Gay L. Byron

Gay L. Byron, Baptist Missionary Training School Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins

contact information:
gbyron@crcds.edu
(585) 340-9591

B.S. Florida State University
M.B.A. Clark Atlanta University
M.Div., M.Phil., Ph.D. Union Theological Seminary

Courses Taught
Paul and the Pauline Tradition; The Corinthian Correspondence; Early Christian Asceticism; The Gospels and Acts; African American Biblical Hermeneutics; The Gospel of John; New Testament Ethics; Ascetic Dimensions of the Black Church Tradition; Images of Ethnicity in Early Christian Literature; and Gender and Sexuality in Early Christian Literature.

Current Research Projects
Ancient Ethiopic (Ge'ez) and Its Usefulness for New Testament Interpretation

Recent Publications
Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature

Professional Affiliations
Society of Biblical Literature, American Academy of Religion, Society for the Study of Black Religion, North American Patristics Society

Denomination: Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.


Related Documents

Gay Byron CV (09/12/2007) (PDF Version) (pdf - 57 Kbytes)
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