Jerome H. Neyrey

Jerome H. Neyrey is emeritus professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a scholar in the Context Group, pioneering a cultural reading of Scriptures. Always seeking to understand the New Testament, he is directed by modern cultural studies, with roots in the ancient cultural world. Recent examples of this are his books Imagining Jesus . . . in His Own Culture (Cascade, 2018) and An Encomium for Jesus (2020).

Jerome H. Neyrey is emeritus professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a scholar in the Context Group, pioneering a cultural reading of Scriptures. Always seeking to understand the New Testament, he is directed by modern cultural studies, with roots in the ancient cultural world. Recent examples of this are his books Imagining Jesus . . . in His Own Culture (Cascade, 2018) and An Encomium for Jesus (2020). See less