Religion Department

Daniel Schowalter

Chair, Religion Department, Professor of Religion and Classics

Daniel Schowalter is interested in archaeological remains of the world in which the early church developed. As part of this study, he has contributed to the first two volumes of the Archaeological Resources for New Testament Studies series. His book, The Emperor and the Gods: Images from the Time of Trajan, was published by Fortress Press in 1993. He has written 13 entries in the new Oxford Companion to the Bible and has contracted with Trinity Press International to write a Commentary on the Petrine Epistles for their new commentary series, The New Testament in Context. He is also a member of the steering committee for the Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism Section of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Schowalter's course offerings include the Gospels and Acts, Revelation and apocalyptic literature, women and the New Testament, letters of the New Testament and Greek. He also teaches in the Heritage Studies program and is director of the Carthage Honors Program. He holds a B.A. degree from St. Olaf College and M.Div. and Th.D. degrees from Harvard Divinity School. Schowalter joined the Carthage faculty in 1989.