Nicholas Emmanuel Mariakis

I find the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament endlessly fascinating. In my dissertation, I am specializing in the Scriptures' first book, Genesis. I am attempting to demonstrate that Genesis' authors are narrativizing reversals, re-creations, and God's endless relationality – which, in the Bible's story-world, make for the primary colors that later authors eventually remix into what becomes the white patina of resurrection. 

And these primary colors themselves appear to rely on the prelapsarian vision that the relational creator-God created humanity to live an embodied existence with himself in an un-cursed land.

Genesis yields the thought-world/discourse universe that makes death-to-life and, ultimately, resurrection possible. 

Beyond this, I am also broadly interested in Second Temple literature and various modes of scriptural reuse.