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This is the homepage of Hugo Méndez, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Ancient Mediterranean Religions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of two books with Oxford University Press.

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My publications include two books as well as articles appearing in such leading Religious Studies journals as the Journal of Biblical Literature, the Journal of Early Christian Studies, and New Testament Studies.

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(Co-authored) The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 8th Edition

New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Bart D. Ehrman and Hugo Méndez
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The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem: Inventing a Patron Martyr

Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Hugo Méndez
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Did the Johannine Community Exist?

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 42 (2020): 350–74.
Hugo Méndez
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