Профессор Гарвардской богословской школы. Специалист в области изучения Священного Писания Нового Завета.

В 1991 г. получила бакалаврскую степень в Принстонском университете. В 1995 г. - магистерскую степень в Гарвардской богословской школе. Там же в 2002 г. защитила докторскую (PhD) диссертацию.

Преподает в Гарварде с 1995 г. С 2011 г. - профессор.

Академические интересы: Священное Писание Нового Завета, раннехристианская письменность.

Книги

Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Paperback issue: 2011.
“An Ecstasy of Folly”: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity. Harvard Theological Studies no. 52. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

В соавторстве

From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē: Studies in Religion and Archaeology. Laura Nasrallah, Charalambos Bakirtzis, and Steven J. Friesen, eds. Harvard Theological Studies 56; Cambridge, MA: distributed through Harvard University Press, 2010.
Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies. Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, eds. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2009. Paperback issue: 2010.

Статьи и главы

and Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre. “Beyond the Heroic Paul: Toward a Feminist and Decolonizing Approach to the Letters of Paul.” In The Colonized Apostle: Paul through Postcolonial Eyes. Edited by Christopher Stanley. Pp. 161-174. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011.
“Introduction” and “Early Christian Interpretation in Image and Word: Canon, Sacred Text, and the Mosaics of Moni Latomou.” In From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē: Studies in Religion and Archaeology. Laura Nasrallah, Charalambos Bakirtzis, and Steven J. Friesen, eds. Harvard Theological Studies 56; Cambridge, MA: distributed through Harvard University Press, 2010.
“The Knidian Aphrodite in the Roman Empire and Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave: On Ethnicity, Gender, and Desire.” In Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies. Edited by Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Pp. 51-78. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2009.
“The Earthen Human, the Breathing Statue: The Sculptor God, Greco-Roman Statuary, and Clement of Alexandria.” In Beyond Eden: The Biblical Story of Paradise [Genesis 2-3] and Its Reception History, edited by Konrad Schmid and Christoph Riedweg. Pp. 110-40. Forschungen zum Alten Testament II. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008.
“The Acts of the Apostles, Greek Cities, and Hadrian’s Panhellenion.” Journal of Biblical Literature 127.3 (2008) 533-65.
“The Rhetoric of Conversion and the Construction of Experience: The Case of Justin Martyr.” In Studia Patristica: Papers presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003, edited by F. Young, M. Edwards, and P. Parvis. Pp. 467-74. Leuven and Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2006.
“Prophecy, the Periodization of History, and Early Christian Identity: A Case from the So-Called Montanist Controversy.” In Religious Identity in Late Antiquity, edited by Elizabeth Digeser and Robert Frakes. Pp. 13-35. Toronto: Edgar Kent, Inc., 2006.
“Empire and Apocalypse in Thessaloniki: Interpreting the Early Christian Rotunda.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 13.4 (2005) 465–508.
“Mapping the World: Justin, Tatian, Lucian, and the Second Sophistic.” Harvard Theological Review 98.3 (2005) 283-314.
“‘Now I Know in Part’: Historiography and Epistemology in Early Christian Debates about Prophecy.” In Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Eds. Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Cynthia Kittredge, and Shelly Matthews. Pp. 244-65. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 2003.
“‘She became what the words signified’: The Greek Acts of Andrew’s Construction of the Reader-Disciple.” In The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, edited by François Bovon et al. Pp. 233-58. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press CSWR, 1999.