Staff profile

Dr Annalisa Phillips Wilson will be joining the Theology & Religion Department for three years as a New Testament specialist.  Although originally from the USA, she has lived in the UK since 2013 and has taught at schools in both. Dr Phillips Wilson read theology as an undergraduate, received an MA in Biblical Studies from King’s College London, and completed her PhD at Durham University in 2021. Her research focuses on the Pauline Epistles, particularly in their ancient philosophical context.

Authored book

• Paul and the Jewish Law: A Stoic Ethical Perspective on his Inconsistency
  
  Wilson, A. P. (2022). Paul and the Jewish Law: A Stoic Ethical Perspective on his Inconsistency. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004519961

Book review

• Too much big idea, too little textual detail
  
  Wilson, A. P. (in press). Too much big idea, too little textual detail. Religious Studies Review, 52(2).
• PROCLAIMING THE KERYGMA IN ATHENS: THE ARGUMENT OF ACTS 17:16–34 IN LIGHT OF THE EPICUREAN AND STOIC DEBATES ABOUT PIETY AND DIVINE IMAGES IN EARLY POST‐HELLENISTIC TIMES. By MoniqueCuany. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament II/596. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2023. vi + 223. $100.00.
  
  Wilson, A. P. (2025). PROCLAIMING THE KERYGMA IN ATHENS: THE ARGUMENT OF ACTS 17:16–34 IN LIGHT OF THE EPICUREAN AND STOIC DEBATES ABOUT PIETY AND DIVINE IMAGES IN EARLY POST‐HELLENISTIC TIMES. By MoniqueCuany. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament II/596. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2023. vi + 223. $100.00. Religious Studies Review, 51(3), 812-813. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17949
• A DISABLED APOSTLE: IMPAIRMENT AND DISABILITY IN THE LETTERS OF PAUL. By Isaac T.Soon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xxiv +284. Hardcover, $110.00.
  
  Wilson, A. P. (2024). A DISABLED APOSTLE: IMPAIRMENT AND DISABILITY IN THE LETTERS OF PAUL. By Isaac T.Soon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xxiv +284. Hardcover, $110.00. Religious Studies Review, 50(1), 170-171. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17003

Journal Article

• Those ‘in the Lord’ Are Free: 1 Corinthians 7 and a Stoic Paradox
  
  Wilson, A. P. (2025). Those ‘in the Lord’ Are Free: 1 Corinthians 7 and a Stoic Paradox. The Journal of Theological Studies, 76(2), 464-480. https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flaf043
• ‘One Thing’: Stoic Discourse and Paul’s Reevaluation of His Jewish Credentials in Phil. 3.1–21
  
  Wilson, A. P. (2023). ‘One Thing’: Stoic Discourse and Paul’s Reevaluation of His Jewish Credentials in Phil. 3.1–21. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 45(4), 429-450. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064x221150209
• Συνɛίδησις in Paul's Texts and Stoic Self-Perception
  
  Wilson, A. P. (2023). Συνɛίδησις in Paul’s Texts and Stoic Self-Perception. New Testament Studies, 69(2), 182-194. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0028688522000340
• The Craftsman: Paul’s Law of Christ and the Stoic Law of Nature
  
  Wilson, A. P. (2022). The Craftsman: Paul’s Law of Christ and the Stoic Law of Nature. Journal of Biblical Literature, 141(2), 381-401. https://doi.org/10.15699/jbl.1412.2022.10