Gregory Peter Fewster

My research investigates the religious and textual cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, focusing especially on authorship and pseudepigraphy, letters, the Pauline corpus, papyrology, ancient philology, and the acquisition and interpretation of manuscripts in the modern period. At MF, I am working on a new project "Beyond the Religion of the Book: Epistolary Forms and New Textual Authorities in Graeco-Roman Intellectual Culture" that asks how letters and letter-collections -- especially those of Paul and Apollonius of Tyana -- began to be received as literature during the long second century (96-235 CE). I have a book under contract with McGill-Queen's University Press, entitled "The Authentic Pauline corpus: Critical Scholarship and the Making of a Christian Book," which derives from my PhD dissertation at the University of Toronto. Most recently, I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto's Department of Classics, where I catalogued, digitized, and conserved a collection of Greek documentary papyri at the Royal Ontario Museum.