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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D.

@pauldwheatley.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof. NT and Greek, Nashotah House Theol. Sem. Mark, Paul, Baptism, Greco-Roman ritual and reading, Rabbis, Origen, Classical Narratology. Manuscript looker, vinyl listener, dad style guru, too many boots and books. Episcopal Priest. Texas forever.

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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Update for the concerned: Smashing that Zotero Word plugin “refresh” button after re-linking be like:
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but someday you may be writing a dissertation or monograph and you may be tempted to unlink your citation software and then start revising the unlinked document. It’s very important that you don’t do that.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
@jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social delivers his A.R. Pete Diamond award-winning paper “Synoptic Work: Compositional Practices, Invisible Labor, and the Synoptic Problem”. Brent Nongbri responds. Follow QR code for Jeremiah’s notes. #aarsbl25 #sblaar25
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Sarah Emanuel responds. Fascinating and illuminating panel! Does reading “Paul within Judaism” mute Paul’s more anti-Jewish texts, even if Paul may be ethnocentrically Jewish in his perspective?
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Nice turnout for the Book Review: Sarah Emanuel's Wresting with Paul: The Apostle, His Readers, and the Fate of the Jews (Fortress Press 2025). Are we starting a new sect?
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Yes, pretty sure that’s a stretched out upsilon with a rough breather
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
By situating Mark 7.4 within Jewish ritual purity traditions and the developing baptismal tradition of Jesus’s followers, this article contributes to discussions of Jesus’s and Mark’s location within Judaism.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This article argues that the narrative introduction in Mark 7.1–4 presents the discourses of 7.5–23 in reference to Jesus’s ability to purify people bodily from the inside out, a theme correlated in Mark to his identity as one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Following recent studies on Mark 7.1–23 w/in Second-Temple & Tannaitic concerns with ritual purity (Furstenberg, Williams, cf. Lev 11.43; Lev 17.15–16), this article considers Mark 7.4 in the context of Levitical purity regulations and early Jewish practices, with other refs to bapt in the Gospel.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Except for Mark 7.4, all other Markan references to baptism refer to the Spirit (1.8, 10–11), sharing in Jesus’s death (10.38–39), or the origin of John’s baptism in relation to Jesus’s authority (11.30).
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
nevertheless makes no direct judgment on the ritually purifying force of John’s baptism, or of the coming baptism Jesus inaugurates at the descent of the Spirit in Mark 1.10–11, cf. 1.8.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Abstract:Josephus interprets John the Baptist’s act of baptizing people at the Jordan river as a washing for purification of the body. The Gospel of Mark, contrasting John’s baptism in water with Jesus’s ability to baptize with the Spirit (Mark 1.8),
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
New Article Dropping Soon I’m happy to report that my article “The Spirit Purifies All Foods: Baptism as Bodily Purification in the Jewish Matrix of Mark 7.1-23” has been accepted for publication with New Testament Studies (NTS) @cambridgeuniversitypress with minor revisions. Abstract below.
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AGNTS Journal @agntsjournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
We just launched the first volume of AGNTS today with excellent contributions from Matthias Konradt, Peter Stuhlmacher, Oda Wischmeyer, @christophheilig.bsky.social , and Christine Jacobi, as well as a few historical pieces by William Wrede. agntsjournal.com
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
June 12–15, 2025, I co-organized the Anima Theologiae conference w/ Charles Hughes-Huff and Gary Klump made possible by a grant from the @CatholicBiblica, integrating hist. and theological exegesis. Gary Anderson, Ephraim Radner, Edith Humphrey, Gregory Vall, and Aaron Pidel SJ. More to come!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Consider me here, munching popcorn, blasting “The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton”, which also happens to be my home town.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I’ve always loved @themountaingoats.bsky.social ‘s music, but now I love their cultural analysis.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Oh so there you are just posting pics of old Mercedes too?
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Yeo
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Feel free to judge my browser tabs, btw.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Oh, just submitting my book manuscript the day before I head to Rome for some manuscript research on a new project kinda vibes this frigid Tuesday.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Truth! Honestly, sorry I didn’t think of this one.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Sunny Day Real Estate is a great choice!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I love this one!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Oh that’s a good one!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana or Pearl Jam
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I’m reading King’s /On Writing/ right now. I love it.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
But also there’s this really big one in the background called “My Book”
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It’s me.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Talking Mark and Judaism over Greek food with @paultsloan.bsky.social Logan Williams, John van Maaren, Jacob Mortensen, and Kasper Bro Larsen #sblaar24
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
See you at 4pm?
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Another one! #sblaar24 run group on the Embarcadero! @nickelder.bsky.social @runhudi.bsky.social and more!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is the content we need at #sblaar24. Thanks @ryancollman.bsky.social !
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
First #sblaar24 run group meeting in the books. @runhudi.bsky.social @nickelder.bsky.social @maklelan.bsky.social and others hit the road at 6:30 this morning.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Taught two classes today. Recorded an online lecture before 6am. Rolled into the terminal at MKE five minutes before departure. Dodged a snow storm on the way. My point? I’m on my way to #sblaar24 but I was never combobulated to begin with. At MKEAirport
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
All good! A small price to pay for some /cutting edge/ scholarship! (Shall I see myself out?)
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Purchased! I had to pay shipping, so it totaled $21-ish. Grab @ryancollman.bsky.social ‘s excellent book on the cheap!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
You get it. 🤝
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I welcome your thoughts. I read some about the immersion of beds and types of bed that were common. The vessels described sound typical. My take is related to my thesis about Markan themes of baptism. However, I am asking whether Mark sees baptism as a universal *internal* ritual detergent.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Sure! The second screenshot cuts off the words “ritual practices”
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Annual self-promotion 4 #AARSBL24. Do you like food? What about baths? Ever thought about baptizing your bed? Are you a fan of the 80s Australian AltRock group Midnight Oil? You’re not alone! Come to my paper “‘How Do We Sleep While Our Beds Are Baptized?’ Tohorot and Baptism in Mark 7:4” Mon 11/25
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Join us #aarsbl24
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Count me in!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
NT / EC Studies Hive Mind: I’m finishing up an intro exegesis course syllabus on Romans and I have a few slots for reception history. Any accessible seminary-level articles or patristic / modern passages of Romans interp you would recommend? 20pp.-ish
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Same!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Congratulations!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
I think my abstract has been accepted (or not?) to Oxford Patristics. See those of you who like Origen, Paul, or Origen and Paul there. Hopefully.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
My favorite day in Intro NT is my “Here’s some bits of Stoic physics… Now here’s Paul talking about baptism and the Spirit” lecture. The red dots are πνεύμα, drawn last week in my setup lecture. Today, I draw “clothing in Christ” and “Christ formed in you” in there.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
I am *very* interested in this!
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