Present positions
Dean, College of Biblical Studies
Professor, Bible and Judaic Studies
Freed-Hardeman University
He can be contacted at
Telephone: 731-989-6168
Postal Address: 158 E Main St, Henderson, TN 38340
Curriculum vitae
Justin M. Rogers has studied New Testament (Freed-Hardeman University), Classics (University of Cincinatti), and Judaic Studies (Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion). His Ph.D. dissertation, completed in 2012 under the supervision of Adam Kamesar (HUC—JIR) and Matthew Kraus (University of Cincinnati), was published as Didymus the Blind and the Alexandrian Christian Reception of Philo (2017). Since 2010 Rogers has served on the faculty at Freed-Hardeman University, teaching courses primarily on the Bible and its cultural backgrounds.
Justin Rogers has served as book review editor of the Studia Philonica Annual since 2021. He has been a member of the International Philo Bibliography Project, directed by David Runia, since 2019.
He is the program unit chair of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Philo of Alexandria Seminar (2019–present) and is an elected member of the North American Patristics Society’s Gifts and Awards committee (2022–present). Justin Rogers is a member of the Enoch Seminar, the Society of Biblical Literature, the International Association of Patristic Studies, the North American Patristics Society, and the Society for Classical Studies (formerly the American Philological Association).
Research Interests
Justin Rogers is interested primarily in Hellenistic Judaism and Philo of Alexandria, especially the early Christian reception of Philo’s writings. He also researches Alexandrian Christianity of the third and fourth centuries and rabbinic hermeneutical traditions in the Latin Vulgate.
Justin Rogers is currently authoring a commentary on Philo’s De sacrificiis for the Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series, published by E.J. Brill.
Select Publications
o “Philo’s Reception in Didymus of Alexandria” in the The Reception of Philo of Alexandria. Edited by Courtney Friesen, David Lincicum and David Runia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
o “Atheism in Philo of Alexandria.” The Studia Philonica Annual 34 (2022): 33–54.
o “Origen’s Use of Philo Judaeus” in the Oxford Handbook of Origen. Edited by Ronald Heine and Karen Jo Torjesen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 83–99.
o Didymus the Blind and the Alexandrian Christian Reception of Philo. SPhM 8. Atlanta: SBL, 2017.
o “Vulgate Psalms.” Pages 104–110 in the Textual History of the Bible. Vol. 1C. Edited by Armin Lange and Emanuel Tov. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
o “Origen in the Likeness of Philo.” Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 12 (2017): 1–13.
o “The Philonic and the Pauline: Hagar and Sarah in the Exegesis of Didymus the Blind.” The Studia Philonica Annual 26 (2014): 57–77.