James R. Harrison (1)

James R. Harrison is Professor and Director of Research at Sydney College of Divinity, Australia, and Honorary Associate of Macquarie University Ancient History Department. He is author of Paul and the Imperial Authorities at Thessalonica and Rome (Mohr Siebeck, 2011), and co-editor of volume 10 of show more New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity (Eerdmans, 2012). His new book, Paul and the Ancient Celebrity Circuit: The Cross and Character Formation, is another Mohr Siebeck publication forthcoming. Along with Larry Welborn, he is also co-editor of the SBL series on urban Christianity, The First Urban Churches, with volumes published on the methodology of studying ancient cities (2015), Roman Corinth (2016), and Ephesus (2017). Harrison also edits the renamed pentad, New Documents Illustrating the History of Early Christianity Vols 11-15, investigating the inscriptions of the major New Testament cities. show less