Associate Professor
Office: Lady Eaton College S118.4
Phone: 705-748-1011 x7276
E-Mail: richardlast@trentu.ca
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B.A. (York), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Recent Publications
LAST, R. 2025. 'Turning to Christ, Communicating with the Roman Gods: Interpretatio Christiana and "Christian Polytheism" in the Early Roman Empire.' Harvard Theological Review 118 (forthcoming)
LAST, R. 2025. ‘Abraham and the Jerusalem Collection: Kinship Diplomacy in Paul’s Letters.’ Journal of Biblical Literature 144.2, 347-474.
LAST, R. 2025. ‘Conflict, Contact, and Collegia: The Bridging and Bonding Associations of Roman Antiquity, and their Effects on Social Capital.’ Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 74.2, 205-229.
LAST, R. 2024. 'Housing Neighborhoods, and Intra-Urban Networks'. In The Oxford Handbook to the New Testament in the Roman Empire. Edited by Harry Maier, Emiliano Urciuoli, and Heidi Wendt. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
LAST, R. 2024. 'Houses and Meeting Places'. In Behind the Scenes of the New Testament: Cultural, Social and Historical Contexts. Edited by T.J. Lang, Bruce W. Longnecker, and Elizabeth E. Shively. Baker Academic, 94-100.
LAST R. 2022. 'Paul among the Fluent in Corinth: Introducing Paul and the "Associated Behaviours" of Stuttering into the Study of Dysfluency in Antiquity.' Novum Testamentum 64.1, 54-78.
LAST R. 2022. 'A First-Century Christian Inscription? The Nobilis Funerary Altar (CIL 13.1820) and a Return to Alphonse De Boissieu.' Journal of Epigraphic Studies 5: 29-49.
LAST R. 2022. 'Christ Worship in the Neighbourhood: Corinth's Ekklēsia and its Vicinity (1 Cor. 14.22-25).' New Testament Studies 68.3.
LAST R. 2022. ‘Julian Christ Worshippers and their Connection to a Collegium in First-Century Lyon: Reintroducing the Epitaph of Julia Adepta.’ Pages 377-396 in Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity. Edited by Bruce W. Longenecker. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press.
LAST R. 2021. ‘A Fictive Membership Rush and Curatorial Fraud in the Lex of the Collegium of Ivory and Citrus-Wood Merchants (CIL VI 33885 = ILS 7214).’ Classical Quarterly 71: 347-358
LAST R. 2021. ‘Romans 16 and the Sergii Paulli.’ Pages 305-342 in The First Urban Churches 6: Rome and Ostia. Edited by James R. Harrison and L. L. Welborn. Writings from the Greco Roman World Supplements. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature Press.
LAST, R. with Philip Harland (co-author). 2020. Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean: Material Conditions and Mutual Aid in Associations. Bloomsbury T & T Clark.
LAST, R. 2020. ‘The Silence of a God-Fearer: Anonymous Dedication in CIL 6.390a = 30752.’ Religion in the Roman Empire 6.1: 75-103.
LAST R. 2020. ‘P.Oxy. LIV 3734 = GRA III 278: Price Declaration of a Guild of Salt Merchants.’ Pages 495-9 in John S. Kloppenborg, Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Vol. 3 of Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentary. BZNW; Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.
LAST R. 2020. ‘P.Oxy. LIV 3740 = GRA III 279: Price Declaration of a Guild of Tavern-Keepers.’ Pages 499-503 in John S. Kloppenborg, Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Vol. 3 of Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentary. BZNW; Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.
LAST R. 2020. ‘P.Oslo III 144 = GRA III 144: Contributions to an Association of hieronikai.’ Pages 464-70 n John S. Kloppenborg, Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Vol. 3 of Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentary. BZNW; Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.
LAST R. 2019. Review of: Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion. By Jörg Rüpke. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018, in Mouseion 16.3: 535-9.
LAST, R. 2018. ‘Ekklēsia outside the Septuagint and the Dēmos: The Titles of Greco-Roman Associations and Christ-Followers’ Groups.’ Journal of Biblical Literature 137.4: 959-81.
LAST, R. 2017. Review of: The First Urban Churches 2: Roman Corinth.' Edited by James R. Harrison and L.L. Welborn. Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplements 8. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2016, in Review of Biblical Literature (November 2017).
LAST, R. 2017. Review of: Paul’s Ekklesia as a Civic Assembly: Understanding the People of God in their Politico-Social World. By Young-Ho Park. (WUNT II/393; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015, in Journal of Theological Studies 68.1: 308-11.
LAST, R. 2016. The Pauline Church and the Corinthian Ekklēsia: Greco-Roman Associations in Comparative Context. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 164. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
LAST, R. 2016. ‘The Other Synagogues.’ Journal for the Study of Judaism 47.3: 330-363.
LAST, R. 2016. ‘The Neighborhood (vicus) of the Corinthian Ekklēsia: Beyond Family-Based Descriptions of the First Urban Christ-Believers.’ Journal for the Study of the New Testament 38.4: 399-425.
LAST, R. 2016. ‘The Myth of Free Membership in Christ Groups (2 Thess 3:6-15).’ In William E. Arnal, Richard S. Ascough, Robert S. Derrenbacker Jr., and Philip A. Harland, ed., Scribal Practices and Social Structures among Jesus Adherents: Essays in Honour of John S. Kloppenborg. Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 285. Leuven: Peeters, 495-516.
Upcoming Publications
Presently, Prof. Last is completing the 4th volume of Greco-Roman Associations, co-authored with John Kloppenborg. This volume covers Italy and North Africa.