Classics grad student Matthew Ferguson speaking and publishing in 2016
Department: Classics
Post Date: January 13, 2016News Details
Classics graduate student Matthew Ferguson will present papers at two upcoming conferences in 2016:
"The Certamen of Homer and Hesiod and the Gospels of the New Testament: A Comparison of Biographical Genre"
Pacific Coast Region Society of Biblical Literature
March 13-14, 2016
Claremont Graduate University
Conference website: https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/rm_pacific.aspx
Link to paper.
"Reevaluating the Pagan as the Cultural "Other" in Both Ancient and Modern Religious Studies"
American Academy of Religion Western Region
April 1-3, 2016
University of Arizona
Conference website: http://www.aarwr.com/annual-meetings.html
The conference version of this paper is not yet available, but there is an earlier version that it is based on.
Matthew has also had two papers accepted for publication:
"Ancient Historical Writing Compared to the Gospels of the New Testament"
AND
"Why Scholars Doubt the Traditional Authors of the Gospels"
Both papers are being published in the "modern library" of the Secular Web:
http://infidels.org/library/modern/