Pauline Allen, (born 23 February 1948) is an Australian scholar of

early Christianity Early Christianity (up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325) spread from the Levant, across the Roman Empire, and beyond. Originally, this progression was closely connected to already established Jewish centers in the Holy Land and the Jewis ...

. She is

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of Early Christian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at the

Australian Catholic University Australian Catholic University (ACU) is a public university in Australia. It has seven Australian campuses and also maintains a campus in Rome. History Australian Catholic University was opened on 1 January 1991 following the amalgamatio ...

Honours

In 1996 Allen was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, while in July 2016, she was elected a corresponding

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(FBA).

Selected works

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References

1948 births Living people Roman Catholic biblical scholars Australian Roman Catholics Australian Catholic University faculty Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Historians of Christianity Australian historians of religion Female biblical scholars {{Australia-historian-stub