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Matthew Novenson is the Helen H. P. Manson Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is also an honorary fellow in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, where previously he held the Chair of Biblical Criticism and Biblical Antiquities. His monographs include Christ among the Messiahs (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Grammar of Messianism (Oxford University Press, 2017), Paul, Then and Now (Eerdmans, 2022), and Paul and Judaism at the End of History (Cambridge University Press, 2024). His edited volumes include Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Brill, 2020) and The Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies (Oxford University Press, 2022). He is founder and co-editor of the book series Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity (Edinburgh University Press) and associate editor of the journal New Testament Studies.
Religion in antiquity, ancient Judaism, ancient Christianity, biblical studies, New Testament, the apostle Paul, messianism, Christology, hermeneutics, history and theology, theory and method
“The Universal Polytheism and the Case of the Apostle Paul,” in Paul within Paganism (ed. Alexi Chantziantoniou, Paula Fredriksen, and Stephen Young; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2025), 59–74.
Paul and Judaism at the End of History (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
“Paul’s Jesus as the Christ,” in New Cambridge Companion to Jesus (ed. Markus Bockmuehl; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 58–71.
“The New Testament: The First to the Early Second Century,” in Cambridge Documentary History of Jewish-Christian Relations (ed. Edward Kessler and Neil Wenborn; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 17–64.
“Judaism,” in Behind the Scenes of the New Testament (ed. Elizabeth Shively et al.; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2024), 5–11.
“Circumcision and Circumcisability,” Journal of the Jesus Movement in Its Jewish Setting 10 (2023): 133–142.
“Law in the New Testament,” in St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology (2023).
“Gentile Sinners: A Brief History of an Ancient Stereotype,” in Negotiating Identities (ed. Karin Hedner Zetterholm, Anders Runesson, Cecilia Wassen, and Magnus Zetterholm; Lanham, MD: Lexington/Fortress, 2022), 159–180.
“Ioudaios, Pharisee, Zealot,” in T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul (ed. Ryan S. Schellenberg and Heidi Wendt; London: T&T Clark, 2022), 167–182.
“Anti-Judaism and Philo-Judaism in Pauline Studies, Then and Now,” in Protestant Bible Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philosemitism, and Anti-Judaism (ed. Arjen F. Bakker et al.; Leiden: Brill, 2022), 106–124.
Paul, Then and Now (Eerdmans, 2022).
NT2102 Orientation to New Testament and Exegesis
TI2014 Jews and Judaism in the New Testament
NT3428 Greek Exegesis of Paul’s Letter to the Philippians
NT9011 Paul and Judaism
NT9031 Ancient Christian Texts
Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, 2024–
Research Fellow, Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge, 2021–2022
Thomas Reid Medal for Outstanding Contributions in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2018
Visiting Professor, Department of Religion, Dartmouth College, 2014, 2016
co-editor, Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity (Edinburgh University Press)
co-editor, Cambridge Elements in Pauline Studies (Cambridge University Press)
associate editor, New Testament Studies (Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas)
July 28, 2025
New Books Network
July 17, 2025
Homebrewed Christianity
September 18, 2024
OnScript
University of Edinburgh
March 13, 2024
Ancient Jew Review
November 1, 2022
Katz Center, University of Pennsylvania
November 19, 2019
Marginalia Review of Books
September 10, 2018
