Member of the Perkins faculty since 2007
swan@smu.edu
214.768.3553

Education
Th.D., Harvard University Divinity School, 1992; M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 1982; A.B., Brandeis University, 1975

Teaching Specialties
Paul, Romans, Postcolonial Studies, Second Temple Judaism

Research Interests
Paul and Empire, Postcolonial studies of the New Testament, Philo and Hellenistic Judaism, Neo-Confucianism

Selected Publications
Power in Weakness: Conflict and Rhetorics in Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians (2000); editor, The Bible in Modern China: The Literary and Intellectual Impact (1999); “Betwixt and Between: Towards a Hermeneutics of Hyphenation” (2006); “Jews and Gentiles in Origen’s Commentarii in Epistulam Pauli ad Romanos” (2005); “Abraham and the Promise of Spirit: Points of Convergence between Philo and Paul” (2004); “Christian Contributions to the Globalization of Confucianism (Beyond Maoism)” (2002); “Collection for the Saints as Anti-Colonial Act: Implications of Paul’s Ethnic Reconstruction” (2000)

Professional Distinctions
Ordained priest in the Episcopal Church; member of editorial board, Journal of Biblical Literature; contributor, New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible