christ’s Body in 1 Cor. 10.4Revisiting the Proselutos in ‘the LXX’Abolishers of the Law in Early Judaism and Matthew 5,17–20Luke 2:22, Leviticus 12, and Parturient ImpurityThe Text of Genesis 17:14The Function of a Conjunction: Inclusivist or Exclusivist Strategies in Ezra 6.21 and Nehemiah 10.29–30?Hebrews 12.5–13, the Wilderness Period, and Israel’s Discipline4Q372 1 and the Continuation of Joseph’s ExileHebrews and the End of the ExodusThe Form and Function of the Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:1–43)Paul’s Argument against Gentile Circumcision in Romans 2:17–29The Many for One or One for the Many: Reading Mark 10:45 in the Roman EmpireBook chaptersDid Jesus Start a New Religion?Paul’s Interlocutor in Romans: The Problem of IdentificationPaul’s So-Called Jew and Lawless Lawkeeping Blog Posts