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Emma Wasserman is an associate professor in the Department of Religion at Rutgers University (School of Arts and Sciences) in New Jersey. Her research focuses on the Letters of Paul, through which she analyzes early Christian thought on social and intellectual beliefs. She is also interested in the study of Christian groups in light of social theories by scholars like Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Pierre Bourdieu, and others. Her teaching interests include Christianity and Judaism, specifically Pauline Christianity and Apocalypticism within both faiths. She is also the author of two published books, numerous journal articles and book chapters, and has presented over 20 papers at religious conferences since 2001. She has also knows numerous languages, being familiar with Latin, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez), Syriac, German, and French.

Education
She completed her B.A from Brown University in 1997, where she studied Religion and Classics, with a focus on Greek thought. She finished her PhD at Yale University in 2005, focusing on Romans 7 for her dissertation which she later published - "The Death of the Soul in Romans 7: Sin, Death, and the Law in Light of Hellenistic Moral Psychology."

Career
Wasserman began her teaching career alongside the completion of her PhD, in 2005, where she was a summer instructor at Yale Divinity School. The following year, she worked during the spring term as Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University (2006). Moving onto Reed College, she continued on as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion between 2006-2008. She then began her career at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she served as Assistant Professor of Religion for 6 years between 2008-2014. She is still working at Rutgers University as Associate Professor of Religion, a position she has held since 2014.

Books

 * 2018 - Apocalypse as Holy War - Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul. Yale University Press.


 * 2017 - Pedagogy in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, Karina Martin Hogan, Matthew J. Goff, and Emma Wasserman. SBL Press.
 * 2008 - The Death of The Soul in Romans 7. Emma Wasserman. Mohr Siebeck.

Select articles

 * 2017 - Gentile Gods at the Eschaton: A Reconsideration of Paul's “Principalities and Powers” in 1 Corinthians 15, Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 136, No. 3


 * 2013 - Beyond Apocalyptic Dualism: Ranks of Divinities in1 Enoch and Daniel in The One Who Sows Bountifully: Essays in Honor of Stanley K. Stowers edited by Johnson Hodge et al.; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.
 * 2012 - An Idol is Nothing in the World’ (1 Cor 8:4): The Metaphysical Contradictions of 1 Corinthians 8:1 – 11:1 in the Context of Jewish Idolatry Polemics in Portraits of Jesus: Essays on Christology, Festschrift for Harold W. Attridge edited by Susan Myers pp. 201-227.
 * 2013 - Paul Among the (Ancient) Philosophers: the Case of Romans 7 in Paul in philosophy and Culture edited by Ward Blanton and Hent De Vries, pp. 69-83. Fordham University Press.
 * 2012 - Paul Beyond the Judaism/Hellenism Divide? The Case of Pauline Anthropology in Romans 7 and 2 Corinthians 4–5 in Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism: Social and Literary Contexts for the New Testament edited by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitt, pp 259-279.
 * 2008 - Paul among the Philosophers: The Case of Sin in Romans 6-8. Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Volume 30, Number 4: pp. 387-415.
 * 2007 - The Death of the Soul in Romans 7. Journal of Biblical Literature. Volume 126, Number 4: pp. 793-816.

Honors and Awards
Wasserman has received several honours and awards:


 * NEH Seminar (“Problems in the Study of Religion”) at the University of Virginia
 * Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
 * Jacob Javitz Fellowship
 * Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship