Nina E. Livesey

Livesey earned her Ph.D. at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She joined the University of Oklahoma in 2006, teaching The Bible as Literature, and later was named professor emerita of religious studies. Livesey is a co-chair of Westar's Christianity Seminar Phase II. She served earlier on the steering committee for Phase I. Her second book, Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis (2016), reads Galatians alongside Demosthenes and Cicero and frames the letter as crisis rhetoric that elevates persuasion and self-presentation. A reviewer summarized Livesey's analysis in the language of a "rhetoric of crisis" and asked whether the letter constructs an "imminent crisis where none exists". == Selected works ==

• Circumcision as a Malleable Symbol. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. • Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis: Demosthenes, Cicero, Paul. Salem, OR: Polebridge Press, 2016. • The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic Authorship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. == References ==