Theology Department Faculty

Pheme Perkins

Joseph Professor of Catholic Spirituality

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Pheme Perkins

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall 429N

Telephone: 617-552-3889

Email: pheme.perkins@bc.edu

Education

  • A.B., St. John's College
  • Ph.D., Harvard University

Courses

  • Perspectives on Western Culture
  • First-Year Honors Seminar
  • New Testament Ethics
  • Pauline Tradition
  • Gospel of Mark
  • Gospel of John
  • New Testament Christology
  • First-Year Ph.D. Colloquium

Research Interests

Greco-Roman cultural setting of early Christianity, hellenistic philosophy, Pauline epistles, Johannine writings, Resurrection and early Christian eschatology, Nag Hammadi corpus, Gnosticism, Irenaeus

Office Hours

M 3鈥�4 p.m., Tu 12鈥�1 p.m., W 5-5:50 p.m. (by appointment), F 11:30 a.m.鈥�12:30 p.m.

Curriculum Vitae

Books

1 Corinthians.聽 Paideia Commentary Series; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic,聽 2012.

Reading the New Testament. 3rd聽edition revised.聽 Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 2012. (Awarded 1st prize in Scripture category by Catholic Publishers Association, 2013).

Books Translated into Other Languages

Revelation. Collegeville Bible Commentary, 1983 [Italian]; with R. Fuller.

Who is This Christ?, 1986 [Japanese].

Jesus as Teacher, 1990 [Spanish].

First and Second Peter, James and Jude. Interpretation Commentary Series, 1995 [Japanese].

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