About Rubin
Ancient texts.
Personal questions.
I’m Rubin McClain, a New Testament scholar, author, and theologian. My work explores Scripture, identity, and belonging.
My Korean and Scottish-American heritage informs the questions I bring to ancient texts: how people understand their ancestry, navigate cultural boundaries, and find belonging.
Scholarship
Reading identity in ancient literature.
My research brings the New Testament into conversation with ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman literature. I give particular attention to ethnicity, ancestry, and identity in literary texts.
These questions connect my scholarly work with a wider concern for how communities understand peoplehood and belonging.
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Academic formation
PhD in New Testament
University of Glasgow
ThM in Biblical Studies
Asbury Theological Seminary
MA in New Testament
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
scholarship in conversation
Beyond the study
Faith, writing, and public life.
My public writing engages political theology, Christian faith, and Israel-Palestine. It brings the questions of scholarship into conversation with the concerns of churches and communities today.
Read My Writing
I also work with writers through editorial services, book proposal development, and publishing coaching—helping ideas take clearer shape on the page.
Work With Me
Let’s start a conversation.
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