Professor Candida Moss

Professor Candida Moss

Department of Theology and Religion
Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology

Contact details

Email
c.moss.1@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
ERI Building
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

My work primarily focuses on a wide array of ideas about the body and power in early Christianity. This included disability, martyrdom, death, suffering, the afterlife, and the work of enslaved workers in the production of the New Testament. I have additional interests in religion and public life, the Bible and education, and cultural heritage. In addition to my academic work, I am a columnist for the Daily Beast and regularly contribute to other publications like Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, LA Times, Times Supplement of Higher Education, Slate, Politico, and CNN. 

Feedback and office hours

I am available for Office Hours by appointment. For US based postgraduate students office hours can be scheduled in the afternoons and early evening (Eastern Standard Time).

Qualifications

  • BA (Oxon)
  • MAR (Yale Divinity School)
  • MPhil (Yale)
  • PhD (Yale)

Biography

I read theology as an undergraduate at Oxford, before moving to the United States to pursue post-graduate work in Biblical Studies at, first Yale Divinity School and, later, Yale Graduate School. In 2008, I moved to the University of Notre Dame to teach classes in the departments of Theology, Classics, and History before coming to Birmingham in 2017.聽

While my academic work is primarily historical, I work in the public sphere as s Papal news commentator for CBS news, a cultural commentator and columnist for聽The Daily Beast, and a religion news commentator and writer for CNN, BBC, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and others. A great deal of my recent work has focussed on the intersection of religion and politics and the influence of certain religious ideas on international relations, policy making, and education.

Teaching

  • Introduction to Biblical Studies
  • Martyrdom
  • Disability Theology

Postgraduate supervision

Gospel of Mark
Early Christianity
Martyrdom
Resurrection and Afterlife in the New Testament and Early Christianity
Reception History
Ancient Medicine and the New Testament
Disability Studies and the Bible
Greco-Roman influence on the New Testament and Early Christianity
Influence of the Bible in contemporary affairs
Ancient Slavery

Find out more - our PhD Theology and Religion  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Research

My research interests include work on disability, early Christian martyrdom, ancient enslavement and incarceration, Christian views of resurrection of the body, and ancient writing 聽practices. I have authored seven books and over fifty peer-reviewed articles and essays.聽

Other activities

  • Research Associate, , NYU
  • Advisory Board, Journal of Early Christian Studies
  • Editorial Board, Biblical Interpretation

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Moss, C 2024, . Harper Collins, London. <>

Article

Moss, C, Coogan, J & Howley, J 2024, '', Arethusa, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 227-253. <>

Coogan, J & Moss, C 2024, '', New Testament Studies, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 307-323.

Henning, M & Moss, C 2023, '', Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 973-986.

Moss, C 2023, '', The Journal of Theological Studies.

Moss, C 2021, '', Studies in Late Antiquity, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 432-452.

Moss, C 2021, '', New Testament Studies, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 181-204.

Moss, C 2021, '', Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 341-369.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Moss, C 2025, . in J Coogan, C Moss & J Howley (eds), Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE鈥�300 CE. Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean, Oxford University Press, pp. 60-70.

Moss, CR 2023, . in C Johnson Hodge, T Joseph & T-S Benny Liew (eds), Divided Worlds? Challenges in Classics and New Testament Studies. Semeia Studies, vol. 100, Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, pp. 105-122. <>

Moss, C 2020, . in The Cambridge World History of Violence. Volume 1: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 572-86.

Chapter

Moss, CR 2023, . in SP Ahearne-Kroll (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Synoptic Gospels. Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford University Press, pp. 245鈥�259.

Moss, C 2022, . in D LaValle Norman & K Crabbe (eds), The Wakeful Night. Cambridge University Press.

Moss, C & Henning, M 2022, . in J Fitzgerald (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Households in the Biblical World. Oxford Handbook, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Anthology

Coogan, J, Moss, CR & Howley, JA (eds) 2025, . Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean, Oxford University Press.