George P. Carras

Senior Research Professor (classical studies, religion)

Visiting Research Fellow, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, 2012-2013 (in-residence January - July 2013)

Research Associate and Associate Member, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, summers 2008 and 2011 and 2013 (January-June) (in-residence)

Visiting Fellow, CREOR (Centre for Research on Religion), Faculty of Religious Studies, March - April, 2012 (in-residence), previously summer 2007; Senior Member of CREOR since 2007, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Education

D.Phil. - Oxford - Oriental / Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, Religion
MA - Manchester - New Testament, Biblical/Literary Criticism
BA (Honors) - UC Berkeley - Classics, Ancient History, Religion, Jewish Studies
MA (Hon.) - Oxford - Biblical Studies, Theology

Research

Classical Studies:
Flavius Josephus, Flavian Rome, Moral World of Antiquity, Plutarch, his World and the "Morales", Josephus and Paul

Religion:
The Jewish Paul; Lukan Studies, Intertextuality

Teaching

Classical Studies:
Moral World of Antiquity (Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian), Epictetus - Life and Writings and other Stoics, The Religions of Antiquity, World of Judaism and Hellenism, Philo of Alexandria, Flavius Josephus

Religion:
Inside Matthew's World, Luke - Acts: Legacies of Israel, Paul and the World of the Judaism,
The Moral Vision of the New Testament, Voices of Hellenistic Jewry - Philo, Josephus, Paul

Selected Publications (Classical Studies)

Books:

• Two Diaspora Jews: Josephus and Paul - A Historical, Social and Theological Comparison of Hellenistic Jewry, (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums), Leiden: Brill, (in progress)
• Paul, Josephus and Judaism: The Shared Judaism of Paul and Josephus (1990 mss, Oxford, digitized)

Articles:

• "Dependence, Paraphrase or Common Tradition in Philo's Hypothetica and Josephus' Contra Apionem," Studia Philonica Annual 5 (1993), 24-47
• "Philo's Hypothetica - Josephus' Contra Apionem and the Question of Sources" in D. Lull (ed.), 1990 Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990, 431-450

Work in Progress:

• "Pre-Rabbinic Echoes in Josephus - Diaspora Jewish Summary of the Law - Against Apion (AgAp) 2.190-219"
• "Josephus' Intellectual Flavian Milieu - Pliny, Quintilian, Tacitus, Martial, Dio Chrysostom, Epictetus, and Plutarch? - Various Examples Exposed"
• "Reading Josephus in a Roman Context - Against Apion 2.190-219 and Antiquities 3-4 Once More"
• Book Review of Jan Bremmer and Marco Formisano,  Perpetua's Passions, Oxford University Press, 2012

Selected Publications (Religion)

Book:

• Putting Paul in his Place: Inheritor, Internal Critic and Transformer of Diaspora Judaism, Oxford University Press: New York, (in preparation)

Articles:

• "Observant Jews in the Story of Luke and Acts: Paul, Jesus and Other Jews" in J. Verheyden (ed.), The Unity of Luke-Acts, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1999, 693-708
• "Luke and the OT: Intertextuality between Numbers 15.22-31 & Luke 23.34" in C.M. Tuckett (ed.), The Scriptures in the Gospels, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1997, 605-616
• "Romans 2.1-29: A Dialogue on Jewish Ideals," Biblica 73 (1992), 183-207
• "Jewish Ethics and Gentile Converts: Some Remarks on 1 Thess. 4.3-8" in R.F. Collins (ed.), The Thessalonian Correspondence, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1990, 306-315