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Dr. Duling has more than 100 written publications and many convention presentations in his chosen field. His recent research in the ancient Mediterranean world and the New Testament has focused  on the social sciences and antiquity: ethnicity, social memory, social networking, ancient collectivism, and the Gospel of Matthew. As examples, he has authored Jesus Christ Through History; and The New Testament. History, Literature, and Social Context; he has also introduced and translated a magical document, “The Testament of Solomon” for The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (ed. J. Charlesworth); and annotated the Gospel of Matthew in The Harper Collins Study Bible. His recent book on the Gospel of Matthew is A Marginal Scribe (2012).

Dr. Duling has also written dozens of articles and reviews in scholarly journals and has delivered dozens of professional papers at society regional, national, and international professional meetings. He has lectured and discussed his research at Boston University, Emory University, Harvard University, the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Medina del Campo (Spain), Tutzing (Germany), Prague (the Czech Republic), the University of St. Andrews (UK), University of Pretoria (S. Africa), Medina del Campo (Spain), the Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain), the University of Montreal (Canada), and the University of Bonn (Germany).

At a combined meeting of the International Social Context Group and the NordForsk-Network was titled, June 18, 2012, in Helsinki-Järvenpää, Finland, he gave the keynote address titled, “Problems and Possibilities of Social Network Analysis from a Social-Scientific Critical Perspective: Paul’s Aegean Recruitment Communities.”

In local history, he is one of nine co-authors of From the Mouth of the Lower Niagara River (2012) and has recently co-authored a book with his spouse, Dr. Gretchen Duling, Ph.D., A Final River to Cross. The Underground Railroad at Youngstown, NY (Buffalo, NY: New Idea Press/Buffalo Heritage Press, 2017). He is also doing research on aromas in antiquity and the New Testament.