Recent Books:
Aitken, Ellen B. Jesus’ Death in Early Christian Memory: The Poetics of the Passion. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004.
Aitken, Ellen B. and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, eds. Philostratus’s Heroikos: Religion and Cultural Identity in the Third Century C.E. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2004.
Beck, Roger. Beck on Mithraism: Collected Works with New Essays. Contemporary Thinkers on Religion. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. 2004.
Boda, Mark. Haggai—Zechariah. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004.
Brant, Jo-Ann A. Dialogue and Drama: Elements of Greek Tragedy in the Fourth Gospel. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2004.
Calvert-Koyzis, Nancy. Paul, Monotheism, and the People of God: The Significance of Abraham Traditions for Early Christianity and Judaism. London\New York: T & T Clark, 2004.
Crook, Zeba. Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. BZNW 130. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004.
Duhaime, Jean. The War Texts. 1QM and Related Manuscripts. Companion to the Qumran Scrolls 6. London\New York: T & T Clark, 2004.
Dutcher-Wall, Patricia. Jezebel: Portraits of a Queen. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2004.
Eberhart, Christian A. Studien zur Bedeutung der Opfer im Alten Testament: Die Signifikanz von Blut- und Verbrennungsriten im kultischen Rahmen. WMANT 94. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2002.
Ehrlich, Carl S. Bibel und Judentum: Beiträge aus dem christlich-jüdischen Gespräch. Zürich: Pano Verlag, 2004. Translated as Understanding Judaism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places. London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 2004; Comprendre les religions Judaïsme: Origines, croyances, rituals, fêtes, esprits, lieux du sacré. Trans. Jean-Louis Houdebine. Paris: Gründ, 2004; Jodendom: Oorsprong, geloof, gebruiken, heilige teksten, gewijde plaatsen. Trans. Henk Alberts. Kerkdriel: Librero, 2004.
Gilders, William K. Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible: Meaning and Power. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Gilmour, Michael. Tangled Up in the Bible: Bob Dylan and Scripture. New York: Continuum, 2004.
Hawkin, David J., ed. The Twenty-first Century Confronts its Gods: Globalization, Technology and War. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.
Humphrey, Edith M., with the Primate’s Theological Commission. Meeting God: Anglicans Talk about Creation, the Trinity and the Church. Wrestling with God 3. Toronto: ABC Publishing, 2004.
Kalimi, Isaac, with J. H. Ellens, D. L. Ellens, and R. P. Knierim, eds. God’s Word for Our World: Volume I—Biblical Studies in Honor of Simon John DeVries. JSOTSup 389. London\New York: T & T Clark, 2004.
Kalimi, Isaac, with J. H. Ellens, D. L. Ellens, and R. P. Knierim, eds. God’s Word for Our World: Volume II—Theological and Cultural Studies in Honor of Simon John DeVries. JSOTSup 389. London\New York: T & T Clark, 2004.
Kalimi, Isaac, and Edut beYehosef, eds. Studies in Jewish Heritage Dedicated to Joseph Roth-Rotem. Kefar-Saba, Israel: Beit Berl College Center for Jewish Culture, 2003.
Keesmaat, Sylvia C with Brian J. Walsh. Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2004.
Knoppers, Gary. I Chronicles 1-9. AB 12. New York: Doubleday, 2004.
_____. I Chronicles 10-29. AB 12A. New York: Doubleday, 2004.
Knoppers, Gary and Antoine Hirsch, eds. Egypt, Israel and the Ancient Mediterranean World: Studies in Honor of Donald B. Redford. Probleme der Ägyptologie 20. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
LeMarquand, Grant. An Issue of Relevance: A Comparative Study of the Story of the Bleeding Woman (Mk 5:25-34; Mt 9:20-22; Lk 8:43-48) in North Atlantic and African Contexts. Bible and Theology in Africa 5. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
LeMarquand, Grant and Joseph Galgalo, eds. Challenges to Theological Education in Contemporary Africa. Eldoret, Kenya: Zafpt Chancery, 2004.
MacDonald, Margaret Y. The Pauline Churches: A Socio-historical Study of Institutionalization in the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 (paperback edition of 1988 volume). Translated as Las Mujeres en el Christianismo Primitivo y la Opinion Pagana. El Poder de la Mujer Histerica. Trans. Xabier Pikaza. Estella: Verbo Divino, 2004.
