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Sean Freyne, Visiting Professor of Early Christian History and Literature,
is director of the Programme for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at
Trinity College, Dublin, where he previously held the Chair of Theology. His
early training in biblical studies was done in Rome and Jerusalem
(Pontifical Biblical Institute) and Tübingen (Institut für Antikes
Judentum und Hellenistische Religionsgeschichte), where he was an Alexander von
Humboldt Fellow. He has held teaching positions in New Testament in Ireland,
the United States, and Australia, and is a frequent contributor to radio and
television discussions dealing with historical and theological aspects of
Christianity. He is also a trustee of the Chester Beatty Library and Gallery
of Oriental Art, Dublin. He has served on the editorial boards of New
Testament Studies and Concilium. An International Journal of Theology and he
is president of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas for the current year.
He is the author of several books and many articles dealing with various
aspects of early Christianity and its literature, mainly the Gospels. His
special research interest has to do with Galilee in Hellenistic and Roman
times, with a focus on the use of archaeology in constructing ancient
history. His most recent study, Jesus a Jewish Galilean (2004), gathers
together many of his ideas on both Jesus and Galilee developed over the
years.
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