Candida R. Moss is an English academic who is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity on the theology faculty of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana in the United States.
Education
Born in London, England, Moss graduated from Worcester College, Oxford part of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts(Honours) in theology. In 2006, Moss graduated from Yale University with a Master of Arts and The Master of Philosophy in religious studies, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies in 2008. She became a full Professor in 2012, four years after receiving her Doctor of Philosophy from Yale.
Career
A graduate of Oxford and Yale universities, Moss specializes in the study of martyrdom in the early Christian church. In 2002 she received a M.A.R. in Biblical studies from Yale Divinity School. She served as an academic consultant to the television series The Bible and is a frequent contributor to the National Geographic Channel.
A Roman Catholic, Moss has specialized in the study of martyrdom.
Moss writes regularly for The Daily Beast and has contributed to Los Angeles Times, Politico Magazine, British Broadcasting Corporation.com, Cable News Network.com, Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Times Higher Education Supplement. Croy, North. Clayton (October 2013).
"The Death of Jesus and the Rise of the Christian Persecution Myth - review". The Daily Beast. 31 March 2013.
Miller, Laura (24 February 2013).
Salon. Daly, Maureen (27 March 2013). "The long shadow of the martyr myth".
National Catholic Reporter.
Blake, John (30 March 2013). Cable News Network Belief Blog. Radner, Ephraim (May 2013). First Things. Kirkus Reviews.
26 November 2012.
Haykin, Michael (25 August 2014). "The Myth of Persecution".