Dr. Heidi Wendt (McGill) to speak on “Wisdom among the Mature? Pauline Letter Collections, Gospel Composition, and the Codex in the Culture of Roman Miscellany”

This talk proposes a novel, working hypothesis of the socio-material conditions driving early Christian collecting, compositional, and interpretive habits in the latter part of the second century. Integrating recent scholarship that considers Pauline influence on the Gospels with work in classics on the editorial and authorial logics of collections and miscellany, it situates the textual practices of so-called Christian intellectuals within the broader literary and agonistic intellectual scene of imperial Rome.

Heidi Wendt (PhD, Brown University) is an associate professor of Religions of the Greco-Roman World with a join appointment with the Departments of History and Classical Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Québec. Her research investigates religious developments of the Roman imperial period, with a focus on situating Jewish and Christian actors and phenomena in their Greco-Roman milieu. Her first monograph, At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire (Oxford: 2016), examines evidence for the rise of self-authorized experts in specialized religious skills, rites, and wisdom under the Roman Empire.

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