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.