Mathieu, Yvan. La figure de Pierre dans l’oeuvre de Luc (evangile et Actes des apôtres): Une approche sychronique. Études Bibliques, nouvelle serie 52. Paris: Gabalda, 2004.
McLaughlin, John L. Parables of Jesus. Ottawa: Novalis Press, 2004.
Miller, John W. How the Bible Came to Be, Exploring the Narrative and Message. New York\Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2004.
_____. Proverbs. Believers Church Bible Commentary. Scottdale/Waterloo: Herald Press, 2004.
Murray, Michele. Playing a Jewish Game: Gentile Christian Judaizing in the First and Second Centuries CE. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2004.
Parker, Kim. The Biblical Politics of John Locke. Editions SR 30. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004.
Penner, Todd. In Praise of Christian Origins: Stephen and the Hellenists in Lukan Apologetic Historiography. Emory Studies in Early Christianity. London\New York: Continuum T & T Clark, 2004.
Racine, Jean-François. The Text of Matthew in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea. The New Testament in the Greek Fathers 5. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press; Boston: Brill, 2004.
Reed, Annette Y., with Ra’anan S. Boustan. Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Richardson, Peter. Building Jewish in the Roman East. JSJSup 92. Waco: Baylor University Press; Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Segal, Alan. After Death: A History of the Afterlife in the Religions of the West. New York\Toronto: Doubleday, 2004.
Shepherd, David. Targum and Translation: A Reconsideration of the Qumran Aramaic Version of Job. Studia Semitica Neerlandica. Assen: Van Gorcum, 2004.
Waltke, Bruce. Proverbs: Introduction, Translation and Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.
Webb, Robert L., with Katherine E. Corley. Jesus and Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels and the Claims of History. London: Continuum, 2004.
Wilson,
Stephen. Leaving the Fold: Apostates and Defectors in Antiquity.
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004.
Recent Articles, Chapters, Conference Proceedings:
Arnal, William and Willi Braun. “Social Formation and Mythmaking: Theses on Key Terms.” In Redescribing Christian Origins. Ed. Ron Cameron and Merrill Miller, 459-69. SBL Symposium Series 18. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press; Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Ascough, Richard S. “A Question of Death: Paul’s Community Building Language in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18,” JBL 123 (2004): 509-30.
_____. “The Canadian Society of Biblical Studies’ Religious Rivalries Seminar: Retrospection, Reflection and Retroversion,” SR 32 (2003): 155-73.
Beck, Roger. “New Thoughts on the Genesis of the Mysteries of Mithra,” Topoi 11 (2001 [2003]): 59-76.
_____. “Dancing at the Spirit Gates: A Mithraic Ritual Recovered from Proclus (In Remp. 2.128.26 ff. Kroll).” In Daimonopylai: Essays in Classics and the Classical Tradition Presented to Edmund Berry. Ed. R. B. Egan and M. Joyal, 1-6. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Centre for Hellenic Civilization, 2004.
_____. “Lucius and the Sundial: A Hidden Chronotopic Template in Metamorphoses 11.” In Metamorphosic Reflections: Essays Presented to Ben Hijmans at his 75th Birthday. Ed. M. Zimmerman and Rudi van der Paardt, 309-18. Leuven: Peeters, 2004.
_____. “Pollution and Purity, Sin and Absolution: Rome.” In Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide. Ed. Sarah Johnston, 509-11. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
_____. “Four Men, Two Sticks, and a Whip: Image and Doctrine in a Mithraic Ritual.” In Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History, and Cognition. Ed. H. Whitehouse and L. H. Martin, 87-103. Cognitive Science of Religion Series. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004.
_____. “Mithraism,” “Zoroaster, as Perceived by the Greeks,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, http://www.iranica.com/articlenavigation/index.html
Ben Zvi, Ehud. “Observation on Prophetic Characters, Prophetic Texts, Priest of Old, Persian Period Priests and Literati.” In The Priest in the Prophets. The Portrayal of the Priests, Prophets and Other Religious Specialists in the Latter Prophets. Ed. L. L. Grabbe and A. O. Bellis, 19-30. JSOTSup 408. New York\London: T &T Clark, 2004.
