Christopher B. Zeichmann

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Welcome to the homepage of Christopher B. Zeichmann, scholar of the New Testament, religion, and antiquity. He presently lectures at Toronto Metropolitan University and has previously taught at the University of Toronto's Emmanuel College and served as Project Manager for Brown University's Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project.

He is excited to announce his book Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings, out 20 September 2025. Order it wherever books are sold!

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His previous books include Recovering An Undomesticated Apostle: Essays on the Legacy of Paul (2023, co-edited with John A. Egger), Queer Readings of the Centurion at Capernaum (2022), The Database of Military Inscriptions and Papyri of Early Roman Palestine (2022), and The Roman Army and the New Testament (2018). He has published extensively in academic journals, ranging from New Testament Studies to Scripta Classica Israelica to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. He presently serves on the editorial board for Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus and The Bible and Critical Theory.

Select publications can be found at his Academia.edu page.

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    Research Project: Soldiers and Civilians

    My dissertation describes and theorizes soldier-civilian interactions in first-century Jewish Palestine, focusing especially on the ambiguity of resistance and collusion in daily life.

    Research Project: Militaria

    I am also working to collect all textual finds (inscriptions, papyri, etc.) that relate to the military in Palestine 63BC-135 CE into a single corpus. If this project interests you, please contact me.

    Research Project: Politics of Interpretation

    Finally, I am interested in the politics of biblical interpretation. I am also working on a book chapter on how biblical representations of gender and sexuality become racialized by modern readers.

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    Welcome to the homepage of Christopher B. Zeichmann, scholar of the New Testament, religion, and antiquity. He presently lectures at Toronto Metropolitan University and has previously taught at the University of Toronto’s Emmanuel College and served as Project Manager for Brown University’s Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project.

    He is excited to announce my book Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings, out 20 September 2025. Order it wherever books are sold!

    His previous books include Recovering An Undomesticated Apostle: Essays on the Legacy of Paul (2023, co-edited with John A. Egger), Queer Readings of the Centurion at Capernaum (2022), The Database of Military Inscriptions and Papyri of Early Roman Palestine (2022), and The Roman Army and the New Testament (2018). He has published extensively in academic journals, ranging from the New Testament Studies to Scripta Classica Israelica to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. He presently serves on the editorial board for Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus and The Bible and Critical Theory.

    Select publications can be found at his Academia.edu page.

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    New Article and Book Review

    Posted by on Wednesday, January 1st, 2020 in Academics, Scripture.

    The new issue of Bible and Critical Theory not only has a new article I wrote about the Triumphal Entry in Mark’s Gospel, but also a review of my book by Robert Myles! Check them out!

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    New book review

    Posted by on Friday, July 19th, 2019 in Uncategorized.

    A new review of my book was published in Journal for the Study of the New Testament and was quite positive! “Zeichmann’s well-written and engaging study of the Roman military throughout the NT is both illuminating and provocative.” That’s one heck of an opening sentence! Gary W. Burnett, Journal for the Study of the New […]

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    New Article in Scripta Classica Israelica

    Posted by on Thursday, June 13th, 2019 in Academics, Scripture.

    For those interested, an article I co-authored with Fernando Bermejo-Rubio was recently published in Scripta Classica Israelica: Where Were the Romans and What Did They Know? Military and Intelligence Networks as a Probable Factor in Jesus of Nazareth’s Fate. Here is the abstract, for those interested: In the wake of the Gospels’ accounts, modern scholars […]

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