Rate My Professor Matthew Larsen

Prior to his Copenhagen tenure appointment, Larsen held faculty positions at Yale University (Lecturer, 2017–2018) and Princeton University (Lecturer and Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, 2018–2021). His influential monograph, Gospels before the Book (Oxford University Press, 2018), received the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award, with an Italian translation forthcoming. Forthcoming works include Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration (University of California Press, 2025, co-authored with Mark Letteney) and a monograph on early Christians and incarceration. Key peer-reviewed articles feature “A Prison in Late Antique Corinth” (Hesperia, 2024), “A Roman Military Prison at Lambaesis” (Studies in Late Antiquity, 2021), “Christians and the Codex: Generic Materiality and Early Gospel Traditions” (Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2019), and “Carceral Practices and Geographies in Roman North Africa” (Studies in Late Antiquity, 2019). Larsen's scholarship has appeared in leading journals such as Journal for the Study of Judaism, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, and Early Christianity, and has garnered media attention in The Daily Beast, CHOICE, and Christian Century. He engages the public through a major biography of Paul and a documentary series on Paul’s life premiering on Amazon Prime.