David A. Burnett

David is a Ph.D. candidate in New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh. He has also completed doctoral coursework toward a Ph.D. in Religious Studies in Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University. He has served as a graduate teaching assistant and research assistant in the Department of Theology at Marquette. He has also studied at Tantur Ecumenical Institute of the University of Notre Dame in Jerusalem, Israel and the University of Oxford. His work has been published with Fortress Academic/Lexington Press and in the Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters. His research interests include early Jewish apocalyptic and mystical traditions found within the reception and interpretation of scripture in the Second Temple period. His work seeks to demonstrate the integral role these traditions play in the study of Christian origins in the wider context of the ancient Mediterranean. The concentrations of David's research in Judaism and Christianity in antiquity include the origins and development of deification and angelomorphic traditions, Messianism and "Christology," and apocalyptic eschatology and resurrection beliefs. His research agenda focuses on tracing these streams of tradition in Second Temple Jewish literature, Pauline literature and thought, Luke-Acts, and the exploration and (re)description of the "parting of the ways" between early Judaism and Christianity. His dissertation is entitled, "Resurrection and the Death of the Gods: Rival Jewish Reception of the Patriarchal Promises and the Argument of 1 Corinthians 15."