Elements in Early Christian Literature

Early Christian Literature systematically engages early Christian literature, literary activity, and the technologies of literary production to the end of the sixth century CE. This series emphasizes the diversity of genuine early Christian experience and the rich literary imagination of a wide variety of early Christian communities. It empowers authors to move beyond approaches that explore this literature primarily as a witness to early biblical interpretation or as a reservoir for information on theological division. As a supplement to these approaches, we invite authors to explore early Christian writings as reflections of the broad diversity of Christian literary production, experience, theology, and perspectives. This approach enables authors to explore the multifaceted critical issues that arise as these texts are read, interpreted, and contextualized. The series explores literary forms, the works of certain authors, the technologies of literary production, and early linguistic contexts. 

Garrick V. Allen (PhD St Andrews, 2015) is Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of multiple articles and books on the New Testament, early Jewish and Christian literature, and ancient and medieval manuscript traditions, including The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Manuscripts of the Book of Revelation: New Philology, Paratexts, Reception (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is the winner of the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise and the Paul J. Achetemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship.  

garrick.allen@glasgow.ac.uk