Wendy Mayer is professor and associate dean for research at Australian Lutheran College, University of Divinity and a research associate of the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at the University of South Africa.
Research interests include Antioch in late antiquity, and religious conflict.
Her most recent books are The churches of Syrian Antioch (with P. Allen, 2012), and Reconceiving religious conflict: New views from the formative centuries of Christianity, Routledge studies in the early Christian world (co-editor with de Wet, 2018).
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