_____. “Ahab to the Writers of the Book of Kings.” In Yours Faithfully. Virtual Letters from the Bible. Ed. P. R Davies, 79-83. London: Equinox, 2004.
_____. “The Big Fish to Jonah.” In Yours Faithfully. Virtual Letters from the Bible. Ed. P. R. Davies, 89-90. London: Equinox, 2004.
_____. “The Future of the Society.” Society of Biblical Literature Forum. January, 2005. http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=350.
Boda, Mark. “The Delight of Wisdom,” Themelios 29 (2004): 4-11.
Braun, Willi. “The Schooling of the Galiean Jesus Assocation (The Sayings Gospel Q).” In Redescribing Christian Origins. Ed. Ron Cameron and Merrill Miller, 43-66. SBL Symposium Series 18. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press; Leiden: Brill, 2004.
_____. “Smoke Signals from the North: A Reply to Professor Burton Mack.” In Redescribing Christian Origins. Ed. Ron Cameron and Merrill Miller, 433-43. SBL Symposium Series 18. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press; Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Braun, Willi and William Arnal. “Social Formation and Mythmaking: Theses on Key Terms.” In Redescribing Christian Origins. Ed. Ron Cameron and Merrill Miller, 459-69. SBL Symposium Series 18. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press; Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Calvert-Koyzis, Nancy. “Abraham.” In IVP Dictionary of the New Testament. Downers Grove: Inter Varsity Press, 2004.
Chartrand-Burke, Tony. “The Greek Manuscript Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas,” Apocrypha 14 (2004): 129-51.
Cousland, J. C. R. “Bevan, Edwyn (1870-1943),” “Charles, Robert Henry (1855-1931),” “Farnell, Lewis Richard (1856-1934),” “Hatch, Edwin (1835-1889),” Max Müller, Friedrich (1823-1900),” “Thackeray, Henry St. John (1869-1930).” In Dictionary of British Classicists. Ed. Robert Todd. 3 Vols. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004.
Crook, Zeba. “BTB Readers’ Guide: Loyalty,” BTB 34 (2004): 167-77.
_____. “The Divine Benefactions of Paul the Client,” Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 2 (2001-2005): 9-26.
Eberhart, Christian A. “A Neglected Feature of Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible: Remarks on the Burning Rite on the Altar,” HTR 97 (2004): 485-93.
_____. “Die Prüfung Abrahams—oder: Wo aber ist das Opfer im Neuen Testament? Exegese von 1. Mose 22 aus christlicher Sicht.” In Wo aber ist das Opferlamm? Opfer und Opferkritik in den drei abrahamitischen Religionen. Ed. Ulrich Dehn, 28-49. EZW-Text 168. Berlin: Evangelische Zentralstelle, 2003.
_____. “Beobachtungen zum Verbrennungsritus bei Schlachtopfer und Gemeinschafts-Schlachtopfer,” Bib 83 (2002): 88-96.
Evans, Paul. “Divine Intermediaries in 1 Chronicles 21. An Overlooked Aspect of the Chronicler’s Theology,” Bib 85 (2004): 545-58.
Gilmour, Michael. “Crass Casualty or Purposeful Plan?: Psalm 34’s Influence on Peter’s First Letter,” Word and World 24 (2004): 404-11.
Humphrey, Edith. “What God Hath Not Joined,” Christianity Today 48 (2004): 36-41.
_____. “The Stone the Builders Rejected: Jesus Then and Now.” In Confessing the Faith: Reclaiming Historic Faith and Teaching for the 21st Century. Ed. Craig W. Kibler, 41-52. Lenoir, N.C.: Reformation Press, 2003.
_____. “Kairos and Chronos: Meditations of Revelation, God’s Word and God’s World.” In Fanning the Flame: Bible, Cross and Mission. Ed. Paul Gardner et al., 99-116. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.
Irwin, Brian P. “Yahweh’s Suspension of Free Will in the Old Testament: Divine Immorality or Sign-Act?” Tyndale Bulletin 54\2 (2003): 55-62.
