Brent J. Schmidt

Brent J. Schmidt teaches at Brigham Young University–Idaho in the religion and humanities departments. He earned degrees in history and classics from the University of Utah and a PhD in classics from the University of Colorado–Boulder. He is interested in patristics, ancient and modern utopian communities, Greco-Roman history, and New Testament studies. He is on the BYU New Testament Commentary Series board of editors and he is the coauthor, with John W. Welch, of the forthcoming volumes on Matthew and 1 Peter, 2 Peter, and Jude. He is a BYU Studies Research Fellow (2011–present). He is the author of Utopia and Community in the Ancient World: The Ancient Utopian Societies of Pythagoras, the Essenes, Pachomius and Late Pagan Athens (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010); “Temple Elements in Ancient Religious Communities,” BYU Studies 50, no. 1 (2011): 127–53; and a book review of Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology by Adam S. Miller, in BYU Studies Quarterly 54, no. 2 (2015): 202–4.