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Chris Forbes
Chris Forbes is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, specialising in New Testament history. He is married to Jan, and they have two daughters, Becky and Jo. They live in West Pennant Hills, where they attend St. Matthew's Anglican Church.
Dr. Chris Forbes graduated from Macquarie with a B.A. (Hons.) Dip. Ed. in 1978. He taught in State secondary schools for two years before taking up a Postgraduate Research Award at Macquarie in 1981, while also working part-time for the Australian Institute of Archaeology. He completed his Ph.D. in 1987, while teaching full time. He has lectured in Ancient History at Macquarie since then.
His teaching interests include New Testament History, Greek and Roman History of Ideas, Alexander the Great, and the Hellenistic age (350 B.C. - 100 A.D.).
Chris' research interests lie primarily in the area of the relationship between early Christianity and its Graeco-Roman environment.
Chris Lectures in the following subject:
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