Education:

• Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, IN

• M.T.S., University of Notre Dame, IN

• B.A., Columbia University, New York City, NY

Experience

• Dr. Carlos A. Garcia Alayon specializes in New Testament and studies its development from the rich theological milieu of Second Temple Judaism. He is currently working on the historical and theological roots of the influential notion of a heavenly liturgy. That is, he studies how heaven is conceptualized as ritual space in a wide variety of early Jewish and Christian texts and how ritual actions in heaven interact with cosmology. Consequently, his central texts of interest are Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice from the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrews, and Revelation. Other interests include the relationship between the Bible and Material culture, i.e., the embodiment of the text within manuscript traditions, the Septuagint, and the relationship between the Bible and the traditions surrounding Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Publications

• “Guadalupe and a Biblical Hermeneutics of Beauty: Miguel Sanchez’s Scriptural Aesthetics” in Guadalupe at the Break of Dawn (Publisher TBA, 2026).

• “Exorcism.” Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scroll

Research/Study Areas

• Second Temple Judaism and the Jewish roots of the New Testament

• Heaven as Ritual and Cosmic Space in New Testament and Second Temple texts

• The Bible and Material Culture

• Texts: Synoptic Gospels, Letter to the Hebrews, Revelation, 1 Enoch, Jubilees, Dead Sea Scrolls (Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and the War Scroll)

• The Bible and Our Lady of Guadalupe