Joan E. Taylor, scholar

Joan E. Taylor (1940) is a New Zealander scholar, at King's College London, UK. PhD in early Christian archaeology and Jewish-Christianity at New College, Edinburgh University. Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King's College London. Joan Taylor is the author of several books on ancient religion, history and archaeology. A New Zealander and former lecturer in religion and history at Waikato University, she currently lives in England, where she is Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King's College London. As well as publishing in the field of her professional work she also writes fiction, narrative history and poetry, and has edited the memoir of a Danish 19th-century woman, Cecilie Hertz, translated by her mother Birgit. Joan Taylor's diverse literary ventures make her difficult to classify as a writer.

Works

Books

• Christians and the Holy Places: The Myth of Jewish Christian Origins (1993 Taylor), book

• Beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre: The Archaeology and Early History of Traditional Golgotha (1994 Taylor, Gibson), book

• The Immerser: John the Baptist within Second Temple Judaism (1997 Taylor), book

• Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria: Philo’s Therapeutae Reconsidered (2003 Taylor), book

• The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012 Taylor), book

• The Body in Biblical, Christian and Jewish Texts (2014 Taylor), book

External links

Wikipedia