Matthew Thiessen

Matthew Thiessen's research focuses on the parting of the ways between Judaism and Christianity. He has written two books, Contesting Conversion (Oxford University Press, 2011), which won the prestigious Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise (2014), and Paul and the Gentile Problem (Oxford University Press, 2016), and has co-edited (with Rafael Rodríguez) The So-Called Jew in Paul's Letter to the Romans (Fortress, 2016). He has also won the Society of Biblical Literature's Regional Scholar Award (2014). He is Associate Professor of New Testament at McMaster University.