Dr T.J. Lang
Senior Lecturer in New Testament
Biography
T.J. Lang joined the University of St Andrews in 2016 and is now Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies. He is also currently co-director of the Institute for Bible, Theology, & Hermeneutics. Prior to St Andrews T.J. was Lecturer at Durham University (2014-2016). His PhD is in New Testament Studies from Duke University (2014), with minor areas in Early Christianity and Greco-Roman Systems of Thought. T.J. was formerly a Fulbright scholar at the Universität Heidelberg (2009-2010), a Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellow (2011-14), and a DAAD Research Grant awardee (2009-2010). His first monograph, Mystery and the Making of a Christian Historical Consciousness: From Paul to the Second Century (de Gruyter, 2015), was awarded the 2017 Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise. T.J. currently serves as the Divinity School's Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research). His publications appear in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Biblical Literature, New Testament Studies, Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der Älteren Kirche, Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, Journal of Theological Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Biblical Interpretation, and the Journal of Theological Interpretation.
Teaching
DI1006 Jesus and the Gospels
DI2003 Paul and the Epistles
DI4604/5 Johannine Literature and Theology (English and Greek)
DI5107 Greek Readings
DI5429 Biblical Themes
DI5501 The Origins of Christian Theology
T.J. also co-lectures with Dr Madhavi Nevader on From Adam to Apocalypse (DI1202) and Kingship and Messianism (DI4732).
Research areas
Dr Lang's scholarship wanders across texts and centuries, but the core of his research is twofold: first, the New Testament; second, the history of its formation and interpretation. Strictly speaking, the anthology named ?New Testament? is not a first-century artefact. The canon coalesces alongside the centuries-long reception and interpretation of its contents. Much of Dr Lang's work, therefore, also moves alongside the canonical formation of the New Testament, alongside its earliest interpretation, but utlimately back to the text itself. The accent is not on reception for its own sake but on how the New Testament's reception returns to the text and contributes to its ongoing interpretation. ?Reception history? (or Wirkungsgeschichte) is not unfitting as a description of his primary research interest, but he aspires to a version of this that is more powerful and historically expansive than what is often so labelled.
PhD supervision
- Benjamin Castaneda
- Jackson Atkins
- Hannah Craven
- Paulus De Jong
- Tyler Hoagland
- Kimberley Kroll
Selected publications
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Mystery and the making of a Christian historical consciousness: from Paul to the second century
Lang, T. J., 16 Oct 2015, Berlin: de Gruyter. 293 p. (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft; vol. 219)Research output: Book/Report ? Book
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Cosmology and Eschatology in Paul
Lang, T. J., Jul 2020, The Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies. Novenson, M. & Matlock, B. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter
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The order of Christian theology: literal and ecclesial senses of the New Testament
Lang, T. J., 14 Jun 2020, In : Journal of Theological Interpretation. 14, 1, p. 120-139 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Trouble with insiders: the social profile of the ??????? in Paul's Corinthian correspondence
Lang, T. J., 18 Dec 2018, In : Journal of Biblical Literature. 137, 4, p. 981-1001Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Did Tertullian read Marcion in Latin? Grammatical evidence from the Greek of Ephesians 3:9 in Marcion?s Apostolikon as presented in the Latin of Tertullian?s Adversus Marcionem
Lang, T. J., Jun 2017, In : Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum. 21, 1, p. 63-72Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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The origins of Pauline theology: paratexts and Priscillian of Avila?s Canons on the letters of the Apostle Paul
Lang, T. J. & Crawford, M. R., Jan 2017, In : New Testament Studies. 63, 1, p. 125-145Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Disbursing the account of God: fiscal terminology and the economy of God in Colossians 1,24-25
Lang, T. J., Feb 2016, In : Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und Kunde der älteren Kirche. 107, 1, p. 116?136Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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We speak in a mystery: neglected Greek evidence for the syntax and sense of 1 Corinthians 2:7
Lang, T. J., Jan 2016, In : Catholic Biblical Quarterly. 78, 1, p. 68-89Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Intellect ordered: an allusion to Plato in Dialogue with Trypho and its significance for Justin?s Christian epistemology
Lang, T. J., 2016, In : Journal of Theological Studies. 67, 1, p. 77-96Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Spectres of the ?Real? Paul and the Prospect of Pauline Scholarship
Lang, T. J., 2015, In : Marginalia Review of Books.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article