 | Dale B. Martin |
Dale B. Martin, the new designated Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies, is a specialist on the New Testament and the origins of Christianity whose work encompasses study of the social and cultural history of the Greco-Roman world.
His books include "Slavery as Salvation: The Metaphor of Slavery in Pauline Christianity," "The Corinthian Body" and "Inventing Superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians." He has written articles on topics related to the ancient family, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and ideology of modern biblical scholarship, under such titles as "Paul Without Passion: On Paul's Rejection of Desire in Sex and Marriage," "Contradictions of Masculinity: Ascetic Inseminators and Menstruating Men in Greco-Roman Culture" and "Heterosexism and the Interpretation of Romans 1:18-32."
His current work focuses on gender, sexuality and biblical interpretation, including an analysis of current interpretation theory and its relationship to current uses of the Bible.
Martin joined the Yale faculty in 1999 after teaching for 11 years at Duke University, where he was awarded the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1990. He previously was an instructor at Rhodes College. He holds a B.S. in music education from Abilene Christian University, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and an M.A. (1986), M.Phil. (1986) and Ph.D. (1988) from Yale.
The Yale scholar has chaired the Department of Religious Studies since 2002. Since 2003, he has been a fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center. He formerly served on the University's Humanities Advisory Committee.
Martin has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, the Lilly Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. Most recently, he was awarded a 2005-2006 Study Leave Fellowship for work at the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
A member of the Society of Biblical Literature, Martin has served on numerous committees and is a former president of the Southeastern Regional Society of Biblical Literature. He is also a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament and the Journal of Biblical Literature.
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