Paul and his writings in their first-century contexts
Rhetorical analysis of Pauline epistles
Colossians and development of Pauline traditions
Christianity in the context of empire
Hymns in Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian traditions and their role in instruction and in formation of communal identity
Biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea scrolls, Second Temple Judaism, and early Christian communities

Published Books

Published Articles and Book Chapters

"Wisdom of Solomon," [Introduction and translation of key passages] in Early Jewish Literature: An Introduction and Reader (Eds. Archie Wright, Brad Embry, Ron Herms; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming 2013)
"The Johannine Prologue and Jewish Didactic Hymn Traditions: A New Case for Reading the Prologue as a Hymn," Journal of Biblical Literature 124 (2009): 781-802
"Creation Imagery in Qumran Hymns and Prayers," Journal of Jewish Studies 59, no. 2 (2008): 252-272
"Seeing Stars at Qumran: The Interpretation of Balaam and His Oracle in the Damascus Document and Other Qumran Texts," Proceedings of the Eastern Great Lakes & Midwest Biblical Societies 25 (2005): 107-119

Review of Peter J. Leithart, Deep Exegesis: The Mystery of Reading Scripture (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009) in Review of Biblical Literature (2010)
Review of Pseudepigrapha Sections at the SBL 2008 Annual Meeting in Boston, Henoch: Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Late Antiquity 31 (2009): 225-227
Review of Gordon D. Fee, Galatians. Pentecostal Commentary (Blandford Forum, UK: Deo Publishing, 2007) in Pneuma 31 (2009): 119-120
Review of Michael Thomas Davis and Brent A. Strawn (eds.), Qumran Studies: New Approaches, New Questions (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007) in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 70 (July 2008): 638-639
Short review of Paul M. Hoskins, Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Temple in the Gospel of John, in Religious Studies Review 34:2 (June 2008): 102-103
Review of Vincent A. Pizzuto, A Cosmic Leap of Faith: An Authorial, Structural, and Theological Investigation of the Cosmic Christology in Col 1:15-20, in Review of Biblical Literature (2007)

"The Psalms of Solomon as Solomonic Discourse.” [Pseudepigrapha Section] Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, November 2012.

Regent University Faculty Excellence Award in the area of scholarship, Spring 2011
Regional Scholar Award, Mid-Atlantic Society of Biblical Literature, March 11, 2010
Faculty Research Grant 2007, 2008, and 2010