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Maria PascuzziDr. Maria Pascuzzi

Associate Professor
STD, The Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome
SSL, The Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome

Contact information

Office: Maher 256, Phone (619) 260-4751, Fax (619) 260-2260
E-mail: pascuzzi@sandiego.edu

Research specialties

New Testament, the letters of Paul, the application of rhetorical criticism to the New Testament, the new perspective on Paul and the iaw; the emergence of Christianity in Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts

Teaching specialties

The letters of Paul, the Gospel of John

Selected publications

“The Battle of the Gospels: Paul’s Anti-Imperial Message and Strategies Past and Present for Subverting the Empire,” Proceedings of the Irish Catholic Biblical Association 30 (2007) 34 - 53.

The New Collegeville Bible Commentary. First and Second Corinthians
, Vol. 7. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2005.

Ethics, Ecclesiology and Church Discipline: A Rhetorical Analysis of 1 Corinthians 5 . Rome : Gregorian University Press, 1997.

"Paul the Enforcer: Using Rhetoric to De-construct an Image and to Reconstruct Theology." In Theology and Sacred Scripture, eds. C. J. Dempsey and W. P. Loewe, 69-82. College Theology Society, 47. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2002.

THRS 116.56 Syllabus