Julien Michel Ogereau, BTh PhD
Curriculum Vitae
- 1981 born in Angers, France
- 1999 French Baccalaureate (Science), Angers
- 2006-2010 Bachelor of Theology (Honours 1), Sydney College of Divinity, Sydney
- 2010-2014 Philosophy Doctorate (Ancient History), Macquarie University, Sydney
- 2014-2016 research assistant with the Excellence Cluster 264 Topoi / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 2017-2018 LMUexcellent Research Fellow at the Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Since 2019 research assistant with the FWF (P 31343) project at the department
Research Focus
- Pauline Letters (esp. Phil and 1 Thess)
- Philology of the New Testament
- History of Early Christianity in Greece and Asia Minor
- Greek and Christian epigraphy
Projects
Epigraphic Commentary to the New Testament
Following the discovery of thousands of papyri and inscriptions in Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt in the nineteenth century, a number of New Testament scholars and philologists (such as A. Deissmann, J. H. Moulton, and G. Milligan) have recognised the philological and historical significance of documentary sources for the study of the New Testament, and in particular for understanding its linguistic features and socio-cultural context. The second part of the twentieth century, however, has seen a certain diminution of interest in inscriptions amongst New Testament specialists (for a variety of reasons), to the result that little epigraphic evidence has been brought to bear on its interpretation in recent years. Yet, as two recent conferences held in Vienna in 2014 and Leuven in 2015 have highlighted, much insight on the language and the world of the New Testament could be gained by turning to inscriptions (see the literature below). Funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (P 31343) project, Dr Julien Ogereau will investigate systematically, and as exhaustively as possible, epigraphic sources that shed new light on the historical and literary context of Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians. The final outcome will be an epigraphic commentary on 1 Thessalonians, which will be supplemented with an online digital database containing an illustrative sample of inscriptions relevant to the letter. Additionally an international conference in Vienna will be held in September 2020.
Publications:
T. Corsten, M. Öhler, and J. Verheyden, eds., Epigraphik und Neues Testament, WUNT 365, Tübingen 2016.
J. Verheyden, M. Öhler, and T. Corsten, eds., The Letter to the Colossians in Light of Inscriptions, WUNT 411, Tübingen 2018.
1 Thessalonians in the Light of Inscriptions
Ever since the discovery of hundreds of papyri and inscriptions in the eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth century, New Testament scholars (such as A. Deissmann) have recognised the philological and historical significance of documentary sources for the study of the New Testament, and in particular for understanding its linguistic features and socio-cultural context. Within the FWF (P 31343) project, I am currently writing a commentary on 1 Thessalonians in the light of Greek inscriptions.
Publications (related to the topic of the New Testament and Epigraphy):
Soteriology in Early Christian Inscriptions from Asia Minor and Greece, in: Sōtēria: Salvation in Early Christianity and Antiquity, eds., D. S. du Toit, C. Gerber, C. Zimmermann, Leiden: Brill, 2019, 616–41.
Χειρόγραφον in Colossians 2:14: The Contribution of Epigraphy to the Philology of the New Testament, in: Epigraphical Evidence Illustrating Paul’s Letter to the Colossians, eds. J. Verheyden, M. Öhler, and T. Corsten, Tübingen, 2018, 93–121.
Methodological Considerations in Using Epigraphic Evidence in Determining the Socioeconomic Context of the Early Christians, in: The First Urban Churches, vol. 1: Methodological Considerations, eds. J. R. Harrison and L. L. Welborn, Atlanta, 2015, 245–75.
A Survey of Κοινωνία and its Cognates in Documentary Sources, in: Novum Testamentum 57.3 (2015): 275–94.
Early Christianity in Macedonia
Following extensive research work in Berlin and Munich, I am currently finishing a monograph on the history of Christianity in Macedonia in the first five centuries AD.
Publications (selection):
Early Christianity in Macedonia, AJEC, Leiden, in preparation.
Authority and Identity in the Early Christian Inscriptions from Macedonia, in: Identity and Authority in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece, eds. C. Breytenbach / J. M. Ogereau, AJEC 103, Leiden, 2018, 217–39.
The Social Constituency and Membership of the First Christian Groups at Philippi: A Literary and Epigraphic Survey, in: The First Urban Churches, vol. 4: Philippi, eds J. R. Harrison / L. L. Welborn, Atlanta, 2018, 79–122
With C. Breytenbach, Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae (ICG) 1.0: An Online Database and Repository of Early Christian Greek Inscriptions from Asia Minor and Greece, Early Christianity 8, 2017, 409–19.
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