Professor James McLaren

Recent Publications

“Searching for Rome in Galilee: Reassessing Rome-Galilee relations (63 B.C.E. to 70 C.E.).” In Rome and Religion: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on the Imperial Cult, eds. Jeffrey Brodd and Jonathan L. Reed, 111-36. Writing from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series 5. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.

 “Going to war against Rome: the motivation of the Jewish rebels.” In The Jewish Revolt against Rome: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,ed. Mladen Popović, 129-53. Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplement Series 154. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

“The Jewish War as a Response to Flavian Propaganda.” In Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts as Crisis Management Literature: Thematic Studies from the Centre for Early Christian Studies, eds. David C. Sim and Pauline Allen, 9-28. London: T&T Clark [Continuum], 2012.

“The Temple and the Gentiles.” In Attitudes to Gentiles in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, eds. David C. Sim and James S. McLaren, 92-108. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

“The Jews in Rome during the Flavian Period.” Antichthon 47 (2013): 156-72

Selected Publications

Turbulent Times? Josephus and Scholarship on Judaea in the First Century CE. JSPT Supplement Series 29; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

“Ananus, James and Earliest Christianity. Josephus’ Account of the Death of James,” JTS 52.1 (2001): 1-25.

"The Coinage of the First Year as a Point of Reference for the Jewish revolt (66-70 CE)." SCI 22 (2003): 135-52.

"Jews and the Imperial Cult: From Augustus to Domitian." JSNT 27.3 (2005): 257-78.

"Corruption among the high-priesthood: a matter of perspective." In A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Seán Freyne, eds. Z. Rodgers M. Daly-Denton, A. Fitzpatrick McKinley, 141-57.  Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Biblical Studies, Church History

Biblical Studies, Christian History.

• Society for the Study of the New Testament
• Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
• Society of Biblical Literature
• Catholic Biblical Association
• Early Judaism and Its Literature Book Series Editorial Board, Society of Biblical Literature