Dakota Hampton

Education 

B.A. - Oral Roberts University, Historical and Philosophical Theology, 2018

M.A.R. - Yale Divinity School, History of Christianity, 2022

Biography

Dakota is a fourth-year doctoral student in Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity. Raised
in a working-class home in Illinois, Dakota transferred from his local community college
to complete his undergraduate studies in Historical and Philosophical Theology at Oral
Roberts University in 2018. He was awarded the Outstanding Academic Achievement
Award in Historical Theology for his senior thesis, which focused on early Christian ritual
development during the Quartodeciman Controversy. He completed a Master of Arts in
Religion in the History of Christianity from Yale Divinity School in 2022.

His present research seeks to understand how the earliest forms of the narrative of
Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection influenced early Christian eucharistic and
paschal practices as mimetic devices within their communal settings. relationship
between the early Christian Pascha and the second and post-temple Pesach. He is also
interested in the influence of ancient Greco-Roman meal culture on Jewish and
Christian worship practices, early Christian material culture, Archaeology, ritual studies,
and New Testament reception history.