Candida Moss
Assistant Professor
Program of Liberal Studies
B.A., University of Oxford; M.A.R., Yale Divinity School; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Research Profile
Prof. Moss specializes in the interpretation of the New Testament and the history of early Christianity. Her first book The Other Christs. Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) examines the presentation of martyrs as Christ figures in the early church. She is currently working on a history of martyrdom in the first and second centuries C.E., tentatively entitled, Cultures of Death: A History of Martyrdom in Early Christianity for the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library. Her interests include suffering and martyrdom in the early church, constructions of heaven in Christianity, health, disease, and disability in the New Testament, and the reception history of the Gospels.
Contact Information
215 O'Shaughnessy
574-631-7296
cmoss@nd.edu