Laurence L. Welborn
Department of Theology
Fordham University
I. EDUCATION
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, Ph.D, 1993, M.A., 1986
New Testament and Judaism
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Post-graduate study, 1982-1984,
Early Christian Literature
Karl-Eberhard Universität, Tübingen, Germany. Post-graduate study, 1980-81
Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, M.A.R, 1979,
Religion and Literature
Harding College, Searcy, Arkansas, B.A., 1976,
Religion and Literature
II. ACADEMIC HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Scholarship, Vanderbilt University
University Fellowship, University of Chicago
Rotary Fellowship, Karl-Eberhard Universität, Tübingen
Magna Cum Laude, Yale Divinity School
Mary Cady Tew Prize, Yale Divinity School
Summa Cum Laude, Harding College
National Merit Scholarship, Harding College
III. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007- Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Fordham University
2001-2007 Professor of New Testament, United Theological Seminary
1996-2001 Associate Professor of New Testament, United Theological Seminary
1991-1996 Assistant Professor of New Testament, United Theological Seminary
1987-1991 Assistant Professor of New Testament, McCormick Theological Seminary
1984-1987 Instructor in Biblical Languages, McCormick Theological Seminary
1983-1984 Instructor in Koine Greek, Vanderbilt University
Lecturer in Religion and Literature, Yale Divinity School
Visiting Professor of New Testament, Wittenberg University
Visiting Professor of New Testament, Vanderbilt University
2009- Honorary Professor of Ancient History, Macquarie University
IV PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dean of Doctoral Studies, United Theological Seminary
V. PUBLICATIONS
“How ‘democratic’ was the Pauline Ekklēsia? An Assessment with Special Reference to the Christ
Groups of Roman Corinth,” New Testament Studies (forthcoming, 2019).
“Early Christianity in Corinth: From Paul to First Clement” in The Rise of Early Christianity in
Greece and the Southern Balkans, ed. Cilliers Breytenbach (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2019).
The First Urban Churches 4: Philippi, ed. L. L. Welborn and James R. Harrison (Atlanta: SBL
Press, 2018).
“1 Corinthians: Introduction and Notes,” The New Oxford Annotated Bible, ed. M. Coogan
P. Perkins, et al. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) 1999-2023.
The Young against the Old: Generational Conflict in First Clement (Lanham: Fortress Press
Academic, 2018).
The First Urban Churches 3: Ephesus, ed. L. L. Welborn and James R. Harrison (Atlanta: SBL
Press, 2017).
“Paul’s Place in a First-Century Revival of the Discourse of ‘Equality’,” Harvard Theological
Review 110 (2017) 541-562.
“Marxism and Capitalism in Pauline Studies” in Paul and Economics, ed. Thomas R. Blanton
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017) 361-396.
“Roman Political Ideology and the Authority of First Clement” in Into All the World: Emergent
Christianity in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts, ed. Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017) 372-392.
“Jealousy, Envy, Strife and Discord in First Clement,” Journal of Beliefs and Values 38 (2017) 173-
179.
“Paulus und der Unrechttäter des 2. Korintherbriefes: Das Ringen um Versöhnung,” Zeitschrift für
Neues Testament 38 (2016) 27-42.
“Inequality in Roman Corinth: Evidence from Diverse Sources Evaluated According to a
Neo-Ricardian Model” in The First Urban Churches, Volume 2: Roman Corinth, ed. James R. Harrison and L. L. Welborn (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2016) 47-84.
“A Coin of Aretas, with Possible Implications for the Chronology of Paul’s Life” in Aspects of the
Roman East: Papers in Honor of Fergus Millar, Studia Antiqua Australiensis 5, ed. Samuel
Lieu (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016) 279-299.
“The Polis and the Poor: Reconstructing Social Relations from Diverse Genres of Evidence” in The
First Urban Churches, Volume 1: Methodological Considerations, ed. James R. Harrison and L. L. Welborn (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2015) 189-244.
Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2015).
“Voluntary Exile as the Solution to Discord in 1 Clement,” Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 18.1
(2014) 6-21.
“The Corinthian Correspondence” in All Things to All Cultures, ed. M. Harding and A. Nobbs
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013) 205-242.
“The Culture of Crucifixion and the Resurrection of the Dispossessed” in Paul and the
Philosophers, ed. Ward Blanton and Hent de Vries (New York: Fordham University
Press, 2013) 127-142.
