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Philip L. Tite, University of Washington

Philip L. Tite is an affiliate lecturer at the University of Washington, Seattle WA. He holds a PhD degree from McGill University (2005) and has authored several books and articles. His most recent books are The Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans: An Epistolary and Rhetorical Analysis (TENTS, 7: Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2012) and Valentinian Ethics and Paraenetic Discourse: Determining the Social Function of Moral Exhortation in Valentinian Christianity (NHMS, 67; Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2009). He was a visiting assistant professor at Willamette University and has held visiting research appointments at both Willamette University and the University of Washington. As a specialist in the study of early Christianity, in particular Valentinian Gnosticism, Tite has strong interests in elucidating social processes at work in the study of religious phenomena. He also has strong interests in method and theory, religion and violence, and pedagogical issues in the academic study of religion.

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