David L. Eastman

David L. Eastman is Lecturer in New Testament Greek and Christian History at Yale Divinity School. His research centers on the early Christian veneration of the apostle Paul. His first book, Paul the Martyr: The Cult of the Apostle in the Latin West, integrates literary, archaeological, artistic, and liturgical evidence on this topic. His current research includes Paul in the Syriac tradition and a book on ancient Greek, Latin, and Syriac martyrdom accounts of Peter and Paul. Beginning in the fall of 2011, he will be Assistant Professor of Religion at Ohio Wesleyan University.