Christopher Rowland (1947-), scholar

Christopher Rowland is a British scholar at the University of Oxford, England

Biography

Born in 1947. Professor in the Faculty of Theology, Queen’s College.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Open Heaven: A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Early Christianity (London 1982)
• Christian Origins: An Account of the Setting and Character of the Most Important Messianic Sect of Judaism (London 1985)
• (with Christopher R.A. Morray-Jones). The Mystery of God: Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament (2009)

Edited volumes=

(with John Barton). Apocalyptic in History and Tradition (London 2002)