James d tabor biography of barack

PERSONAL:

Born 1946; children: five. Education: Pepperdine University, B.A., M.A.; University of Chicago, Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Charlotte, NC. Office— University of North Carolina, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223-0001.

[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, faculty member, 1979-85; College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, faculty member, 1985-89; University of North Carolina, Charlotte, faculty member and chair of the department of religious studies, 1989—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Things Unutterable was named one of the ten best scholarly studies on Paul of the 1980s by the Journal of Religion.

WRITINGS:

Things Unutterable: Paul's Ascent to Paradise in Its Greco-Roman, Judaic, and Early Christian Contexts, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1986.

(With Arthur J.

Droge) A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity, HarperSanFrancisco (San Francisco,