“Jacob Taubes: Paulinist, Messianist” in Paul in the Grip of the Continental Philosophers, ed. Peter
Frick (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013) 69-90.
“’That There May Be Equality’: The Contexts and Consequences of a Pauline Ideal,” New Testament
Studies 59.1 (2013) 73-90.
“Towards Structural Marxism as a Hermeneutic of Early Christian Literature, illustrated by Reference
to Paul’s Spectacle Metaphor in 1 Corinthians 15:30-32,” The Bible and Critical Theory 8
(2012) 39-51.
“The Palatine Graffito: A Mimic Interpretation,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Early
Christianity 73 (2012) 1-11.
“Paul and Pain: Paul’s Emotional Therapy in 2 Corinthians 1:1-2:13; 7:5-16 in the Context of
Ancient Psychagogic Literature,” New Testament Studies 57 (2011) 1-24.
An End to Enmity: Paul and the “Wrongdoer” of Second Corinthians (Berlin and New York:
Walter de Gruyter, 2011).
“1 Corinthians: Introduction and Notes,” The New Oxford Annotated Bible, ed. M. Coogan
P. Perkins, et al. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) 1999-2023.
“Inculturation of Christianity in the Greco-Roman World,” The Cambridge Dictionary of
Christianity, ed. D. Patte (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) 594-595.
“History, Concepts of,” The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, ed. D. Patte (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010) 520-521.
“Corinthians, 1 & 2 Epistles,” The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, ed. D. Patte
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) 279-280.
“By the Mouth of Two or Three Witnesses: Paul’s Invocation of a Deuteronomic Statute,”
Novum Testamentum 52 (2010) 207-220.
“Paul’s Caricature of his Chief Rival as a Pompous Parasite in 2 Corinthians 11:20,” Journal
For the Study of the New Testament 32 (2009) 39-56.
“Extraction from the Mortal Site: Badiou on the Resurrection in Paul,” New Testament Studies
55 (2009) 295-314.
Early Patristic Readings of Romans, ed. Kathy Gaca and L. L. Welborn (London: T & T
Clark, 2006).
Paul, the Fool of Christ: A Study of 1 Corinthians 1-4 in the Comic-Philosophic Tradition
(London: T. & T. Clark International, 2005).
“Discord in Corinth” in Christianity at Corinth: The Quest for the Pauline Church, ed. E. Adams and
D. G. Horrell (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004) 139-144.
“Euro-American Biblical Interpretation” in Methods of Biblical Interpretation, ed. John H. Hayes
(Nashville: Abingdon, 2004) 317-21.
Encounters with Hellenism: Studies in First Clement, ed. C. Breytenbach and L. L. Welborn (Leiden:
Brill, 2003).
“Vom Unterrichten der Bibel im ‘Ausnahmezustand’. Reflexionen ueber die hermeneutische
Aufgabe eines neutestamentlichen Historikers nach dem 11. September 2001,” Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 10.5 (2002) 1-14.
“Paul’s Appropriation of the Role of the Fool in 1 Corinthians 1-4,” Biblical Interpretation 10.4 (2002) 420-435.
“Take up the Epistle of the Blessed Paul the Apostle: The Contrasting Fates of Paul’s Letters to Corinth in the Patristic Period,” Reading Communities Reading Scripture: Festschrift for
Daniel Patte, ed. N. Duran (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002) 345-357
“The Appeal to the Emotions in Paul’s Letter of Reconciliation, 2 Cor. 1:1-2:13; 7:5-16,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 82 (2001) 31-60.
“The Runaway Paul: A Character in the Fool’s Speech,” Harvard Theological Review 92:2 (1999) 115-63.
“Primum tirocinium Pauli, (2 Cor. 11, 32-33),” Biblische Zeitschrift 43/1 (1999) 49-71.
Politics and Rhetoric in the Corinthian Epistles (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997).
“Like Broken Pieces of a Ring: 2 Cor. 1:1-2:13; 7:5-16 and Ancient Theories of Literary
Unity,” New Testament Studies 42 (1996) 559-83.
“Paul's Flight from Damascus: Sources and Evidence for an Historical Evaluation” in
Historische Wahrheit, Festschrift for Gerd Luedemann, ed. A. Oezen (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1996) 41-60.
“The Dangerous Double Affirmation: Character and Truth in 2 Cor. 1:17-23,” Zeitschrift
für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 86 (1995) 34-52.
“The Identification of 2 Corinthians 10-13 with the Letter of Tears,” Novum
Testamentum 37/2 (1995) 138-53.