Kalimi, Isaac. “The Date of the Book Chronicles.” In God’s Word for Our World: Volume I—Biblical Studies in Honor of Simon John DeVries. Ed. J. H. Ellens, D. L. Ellens, R. P. Knierim and I. Kalimi, 347-71. JSOTSup 389. London\NewYork: T & T Clark, 2004.
_____. “Jerusalem—The Divine City: The Representation of Jerusalem in Chronicles Compared with Earlier and Later Jewish Compositions.” In The Chronicler as Theologian: Essays in Honor of Ralf W. Klein. Ed. M. P. Graham, S. L. McKenzie and G. Knoppers, 189-205. JSOTSup 371. London and New York: T & T Clark, 2003.
_____. “Midrash Psalms ‘Shocher-Tov’: Some Theological-Methodological Features and a Case Study—The View of God.” In God’s Word for Our World: Volume II—Theological and Cultural Studies in Honor of Simon John DeVries. Ed. J. H. Ellens, D. L. Ellens, R. P. Knierim and I. Kalimi, 63-76. JSOTSup 389. London\New York: T & T Clark, 2004.
_____. “The Place of the Book of Esther in Judaism and Jewish Theology,” TZ 59 (2003): 193-204.
_____. “The Book of Esther and the Dead Sea Scroll’s Community,” TZ 60 (2004): 101-06.
Keesmaat, Sylvia. “The Psalms in Romans and Galatians.” In The Psalms in the New Testament. Ed. Steve Moyise and Maarten Menkes, 139-61. London\New York: T & T Clark, 2004.
_____. “Welcoming in the Gentiles: A Biblical Model for Decision Making.” In Living Together in the Church. Ed. Greig Dunn and Chris Ambidge, 30-47. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 2004.
Kloppenborg, John S. “Self-Help or Deus ex Machina in Mark 12.9,” NTS 50 (2004): 495-518.
_____. “Isa 5:1-7 LLX and Mark 12:1, 9, Again,” NovT 46 (2004): 12-19.
_____. “The Reception of the Jesus Tradition in James.” In The Catholic Epistles and the Tradition.” Ed. Jacques Schlosser, 91-139. BETL 176. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters\Leuven University Press, 2004.
_____. “The Biblical Critic and the Truth: A Response to D. Z. Phillips.” In Truth: Interdisciplinary Dialogues in a Pluralistic Age. Ed. Christine Helmer and Kristin de Troyer, 103-12. Studies in Philosophical Theology 22. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2003.
_____. “Idelogical Texture in the Parable of the Tenants.” In Fabrics of Discourse: Essays in Honor of Vernon K. Robbins. Ed. David Gowler, Gregory Bloomquist and Duane F. Watson, 64-88. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2003.
Knoppers, Gary. “The Relationship of the Priestly Genealogies to the History of the High Priesthood in Jerusalem.” In Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period. Ed. O. Lipschits and J. Blenkinsopp, 109-33. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003.
_____. “Introduction.” In Egypt, Israel, and the Ancient Mediterranean World: Studies in Honor of Donald B. Redford. Ed. Gary Knoppers and Antoine Hirsch, 1-17. Probleme der Ägyptologie 20. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
_____. “‘The City Yhwh has Chosen’: The Chronicler’s Promotion of Jerusalem in the Light of Recent Archaeology.” In Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period. Ed. A. Killebrew and A. Vaughn, 307-26. SBL Symposium Series 18. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2003.
Knowles, Michael. “Once More ‘Lead Us Not Eis Peirasmon’,” ExpTim 115.6 (2004): 191-94.
_____. “Reading Matthew: The Gospel and Oral Performance.” In Reading the Gospels Today. Ed. Stanley E. Porter, 56-77. McMaster New Testament Studies. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.
_____. “What was the Victim Wearing? Literary, Economic and Social Contexts of the Parable of the Good Samaritan,” BibInt 12 (2004): 145-74.
Landy, Francis. “Torah and Anti-Torah,” BibInt 11 (2003): 317-34.
LeMarquand, Grant. “Siblings or Antagonists? The Ethos of Biblical Scholarship from the African World,” African Journal of Biblical Studies 19 (2003): 23-49.
_____. “The Changeless, The Changeable, and the Changing: Thoughts on the Future of Anglicanism(s),” ATR 86 (2004): 401-22.
