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PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH



Interests

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Matthew
  • Paul
  • Second Temple Judaism
  • Church-Synagogue Relations in the Ante-Nicene Period
  • Gentilization of Early Christianity



  • Books

    BOOKS

    1. Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament: Decision Points and Divergent Interpretations. London: SPCK; Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2010.

    2. Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE). Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007.

    3. Paul and the Gentiles: Remapping the Apostle’s Convictional World. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997. [Description and Reviews]

    4. Jesus on the Mountain: A Study in Matthean Theology. JSNTSuppl. 8; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985. [Description and Reviews]




     Books

    EDITED VOLUMES

    1. Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima. Studies in Christianity and Judaism 8; Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000. [Description and Reviews]



    Books

    IN PREPARATION

    A monograph on ethnicity and identity among "Gentile Christians" from the beginning through to the end of the 2nd century




     Books      

    ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

      Refereed articles

      “ ‘Gentile Christianity’ as a Category in the Study of Christian Origins,” in Harvard Theological Review (forthcoming)

      “ ‘We Gentiles’: Ethnicity and Identity in Justin’s Dialogue,” in Early Christianity (forthcoming)

       “Royal Sympathizers in Jewish Narrative,” in Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 16 (2006), 41-59.  

      “Jewish Christianity, Israel’s Stumbling and the Sonderweg Reading of Paul,” in Journal for the Study of the New Testament 29 (2006), 27-54.

      “What I Learned Teaching NT 101,” in Toronto Journal of Theology 16 (2000), 251-65.

      “’For Herod had arrested John’ (Matt 14:3): Making Sense of an Unresolved Flashback,” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 28 (1999), 35-48.

      “The Law that Hangs (Matt 22:40): Rabbinic Formulation and Matthean Social World,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 57 (1995), 689-709

       “‘Riches for the Gentiles’ (Rom 11:12): Israel’s ‘Rejection’ and Paul’s Gentile Mission,” Journal of Biblical Literature 112 (1993), 81-98

      “Proselytes or ‘Righteous Gentiles’? The Status of Gentiles in Eschatological Pilgrimage Patterns of Thought”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 7 (1990), 3-27.

      “The Mockers and the Son of God (Matt 27:37-44): Two Characters in Matthew’s Story of Jesus,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 41 (1991), 3-18.

      “Rural Bandits, City Mobs and the Zealots”, Journal for the Study of Judaism 21 (1990), 19-40.

      “Zealot and Convert: The Origin of Paul’s Christ-Torah Antithesis”, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 51 (1989), 655-682.

      “The ‘Curse of the Law’ and the Inclusion of the Gentiles: Galatians 3.13-14”, New Testament Studies 32 (1986), 94-112.

       “Levitical Messianology in Late Judaism: Origins, Development and Decline”, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 24 (1981), 193-207.

      “Moses Typology and the Sectarian Nature of Early Christian Anti-Judaism: A Study in Acts 7”, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 12 (1981), 27-52.

       

      Other Articles and Chapters

       “Supersessionism and Early Christian Self-definition.” In Kimberly Stratton and Andrea Lieber, eds., Ambiguities, Complexities, and Half-forgotten Adversaries: Crossing Boundaries in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplements Series; Leiden: Brill, forthcoming)

      “The “Plain Meaning” of Rom 3:28, 4:5 and the Place of Paul’s Juridical Language: A Response to Carsten Claussen,” Modern Interpretation of Romans (New York: Continuum/T. & T. Clark, forthcoming)

      “What Can We Know of Jesus?” in Thomas P. Power, ed., Guide for the Christian Perplexed (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2012), 1-24

      “Supersessionism in Early Christianity,” in CSBS Bulletin 69 (2009-10), 1-27.

      “The Juridical, the Participatory and the ‘New Perspective’ on Paul,” pp. 229-41, in Kathy Ehrensperger and J. Brian Tucker, eds., Reading Paul in Context: Explorations in Identity Formation (Library of New Testament Studies; London: T. &. T Clark, 2010).

