David R. Edwards
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
Contact
Phone: 941-487-4605
Email: [email protected]
Location
Office: ACE 325
Mail: ACE 116
Department
Office or Division: Humanities Division
Area of Concentration: Religion
Education
Ph.D., Florida State University (2021)
M.Div., Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (2015)
B.A., University of South Carolina (2009)
Bio
Dr. Edwards teaches courses in Religion and Judaic/Jewish Studies. He specializes broadly in ancient Mediterranean religions, history, literature, languages, and culture with a focus on Early Judaism. He is especially interested in the ways that early Jewish writers engaged their scriptures and how they appropriated Greek and Roman ideas and culture.
Recent Publications
- Media, Materiality, and Methods in the Composition of Josephus’ Works. Bloomsbury (under contract).
- An Orientation to Josephus for Biblical Studies. Oxford University Press (under contract).
- In the Court of the Gentiles: Narrative, Exemplarity, and Scriptural Adaptation in the Court-Tales of Flavius Josephus. Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplements 209. Brill, 2023.
- “Diagnosing Decline: Greco-Roman Rhetoric about the Middle and Late Roman Republic as Inspiration for Josephus’ Interpretation of the Book of Judges.” Journal for the Study of Judaism 55, no. 3 (2024): 386–414.
- “The Dilemma of King David: Reading Josephus’ Antiquities against the Grain through the Lens of Greco-Roman Tyrant Typologies.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 33, no. 4 (2024): 261–87.