_____. “Marc Nikkel 1950-2000, Episcopal, Sudan,” The Dictionary of African Christian Biography. http://www.gospelcom.net/dacb/newindex.html.
_____. “Biblical Reflections on a Panel Discussion on ‘Disability’.” In Challenges to Theological Education in Contemporary Africa. Ed. Joseph Galgalo and Grant LeMarquand, 211-17. Eldoret, Kenya: Zapf, 2004.
_____. “Learning to Read the Bible in Limuru.” In Challenges to Theological Education in Contemporary Africa. Ed. Joseph Galgalo and Grant LeMarquand, 63-82. Eldoret, Kenya: Zapf, 2004.
_____. “Appropriations of the Cross among the Jieng People of Southern Sudan,” Journal of Inculturation Theology 5/2 (2003): 176-98.
_____. “A Review Article: Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed, A History of the Church in Africa,” Anglican and Episcopal History 72/4 (December 2003): 511-17.
MacDonald, Margaret Y. “The Politics of Identity in Ephesians,” JSNT 26 (2004): 419-44.
_____. “The Shifting Centre: Ideology and Interpretation of 1 Corinthians.” In Christianity at Corinth: The Quest for the Pauline Church. Ed. Edward Adams and David G. Horrell, 273-94. Louisville\London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004.
_____. “Virgins, Widows and Wives: The Women of 1 Corinthians 7.” In A Feminist Companion to Paul. Ed. Amy-Jill Levine with Marianne Blickenstaff, 148-68. London\New York: T & T Clark, 2004.
MacDonald Margaret Y. and Halvor Moxnes, “Domestic Space and Families in Early Christianity,” JSNT 27 (2004): 3-6.
Maier, Harry O. “Kleidung II.” Das Reallexikon fur Antike und Christentum. Edited by Ernst Dassman, vol. 120, no. 165, 100-200. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2005.
_____. “The Politics of the Silent Bishop: Silence and Persuasion in Ignatius of Antioch,” JTS 55 (2004): 503-17.
_____. “The War of the Lamb,” Christian Reflection 12 (2004): 18-26.
Matties, Gordon. “God’s Reign and the Missional Impulse of the Psalms.” In Beautiful upon the Mountains: Biblical Essays on Mission, Peace and the Reign of God. Ed. Mary H. Schertz and Ivan Friesen, 17-49. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies; Scottsdale, PA\Waterloo, ON: Herald Press, 2003.
Middleton, J. Richard. “Created in the Image of a Violent God? The Ethical Problem of the Conquest of Chaos in Biblical Creation Texts,” Int 58 (2004): 341-55.
Mitchell, Matthew W. “Hosea 1-2 and the Search for Unity,” JSOT 29 (2004): 115-27.
Penner, Todd. “Madness in the Method? The Acts of the Apostles in Current Study,” Currents in Biblical Research 2 (2004): 223-93.
Penner, Todd and Caroline Vander Stichele. “The Tyranny of the Martyr: Violence and Victimisation in Martyrdom Discourse and the Movies of Lars von Trier.” In Sanctified Aggression: Vocabularies of Violence in Bibles and Cultures. Ed Y. Sherwood and J. Bekkenkamp, 175-92. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2004.
Penner, Todd and Caroline Vander Stichele. “Gendering Violence: Patterns of Power and Constructs of Masculinity in the Acts of the Apostles.” In Feminist Companion to Acts. Ed. A. J. Levine and M. Blickenstaff, 193-209. New York: T & T Clark\Pilgrim Press, 2004.
Penner, Todd, with Caroline Vander Stichele. “‘All the World’s a Stage’: The Rhetoric of Gender in Acts.” In Luke and His Readers: Festschrift for Albert Denaux. Ed. R. Bieringer, G. Van Belle, and J. Verheyden, 373-96. BETL 182. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2005.
Piovanelli, Pierluigi. “Connaissance de Dieu et sagesse humaine en Éthiopie: Le traité Explication de la Divinité attribué aux hérétiques ‘mikaélites’,” Le Muséon 117 (2004): 193-227.
_____. “La Prière et apocalypse de Paul au sein de la littérature apocryphe d’attribution paulinienne,” Apocrypha 15 (2004): 31-40.
