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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    Even More Podcasts! (Up to June 2026)

    Posted by on Monday, June 1st, 2026 in Uncategorized.

    It’s been a busy time since Radical Antiquity launched. The book is presently out not just in paperback form, but also as an audiobook, and there is an Italian-language paperback edition that will be out in a few days! I was delighted to have many people interested in interviewing me about the book, including CBC […]

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    A few more podcasts (up to Oct 2025)

    Posted by on Sunday, October 12th, 2025 in Uncategorized.

    September and October have been so much fun – there was a fantastic book launch for Radical Antiquity at Type Books here in Toronto and I’ve got another book event coming up soon at The Spaniel’s Tale. In the meantime, I’ve also been on a couple of other podcasts to talk about the book! Ancient […]

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    More Social Media Appearances (Up to Aug 2025)

    Posted by on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 in Uncategorized.

    For those interested, I’ve done some more social media appearances. You can check out this interview I did with Greg Soden for his “Classical Ideas” podcast. It is also on Spotify and other streaming services. I also recently did a public lecture for the University of Toronto’s alumni week and that lecture has been posted […]

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