“First Clement” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary (Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1993)
1.1055-1060.
“The Kingdom of God and Time,” Journal of Theology 96 (1992) 77-85.
“Georgi's Gegner: Some Reflections on the Occasion of its Translation,” Journal of
Religion 67.3 (1988) 566-574.
“A Conciliatory Principle in I Corinthians 4:6,” Novum Testamentum 35 (1987) 1-22.
“On the Discord in Corinth: I Corinthians 1-4 and Ancient Politics,” Journal of Biblical
Literature 106.1 (1987) 85-111.
“The Date of First Clement,” Biblical Research 29 (1985) 34-54.
“Gnosticism” in The Encyclopedia Britannica Micropedia (1985) 214-216.
V. WORKS IN PROGRESS
“That There May Be Equality”: Paul on the Economics of the Christ Groups. Paul in Critical
Contexts (Lanham: Fortress Academic/Lexington Books, forthcoming).
First Clement: A Commentary. Hermeneia (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, forthcoming).
VI. SELECTED CRITICAL REVIEWS
Review of John M. G. Barclay, Paul and the Gift (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015) in
Biblical Interpretation (forthcoming).
Review of Bruce Longenecker, Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty and the Greco-Roman
World (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010) in Review of Biblical Literature 7 (2012) 1-7.
Review of Jeremy F. Hultin, The Ethics of Obscene Speech in Early Christianity and its
Environment (Leiden: Brill, 2008) in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 74 (2012) 375-77.
Review of Richard A. Horsley, Wisdom and Spiritual Transcendence at Corinth: Studies
in First Corinthians (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2008) in Review of Biblical Literature
(2010).
Review of Ivar Vegge, 2 Corinthians – A Letter about Reconciliation (Tübingen: Mohr
Siebeck, 2008) in Review of Biblical Literature (2009)
Review of Andrew D. Clarke, Secular and Christian Leadership in Corinth: A Socio-
Historical and Exegetical Study of 1 Corinthians 1-6 (Leiden: Paternoster, 2006)
in Catholic Biblical Quarterly (2008).
Review of Clayton N. Jefford, The Apostolic Fathers: An Essential Guide (Nashville:
Abingdon, 2005) in the Review of Biblical Literature (2007).
Review of Robert Dutch, The Educated Elite in 1 Corinthians (London: T. & T. Clark
International, 2005) in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 68.3 (2006) 537-39.
Review of David deSilva, The Credentials of an Apostle in Journal of Biblical Literature
118.3 (1999) 561-62.
Review of Harold Dollar, A Biblical-Missiological Exploration of the Cross-Cultural
Dimensions in Luke-Acts in Missiology (1996) 407-408.
Review of Wendell Willis, Idol Meat in Corinth in Critical Reviews of Books in Religion
(1991) 243-246.
Review of Victor Furnish, II Corinthians, AB 32B in Journal of Biblical Literature 106.4 (1987)
345-48.
Review of E. P. Sanders, Paul, the Law and the Jewish People in Journal of Religion 65.1
(1986) 101-102.
VII. TRANSLATIONS
H. D. Betz, 2 Corinthians 8 and 9: Two Administrative Letters of the Apostle Paul,
Hermeneia (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985).
H. D. Betz, Essays on the Sermon on the Mount (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985).
K. Rudolph, “Wellhausen as Arabist,” Semeia 25: Julius Wellhausen, ed. D. Knight
(1982) 111-155.
W. Eichrodt, “Faith in Providence and Theodicy in the Old Testament” in Theodicy in
the Old Testament, ed. J. Crenshaw (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983) 17-41.
VIII. EDITORSHIPS
The SBL History of Biblical Studies, edited by Leo Perdue and L. L. Welborn. Published
by the Society of Biblical Literature
Synkrisis: Invitations to Early Christianity in Greco-Roman Culture, edited by L. L. Welborn.
Published by Yale University Press
Paul in Critical Contexts, edited by L. L. Welborn and Laura Nasrallah. Published by Fortress
Academic/Lexington Books.
IX. MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATIONS
Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas
Society of Biblical Literature
Co-chair of the “Seminar on Romans through History and Cultures,” 1997-2000, 2003-2005.
Co-chair of “Polis and Ekklesia,” 2011-2017
Catholic Biblical Association of America
Columbia University New Testament Seminar
Co-chair, 2011-2019
X. LANGUAGES
Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Coptic, German, French, Dutch
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