Dr Nicholas Baker-Brian

Dr Nicholas Baker-Brian

Nicholas Baker-Brian is Reader in New Testament and Early Christian Studies at Cardiff University. He is interested in Early Christianity, Manichaeism and Gnosticism, Greek and Latin Patristics, the Constantinian dynasty, and the writings of Julian the Apostate on which he has published widely. He has received the British Academy Doctoral Award. Previously, he participated in three research projects: Constantinian Culture: A History of the Constantinian Dynasty, Imperial Wisdom: Towards a New History of the Third Century CE, and New Translation and Commentary of Psalms of Heracleides (Coptic Gospels and Associated Texts series). He is an active member of the research groups “Biography in Late Antiquity Research Cluster”, “Dynasty Ancient and Modern Research Cluster”, and the Cardiff Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture.