I am a scholar of the history and modern reception of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. My first book, Paul and the Citizen Body, looks at the construction of a civic identity in 1 Corinthians. Currently, I am writing two volumes of a commentary on 1 Clement for Baylor University Press. My work has focused on Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and the Hellenistic and Roman Greek East. I have published over 30 scholarly articles and essays. My journal articles have appeared in the top journals of my field, including Biblica (twice), Neotestamentica, Journal of Early Christian History, Open Theology (and again in Open Theology), Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Postscripts, and Studia Patristica (twice).

Essays of mine appear in America, The Atlantic, Bust, Busted Halo, Paste, Washington Post, Religion & Politics, and other national media. I have written for TED-Ed, the University of Arizona's Bible Interpretation, and SBL's Bible Odyssey.

I have several digital humanities projects on the Dead Sea Scrolls. I have served on the NAPS Digital Humanities committee. My open-access article on data visualization was published at the University of Heidelberg.