David Lincicum
Associate Professor
Director of the Master of Theological Studies Program
Fellow, Medieval Institute
Primary Area: Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity
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Biography
Doing my best to honor a long tradition, I work at the intersection of early Jewish, early Christian and New Testament studies.
My research has especially focused on investigating early Christian and Jewish biblical interpretation, Pauline literature, and the history of interpretation. I hope that my monograph on Paul and the Early Jewish Encounter with Deuteronomy makes some contribution not only to an understanding of Paul, but also to the apprehension of Second Temple Judaism and the relation between the Old and New Testaments. I'm currently at work on an edition, translation, introduction and commentary for the curious text known as the Epistle of Barnabas. All of this research reflects my broad interest in New Testament and Early Christian studies, but also my attempt to grapple seriously, in cross-disciplinary investigations, with Second Temple Judaism, the formation of self-consciously Christian appropriations of the Old Testament, and the history of New Testament study, including the theological reception of the New Testament as Scripture.
Research Interests
The Epistle of Barnabas, the History of Biblical Interpretation, Material Philology, Early Christian Reception of Scripture
Selected Publications
The Reception of Philo of Alexandria. Edited with Courtney Friesen and David T. Runia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025.
Divine and Human Love in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. Edited with Kylie Crabbe. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024.
Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings: The Use of the Old Testament in the New. Edited with Matthias Henze. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023.
Ferdinand Christian Baur: A Reader. Edited with Johannes Zachhuber. London: T&T Clark/Continuum, 2022.
Paul and the Early Jewish Encounter with Deuteronomy. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament II/284. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. Reprinted: Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013.
Education
- D.Phil. University of Oxford