Stephen C. Carlson is Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University's Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry. He holds a PhD from Duke University, and spent two years at Uppsala University in Sweden as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Pre-Constantinian Christianity.
This work is the most complete edition to date of the remains of the lost five-volume work, Exposition of Dominical Oracles, by Papias of Hierapolis, a second-century Christian commentator