Nathaniel DesRosiers is Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Stonehill College, where he teaches courses in New Testament, and Early Christianity. His area of research includes the history of ancient Mediterranean religions and the influences of Hellenistic philosophy and contemporary socio-religious praxes on the formation of Pauline literature and the Synoptic Gospels. He is co-editor of Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians and the Greco-Roman World (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), and Religious Competition in Late Antiquity (SBL Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series, 2016). He is presently working on two book projects Swear or Swear Not: Divergent Views on Oath-Taking which discusses the evolution of the oath in the ancient Mediterranean and Cities of the Gods, which explores socio-religious competition in the Greek cities of Asia Minor during the Roman Empire.
