Sean Adams

Biography

Sean A. Adams is a lecturer in New Testament and Ancient Culture. Sean began his academic career as a British Academy Postdoctoral fellow and is currently a British Academy Rising Star for Engagement Award holder. Additionally, as of 2015, Sean is a member of the British Academy’s Policy Development Panel. In his research he seeks to understand the New Testament and contemporary Jewish literature in its wider literary and historical contexts. He is currently working on a monograph that looks at the different ways Jewish authors engaged with Greek literature and adopted Greek literary forms. This work will lay the foundation for his next project, which will investigate the way Jewish communities engaged with Greek literary education and will specific focus on Philo of Alexandria. Sean has also worked with ancient manuscripts and has published a few papers on the way that ancient scribes used paragraphs to divide the text. Sean lectures on a range of New Testament topics, including the Historical Jesus, Biblical theology, individual books studies (e.g., Acts, Galatians), and introductions to the Bible. Sean has also supervised undergraduate, masters, and doctoral dissertations and would be happy to talk to students interested in studying all aspects of the New Testament, biblical theology, the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament, ancient manuscripts, Hellenistic literature, and Greek education.

Research Interest

Luke-Acts Graeco-Roman Biography Ancient Genre Theory Jewish Hellenistic Authors (Philo, Josephus) Ancient Citation Practice Septuagint Ancient Manuscripts and Scibal Practices