      “Introduction to the Pauline Corpus,” in John Barton and John Muddiman, eds., The Oxford Bible Commentary: The Pauline Epistles  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 27-56.

      “Son of God,” Pp. 335-41, in New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, vol 5. (Nashville: Abingdon, 2009).

      “Nations” Pp. 231-38 in New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, vol 4. (Nashville: Abingdon, 2009).

      “The Field God Has Assigned: Geography and Mission in Paul,” in Leif Vaage (ed.), Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity (ESCJ 18; Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006), pp. 109-37.

      “Jerusalem Ossuary Inscriptions and the Status of Jewish Proselytes,” in Stephen G. Wilson and Michel Desjardins (eds.), Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson. ESCJ 9; Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000), 372-85.

      “Apostle. ” Pp. 205-7 in New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, vol 1. (Nashville: Abingdon, 2006).

      “The Vindicated Son: A Narrative Approach to Matthean Christology,” in Richard N. Longenecker (ed.), Contours of Christology in the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005), 100-121.

      “Introduction to the Pauline Corpus,” in John Barton and John Muddiman, eds., The Oxford Bible Commentary  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 1062-83.

      “Introduction” (pp. 1-8) and “Concluding Reflections” (pp. 331-39) in Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (Studies in Christianity and Judaism 8; Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000).

      “In Search of a Paul Neither Lutheran nor Idiosyncratic: James D. G. Dunn’s The Theology of Paul the Apostle,” Critical Review of Books in Religion (1998), 35-55.

      “Israelite, Convert, Apostle to the Gentiles: The Origin of Paul’s Gentile Mission,” in Richard N. Longenecker (ed.), The Road From Damascus: The Impact of Paul’s Conversion on His Life, Thought and Ministry (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997), 62-84.

      “Guiding Readers – Making Disciples: Discipleship in Matthew’s Narrative Strategy,” in Richard N. Longenecker (ed.), Discipleship in the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996), pp. 22-41

      “Moses Typology and the Sectarian Nature of Early Christian Anti-Judaism: A Study in Acts 7,” in Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter (eds.), New Testament Backgrounds: A Sheffield Reader (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), 230-252.

      “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Context,” in William E. Arnal and Michel Desjardins (eds.), Whose Historical Jesus? (ESCJ 7; Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997), 188-189.

      “’The gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles’ (Gal 2:2): Universalistic or Israel-Centred?” in Ann Jervis and Peter Richardson (eds.), Gospel in Paul: Studies on Corinthians, Galatians and Romans for Richard N. Longenecker (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994), pp. 166-93.

      “Jewish/Christian Relations,” in Thomas A. Robinson (ed.), The Early Church: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature in English, (ATLA Bibliography Series 33; Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993), pp. 229-46.

      “Thomas Kuhn, Convictional Worlds, and Paul,” in Bradley H. McLean (ed.), Origins and Method: Towards a New Understanding of Judaism and Christianity. Essays in Honour of John C. Hurd (JSNTS 86; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993), 190-98.

      “The Law that ‘Hangs’ (Matt 22:40): Rabbinic Formulation and Matthean Social World,” SBL Seminar Papers (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990), 14-33.

      “Triumph”, “Virtue”, “Zealot”, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Vol. 4 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988), 922, 993, 1175-1179.

      “Nicolaitans”, “Principles”, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Vol. 3 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986), 533-34, 973.

      “Thessalonica” in Major Cities of the Biblical World, ed. R. K. Harrison (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1985), 258-265.

      “Parallels: Use, Misuse and Limitations”, Evangelical Quarterly 55 (1983), 193-210.

       “The New Testament and Anti-Semitism: Three Important Books”, TSF Bulletin 4 (1981), 12-14.

      “Israel and the Church: A Middle Position”, Crux 15 (1979), 11-13.