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Dr Yashua Bhatti completed his DPhil in Philosophical Theology at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Joel Rasmussen, Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and formerly Professor of Historical and Philosophical Theology at the University of Oxford, and Professor Johannes Zachhuber, Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis, Hellenism and Productivity in the Early Schelling, presents a reinterpretation of F.W.J. von Schelling as a German Hellene whose philosophical conception of productivity emerged through sustained engagement with Ancient Greek literature, mythology, and philology under the influence of Johann Joachim Winckelmann.
He has taught Greek, Latin, and courses in theology and the humanities for the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Classics and Faculty of Theology and Religion. He is currently pursuing research and publication projects in classical philology, theology, German thought, and the reception of Greek antiquity in modern intellectual history. He is also interested in Jewish and Christian Hellenism, the Septuagint, and the relationship between classical traditions and modern religious thought.
His publications have appeared in The Journal of Religion, Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, and The Review of Metaphysics, with additional work forthcoming in Classical Philology.
Yashua previously served as Managing Editor of the Brown Journal of World Affairs, as an editor of Oxford’s Paul and Patristics Database, funded by the John Fell Fund, and as Junior Dean of Mansfield College, Oxford. He received his BA from Brown University and his Master of Theological Studies (MTS) from Harvard University.
Publications
Greek Mysteries and the Early Schelling, The Journal of Religion
Geschichte and Historie in Schelling’s Early Studies of Christianity, Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie
Schelling’s Nonconceptual Grounding, The Review of Metaphysics