Justin David Strong
Associate Professor
- New Testament
- Justin.D.Strong@mf.no
- Office: 337
- Phone number: 22590500
Professional competence areas:
- Ancient Education
- Ancient Judaism
- Ancient Popular Literature
- Animal Studies
- Early Christianity
- New Testament
- Posthumanities
- The Ancient Fable Tradition
I am an associate professor of New Testament at MF. I research early Christianity and Judaism amid the bustling marketplace of ideas, cultures, and religions of the ancient Mediterranean. I have worked extensively in ancient folk literature, especially fables and biographies as they relate to the "parables" of Jesus and gospels, respectively. This research is exemplified by my book, The Fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke: A New Foundation for the Study of Parables (2021). It was awarded the Manfred Lautenschläger Prize (2022), has been the basis of a major three-year research project in Germany (2022-2025), and a panel review at the British New Testament Society (2024).
I am particularly interested in transdisciplinary scholarship, whether bridging Classics and Biblical Studies or utilizing frameworks such as digital humanities, counterfactual history, posthumanism, and Animal Studies. I take up some of these topics in my forthcoming book, Animals in the New Testament: Perspectives from Animal Studies and Ancient Contexts (2025).
Prospective PhD students interested in the New Testament and Ancient Christianity are encouraged to contact me.
Latest academic publications
- Strong, J. D. (2023). Aesop, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Encyclopedia, ISSN: 1747-678X
- Strong, J. D. (2023). The Rape of Men in the Hebrew Bible, the Syrian Civil War, and the 'Me Too' Movement, Doing Biblical Masculinity Studies as Feminist Biblical Studies? Critical Interrogations,, s. 66 - 84. Sheffield Phoenix Press, ISBN: 978-1-914490-35-4
- Strong, J. D. (2023). The Rabbinic Mashal and the Ancient Fable: Prospects for a Changing Perspective, The Power of Parables: Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish and Christian Parables,, s. 131 - 154. Brill Academic Publishers, ISBN: 978-90-04-68004-3
Education and practice
2023 - d.d.
Research Associate, The New Testament and Related Literature, University of Pretoria
2020 - 2025
Principal Investigator of "The Ancient Fable Tradition and Early Christian Literature,” German Research Foundation (DFG), University of Mainz
2019 - 2020
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Durham
2014 - 2019
Ph.D., Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity, University of Notre Dame
2013 - 2014
Fulbright Research Fellow, Humboldt University of Berlin
2010 - 2012
M.T.S., New Testament and Early Christianity, Harvard University
2005 - 2008
B.A., Biblical Studies, Azusa Pacific University