Reed, David A. “How Semitic Was John? Rethinking the Hellenistic Background to John 1:1,” ATR 85:4 (2004): 709-26.
Reinhartz, Adele. “John 8,31-59 aus jüdischer Sicht.” Bibel und Kirche 593 (2004): 137-46. [revised and translated version of “John 8:31-59 from a Jewish Perspective,”in Remembering for the Future 2000: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocides, vol. 2, ed. John K. Roth and Elisabeth Maxwell-Meynard, 787-97. London: Palgrave, 2001].
_____. “Contagion and Cure: A Response to ‘The Disease of Postcolonial New Testament Studies and the Hermeneutics of Healing’ by Amy-Jill Levine.” JFSR 20 (2004): 111-15.
_____. “Joodentum.” Trans. Reimund Bieringer. In Midden in de Cirkel: Vrouwen en leiderschap in diverse spirituele tradities. Ed. Sabine van dem Eynde et al., 95-108. Antwerp: Halewijn, 2004.
_____. “Jesus of Hollywood.” In Perspectives on the Passion. Ed. Paula Fredriksen, 165-79. New York: Miramax Books, 2004.
_____. “Women at War: Gender and Leadership in Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature.” In Jewish Religious Leadership: From Biblical Models to the Present. Ed. Jack Wertheimer, 35-54. New York: JTS Press, 2004.
_____. “The Grammar of Hate in the Gospel of Love: Reading the Fourth Gospel in the Twenty-First Century.” In Israel und seine Heilstraditionen im Johannesevanglium. Festschrift in honour of Johannes Beutler, S.J. Ed. Michael Labahn et al., 416-27. Paderborn: Verlag Schöningh, 2004.
Runions, Erin. “Desiring War: Apocalypse, Commodity Fetish, and the End of History,” The Bible and Critical Theory 1 (2004): http://publications.epress.monash.edu/toc/bc/2004/1/1.
_____. “Biblical Promise and Threat in U.S. Imperialist Rhetoric, Before and After 9.11,” The Scholar and Feminist Online 2 (2004), http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/reverb/runions1.htm; reprinted in Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence. Ed. Elizabeth A. Castelli and Janet R. Jakobsen, 71-88. New York: Palgrave 2004.
_____. “Miracles, Apocalypse, Globalization.” In Talitha Cum!: The Grace of Solidarity in a Globalized World. Ed. Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare and Gabriela Miranda García, 224-37. Geneva: WSCF Publications.
Schuller, Eileen. “Prayer at Qumran.” In Prayer from Tobit to Qumran: Inaugural Conference of the ISDCL at Salzburg, Austria, 5-9 July 2003. Ed. Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jerermy W. Corley, 411-28. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004.
_____. “Reflections on the Function and Use of Poetical Texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” In Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 19-23 January, 2000. Ed. A. Pinnock and E. G. Chazon, 173-89. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
_____. “Prayers and Hymns, Curses and Imprecations.” In Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide. Ed. S. Johnston and H. U. Piers, 357-59. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Suderman, Derek. “Modest or Magnificient? Lotus Versus Lily in Canticles,” CBQ 67 (2004): 42-58.
Vander Stichele, Caroline and Todd Penner. “‘All the World’s a Stage’: The Rhetoric of Gender in Acts.” In Luke and His Readers: Festschrift for Albert Denaux. Ed. R. Bieringer, G. Van Belle, and J. Verheyden, 373-96. BETL 182. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2005.
Vander Stichele, Caroline, with Todd Penner. “The Tyranny of the Martyr: Violence and Victimisation in Martyrdom Discourse and the Movies of Lars von Trier.” In Sanctified Aggression: Vocabularies of Violence in Bibles and Cultures. Ed Y. Sherwood and J. Bekkenkamp, 175-92. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2004.
Vander Stichele, Caroline, with Todd Penner. “Gendering Violence: Patterns of Power and Constructs of Masculinity in the Acts of the Apostles.” In Feminist Companion to Acts. Ed. A. J. Levine and M. Blickenstaff, 193-209. New York: T & T Clark\Pilgrim Press, 2004.
Webster, Jane. “Writing a Dissertation in Biblical Studies.” Society of Biblical Literature Forum. May 2004. http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=262.
