Into the Word Fall 2025: Week 5, Matthew Larsen

Professor Matthew Larsen is a historian and archaeologist of early Christianity, and author of Gospels before the Book (Yale University Press); co-author of Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration (University of California Press); and director of The Prison Project, a Carlsberg-funded study creating 3D reconstructions of ancient prisons. On faculty at Yale, Princeton, and now the University of Copenhagen, he is also an Episcopal priest and public scholar whose films and projects bring the ancient world to life for contemporary audiences seeking faith, meaning, and beauty.