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About Rob Heaton
I am a recent PhD in New Testament, Christian origins, and early Christian studies (University of Denver, 2019), with interests in the Gospels, Apostolic Fathers, canon studies, heresy/orthodoxy, and much more. Although I now teach seminary students online, I have also taught undergraduates in a non-religious setting and can speak to and with audiences of all types. Being a “close reader” of texts, I love to devour new research on these topics and would be delighted to host interviews with authors not only in these specialties but in other areas of religious studies in which I have taken an interest, such as, e.g., [1] world Christianities, especially forms of belief in places like east Asia (China, North Korea, Myanmar, etc.) where it is practiced “underground,” [2] Christianity and philosophy, and [3] theism, atheism, and declining religious adherence in the Western world. Aside from religion, I am an avid cyclist, I love the outdoors, and enjoy sports like baseball and soccer. I am from St. Louis originally, but live in Colorado presently, and having listened for many years to podcasts ranging from Star Wars and sports to news, politics, true crime, and, yes, “New Books in Religion!”NBN Episodes hosted by Rob:
August 21, 2024
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in 5 Minutes (Equinox Books, 2024), co-edited by Philippe Guillaume and Diana V. Edelman, is a digestible, concise…
August 4, 2024
The Shepherd of Hermas
Written in Rome as a book with revelatory intentions, the early Christian work known as the Shepherd of Hermas flourished especially in the second, th…
July 18, 2024
Eusebius the Evangelist
The development of Christian scriptures did not terminate once, for example, following Irenaeus and other influential patristic figures, the four gosp…
June 23, 2024
Performing for the Don
From his overwhelming embrace by evangelicals and other people of faith to his championing of policies and conservative judicial candidates long sough…
June 8, 2024
Luke Was Not a Christian
One orthodoxy of critical biblical scholarship on the Third Gospel, attributed by later Christian tradition to a companion of Paul named Luke, holds t…
February 6, 2024
The Muratorian Fragment
Discovered and published in 1740 by the Ambrosian librarian Ludovico Muratori, the so-called “Muratorian Fragment” has long featured for New Testament…
February 5, 2024
An Embodied Reading of the Shepherd of Hermas
Among early Christian books abandoned at the flipside of the canonical boundary, the Shepherd of Hermas is presently undergoing an exciting renaissanc…
December 16, 2023
A Disabled Apostle
For generations, Pauline scholars have responded in different ways to the Apostle’s “thorn in the flesh” (2 Cor. 12:7), our clearest indication that P…
November 26, 2023
Suds Series
On this episode, J. Daniel takes readers back more than forty years, telling a story that is part baseball history, part urban history, and part U.S. …
November 16, 2023
Early Christ Groups and Greco-Roman Associations
Exegetes have long relied on the framework of the Acts of the Apostles to understand the behavior and organization of Paul’s various ekklēsiai (assemb…
October 22, 2023
A Jewish Paul
Excavating and interpreting Paul’s thought, belief, ideas, and mission from his authentic letters and those otherwise attributed to him remains an ong…
October 4, 2023
First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences
Tom Boomershine, one of the pioneers of performance criticism for biblical texts, joined the New Books Network to discuss the publication of First-Cen…
September 26, 2023
Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God
Michael Kochenash published his revised dissertation from Claremont School of Theology as Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God (Lexi…
August 30, 2023
John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity
In John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity (Equinox Books, 2023), a revision of his 2019 dissertation, Joshua Schachterle evaluates the…
August 2, 2023
Jesus
Alongside their collective acumen in traditional historical-critical and social-scientific approaches to the New Testament, James Crossley and Robert …
July 29, 2023
The Origins of Judaism
In The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal (Yale University Press, 2022), Yonatan Adler pursues the societal adoption of reco…
July 3, 2023
The Magi
The Magi: Who They Were, How They’ve Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate (Fortress Press, 2022) is Eric Vanden Eykel’s second monograph over…
June 25, 2023
The Apostle and the Empire
Was Paul silent on the affairs and injustices of the Roman Empire? Or have his letters just been misread? In The Apostle and the Empire: Paul’s Implic…
May 26, 2023
Before There Was a Bible
Before There Was a Bible: Authorities in Early Christianity (T&T Clark, 2023) is a natural outgrowth from McDonald’s significant and ongoing work in t…