Wooden R. Glenn. “The Recontextualization of Old Greek Daniel 1.” In Of
Scribes and Sages: Studies in Early Jewish Interpretation and Transmission of
Scripture. Ed. Craig A. Evans, 47-68. Library of Second Temple Studies 50;
Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity 9. New York\London: T &
T Clark, 2004.
Appointments, Promotions, Awards, Honors:
Aitken, Eileen B. Associate Professor of Early Christian History and Literature, McGill University, August 2004.
Ascough, Richard S. Aide to Scholarly Publications Programme Book Subvention for Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.
_____. Nominated: Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching, Alma Mater Society of Queen’s University at Kingston (for RELS 214 The New Testament).
Batten, Alicia. Regency Advancement Award, Pacific Lutheran University.
_____. Fortress Press Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award.
_____. Society of Biblical Literature 2005 Pacific Northwest Regional Scholar.
Braun, Willi. Director (2004-09), Religious Studies Program, Faculty of Arts, Univesity of Alberta
Chartrand-Burke, Tony. Three-year Appointment in Biblical Studies at Atkinson School of Arts and Letters, York University, July 2004.
Cousland, J. R. C. Supervising Editor of Religion and Myth in Robert Todd. Dictionary of British Classicists. 3 Vols. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004.
Crook, Zeba. New Testament Book Review Editor, Biblical Theology Bulletin.
Di Giovanni. Andrea. Sisters of St. Joseph (Hamilton) Fontbonne Bursary.
_____. ITER Fellowship.
Eberhart, Christian A. Associate Professor of New Testament Studies, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon.
_____. Postdoctoral Fellow (2001-2004), interdisciplinary research group of the German Research Society: “The Bible—Its Development and Its Impact.” University of Tübingen.
Feuerherm, Karljürgen G. Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Hegedus, Tim. Promoted to Associate Professor of New Testament, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary.
Humphrey, Edith. Speaker for 2005 Convocation, Queen’s College Faculty of Theology, St. John’s, NFLD.
Idestrom, Rebecca G. S. Mentoring Award, SBL Committee on the Status of Women.
Irwin, Brian P. Visiting Assistant Professor of Old Testament, Knox College, Toronto (2004-2005)
Maier, Harry O. Promoted to Full Professor, January 1, 2005.
McLaughlin, John L. Awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor, Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael’s College, April, 2004.
Miller, David. Assistant Professor of New Testament, Briercrest College, August 2004.
Mitchell, Matthew W. Appointed Lecturer, Department of Comparative Religion, Dalhousie University September, 2004. Promoted to Assistant Professor, December, 2004.
Murray, Michele. Granted Tenure, Bishop’s University.
_____. Three-year Grant for The Magical Female: Women and Magic in Jewish and Christian Communities in Late Antiquity. Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture.
_____. Bishop’s University Faculty Evaluation Committee Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Penner, Todd. Granted tenure and promoted to the Cloud Associate Professor of Religion.
Schuller, Eileen. Associate Editor for New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible.
Segal, Alan. After Death: A History of the Afterlife in the Religions of the West (New York\Toronto: Doubleday, 2004) named one of the Associated Press’ Top Four Books about Religion in 2004.
Smith, Daniel A. Associate Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, Faculty of Theology, Huron University College.
Webster, Jane. Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Greek, Barton College.
_____. Chair of the Society of Biblical Literature Committee for the Status of Women in the Profession.
White, Ellen. Canada Study Grant for Women in Doctoral Programs.
Wilson, Stephen. Chancellors Professor, Carleton University.
Wray Beal, Lissa. Assistant Professor of Old Testament, Providence Theological
Seminary, Otterburne, Manitoba.
Dissertations Completed:
Bertone, John A. “Law and the Spirit: Experience of the Spirit and Displacement of the Law in Romans 8:1-16.” Ph.D., University of St. Michael’s College, 2004.
Chambers, Stephen. “Paul, His Converts, and Mission in First Corinthians.” Ph.D., University of St. Michael's College, 2004.
Dion, Marie-France. “A l’origine du concept de l’election divine. Critique des sources de Jg 10:16-11:40; 1S 9:1-10:16 et 1S 11:1-15.” Ph.D., Faculté de l’Université de Montréal, 2003.
