Thomas R. Blanton IV

Thomas R. Blanton IV is a Visiting Assistant Professor at John Carroll University. His teaching and research focus on early Christianity in its Judaic and Greco-Roman contexts. He is the author of A Spiritual Economy: Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus (Yale University Press, 2017), coeditor (with Agnes Choi and Jinyu Liu) of Taxation, Economy, and Revolt in Ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt (London: Routledge, 2022), and cochair of the Early Christianity and the Ancient Economy program unit at the Society of Biblical Literature from 2017 to 2022. He is currently writing a monograph entitled The Circumcision of Abraham: Modeling Ritual from Genesis to the Letters of Paul for the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library.