People
Gregory E. Sterling
Professor of Theology
(B.A., Houston Baptist University, 1978; M.A., Pepperdine University, 1980; M.A., University of California at Davis, 1982; Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, 1990)
Profile
Sterling's areas of interest are the ways in which Second Temple Jews and early Christians interacted with one another and with the Greco-Roman world. He has concentrated on three major corpora: the writings of Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, and Luke-Acts. His work on Historiography and Self-Definition (1992) addressed how Josephus and Luke-Acts responded to the larger world. He has a forthcoming anthology of prayers from the Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian worlds that he co-authored.
He is currently at work on a book entitled The Jewish Plato that explores the importance of Philo of Alexandria as a witness to Jewish traditions that helped to shape early Christian thought. Sterling has written more than twenty-five articles in peer-reviewed journals or solicited books. He has edited or co-edited Hellenism in the Land of Israel and The Ancestral Philosophy. He is the co-editor of The Studia Philonica Annual, the general editor of The Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series, and the general editor of the Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series. He currently serves as the Executive Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Letters.
Contact
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Notre Dame, IN 46556
574 631 8052
Gregory.E.Sterling.1@nd.edu