• The comparative sociology/anthropology of artistic activity (especially verbal art and music), communication, and performance
• Debates relating to literacy, 'orality' and multimodality
• Amateur and other 'hidden' activities, including knowledge production and nonverbal communicating at a distance

How the secondary orality of the electronic age can awaken us to the primary orality of antiquity, or what hypertext can teach us about the Bible, with reflections on the ethical and political issues of the electronic frontier.

http://www.bw.edu/~rfowler/pubs/secondoral/index.html.

Completed my Doctoral Thesis on Scripture Performance. Have performed the Sermon on the Mount and other smaller passages.

NT letters

Twice Used Songs: Performance Criticism of the Songs of Ancient Israel by Terry Giles and William J. Doan (Hendrickson, 2008)

The Samaritans: Their History and Culture
Masks in Ancient Israelite Iron Age

The Gospel of Mark and

Dr. Han currently serves on the SBL steering committees of Performance Criticism and Lexicography. His major research interests include reception history, cognitive linguistics, performance criticism, cultural studies, and philology in ancient Near Eastern languages and literature.

Christian origins within Formative Judaism, women in the early church, and the study of oral narrative and social memory in relation to the biblical text.

Philodemus and the New Testament World (ed. w/ J. T. Fizgerald and D. Obbink; Supplements to Novum Testamentum, Brill, 2003)

Divine Irony (Susquehanna University Press, 2000)

Tradition That You Received from Us: Two Thessalonians in the Pauline Tradition (Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie; Coronet, 1987)

Performance criticism is central to my exploration of the listeners' experience of the recitation of Luke-Acts in the late first century, which is one aspect relevant to my dissertation.

Interested broadly in the history and literature of Hellenistic Judaism and ancient Christianity, he has presented papers on a variety of topics, including Galatians, Colossians, Clement of Alexandria, Genesis Rabbah, the Messianic Secret, and the Protevangelium of James.  He is co-chair of the newly created Society of Biblical Literature consultation entitled "Speech and Talk:  Discourses and Social Practices in the Ancient Mediterranean World."  He is currently working on a commentary on Jude and 2 Peter for the Hermeneia series.