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Margaret M. Mitchell

Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature in the Divinity School; also in the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature

M.A., Ph.D. (University of Chicago)

Margaret Mitchell's research and teaching span a range of topics in New Testament and early Christian writings in their relationship to the wider Greco-Roman world and literary culture in which they were composed, as well as in the legacies of those texts as sacred scripture for Christian communities in later antiquity and beyond. She is the author of Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation: An Exegetical Investigation of the Language and Composition of 1 Corinthians and The Heavenly Trumpet: John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Interpretation, and editor (with Frances M. Young) of The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 1 (Origins to Constantine). A volume of translations and analyses of early Christian exegesis of the "Belly-Myther" of Endor story in 1 Samuel 28 (co-authored with Rowan A. Greer) has just appeared (summer, 2007) in the Writings from the Greco-Roman World series.

Prof. Mitchell is a member of the Goodspeed Manuscript Team, which is currently fashioning online digital versions of the 65 biblical manuscripts held by Regenstein Special Collections, for use in teaching and research, including a 2006 article (co-authored with Patricia A. Duncan) on the mysterious mini-codex known as "Archaic Mark." Among her recent studies on Christian origins in popular culture are "How Biblical is the Christian Right?" and "Aramaica Veritas and the Occluded Orientalism of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ."