Dr Daniele Pevarello

Assistant Professor in Early Christianity

e: pevareld@tcd.ie
t: + 353 1 896 4797

Academic Degrees / Qualifications

PhD (Cantab.)
MA (Facoltà Valdese di Teologia, Rome)

Background

Having studied Theology at the Waldensian Faculty of Theology (Rome, Italy) and at the Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel (Bielefeld, Germany), Daniele Pevarello completed his PhD in Jewish and Early Christian studies at the University of Cambridge (England) with a thesis on the influence of Pythagoreanism on Early Christian asceticism. Before moving to Trinity College Dublin, he has taught New Testament and Greek at the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the interaction between Early Christian thought and Graeco-Roman philosophy with particular emphasis on the construction of the religious identity and conceptual world of the early Christians. Until 2011, he has been a member of the steering committee of the “Hellenistic Moral Philosophy and Early Christianity” Unit of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Research Interests

Dr Pevarello’s main publications have focused on the redaction and interpretation of the Gospel of John, the reception of Paul in the second and third century, Second Temple Judaism and the role of Graeco-Roman moral philosophy in the development of early Christian asceticism. His main research interests lay in the study of devotion and religious identity in the Graeco-Roman world, Greek language, the interpretation of the New Testament and its reception, the use of pagan sources in Jewish and early Christian literature and early Christian art.

Departmental Responsibilities

Dr Pevarello is currently Junior Freshmen Head of Year.

Teaching

Undergraduate

JF Christianity in the Cultures of Late Antiquity
SF Introduction to Greek
SF/JS Christology

Postgraduate

Masters in Theology: Module Christology

Recent Publications

Books

The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Asceticism (STAC; Tübingen: Mohr Siebek, 2013).

Il discorso eucaristico in Giovanni 6: unità e messaggio. Complessità e ricchezza di un caso di ipertestualità (Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane, 2012).

Book chapters and Journal Articles

“Ricezione e influenza di 1 Corinzi 7 sul primo ascetismo cristiano: l’esempio di Taziano, Clemente Alessandrino e Tertulliano”, Protestantesimo 64:2-3 (2009), pp. 265-279.

“The Psalms of Solomon”, in J. K. Aitken (ed.), The T&T Clark Companion to the Septuagint (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, forthcoming 2014).