Carlos García Alayon

Dr. Carlos A. Garcia Alayon specializes in New Testament and studies its development from the rich theological milieu of Second Temple Judaism. He is currently working on the historical and theological roots of the influential notion of a heavenly liturgy; that is, he studies how heaven is conceptualized as ritual space in a wide variety of early Jewish and Christian texts and how ritual actions in heaven interact with cosmology. His central texts of interest are Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice from the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrews, and Revelation. Other interests include the relationship between the Bible and Material culture, i.e., the embodiment of the text within manuscript traditions, the Septuagint, and the relationship between the Bible and the traditions surrounding Our Lady of Guadalupe.