A Christian scholar, T.C. Schmidt received his PhD from Yale University and, in Fall 2025, will be Associate Professor at Fairfield University and a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. His publications concern topics such as the historical Jesus, the formation of the New Testament, the history of Christianity in Eastern contexts, and the origin of Christmas. Notably, Schmidt has produced peer-reviewed translations from Latin, Greek, Syriac, and Arabic texts. His books have been published with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and others.
T.C. Schmidt (PhD Yale University) is a Christian scholar specializing in the Historical Jesus, the Early Church, and Christianity in the East. He is the author of Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford University Press). He will be Associate Professor at Fairfield University and a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University during the 2025-2026 academic year.
A Christian scholar, T.C. Schmidt received his PhD from Yale University and in Fall 2025 will be Associate Professor at Fairfield University. His publications concern topics such as the historical Jesus, the formation of the New Testament, the history of Christianity in Eastern contexts, and the origin of Christmas. Notably, Professor Schmidt has produced peer-reviewed translations from Latin, Greek, Syriac, and Arabic texts. His books have been published with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and others.
Next academic year he has been appointed a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University where he will be working on publishing further discoveries regarding Jesus and early Christianity.