Eberhart, Christian A. “Studien zur Bedeutung der Opfer im Alten Testament: Die Signifikanz von Blut- und Verbrennungsriten im kultischen Rahmen.” Ph.D., University of Heidelberg, 2000.
Feuerherm, Karljürgen. “Abum-waqar and His Circle: A Prosopographical Study.” Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2004.
Iavoschi, Roxana. “'The Archangel Gabriel in History and Tradition: An Analysis of his Role and Function in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.” M.A., Concordia University, 2004.
Leonhardt, Karen J. “‘And as for Sarai. . . ’: First Wives and the Inheritance of Land in the Promise Narratives of Genesis.” M.A., University of Alberta, 2004.
Luna, Rodolfo Felices. “Structure littéraire et argumentation de la première épître johannique.” Ph.D., Université de Montréal, 2004.
Martin, Russell. “Towards an Understanding of Local Autonomy in Judaea between 6 and 66 CE.” Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2004.
Miller, David. “Luke’s Conception of Prophets Considered in the Context of Second Temple Literature. Ph.D., McMaster University, 2004.
Mitchell, Mary Louise. “A Reading of the Imagery of Lamentations.” Ph.D., McGill University, 2004.
Mitchell, Matthew W. “Paul’s Gospel and the Rhetoric of Apostolic Rejection: A Study of Galatians 1:15-17, 1 Corinthians 15:8, F. C. Baur, and the Origins of Paul’s Gentile Mission.” Ph.D., Temple University, 2005.
Ristau, Ken. “Reading and Re-Reading Josiah: A Critical Study of Josiah in Chronicles.” M.A., University of Alberta, 2004.
Scott, Ian. “Living the Story: Implicit Epistemology in the Letters of Paul.” Ph.D., McMaster University, 2004.
Wassen, Cecilia. “Women in the Damascus Document.” Ph.D., McMaster University, 2003.
White, Ellen. “The Purpose and Portrayal of the
śāṭān in the Old
Testament.” Th.M., Tyndale Seminary, 2004.
Research in Progress:
Aitken, Eileen. Epistle to the Hebrews in Flavian Rome.
Ascough, Richard S. Recruitment, Conversion and Adherence among Voluntary Associations in Antiquity.
_____. 1 and 2 Thessalonians.
Batten, Alicia. Letter of James
_____. Ideological Criticism
Beck, Roger. The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: The Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun. In preparation for Oxford University Press.
_____. A Brief History of Ancient Astrology. In preparation for Blackwell Publishing.
Boda, Mark. Penitential Prayer: Origin, Development, and Impact.
_____. Ezra-Nehemiah: Redactional and Rhetorical Composition.
_____. Haggai-Zechariah 1-8: Tradition History.
_____. Zechariah, Judges, Chronicles: Commentary.
Calvert-Koyzis, Nancy. Household codes in Ephesians and Colossians and the Greco-Roman family.
_____. Comparison of popular portrayals of Mary Magdalene and scholarly research.
_____. Foucauldian Interpretations of Galatians.
Chartrand-Burke, Tony. Curses and Curse Narratives in Antiquity.
Cousland, J. R. C. Vita of Adam and Eve.
_____. Myth Theory.
_____. Matthew and Antioch.
Crook, Zeba. An English Reader’s Synopsis.
_____. Modeling Exchange in Antiquity.
Duhaime, Jean. The Bible at Qumran.
_____. Sectarianism in Ancient Judaism and in New Religious Movments.
Eberhart, Christian A. The One Who Gave His Life for Many: Studies in Traditionsgeschichte and Religionsgeschichte on the Understanding of the Sacrifice of Jesus in the New Testament.
Feuerherm, Karljürgen. Economic Documents from Larsa during the Reign of Rim-Sîn.
Gilders, William K. Monograph on Moses: An Ancient Jewish Biography.
Irwin, Brian P. The Laying on of Hands in 1 Tim 5:22: A New Proposal.
_____. The Problem of the Kethib-Qere in Ruth 3:3-4
Keesmaat, Sylvia. Non-Violence and Power in Paul.
_____. Biblical Theology of Creation and the Land.
Kloppenborg, John. The Parable of the Tenants: Ideology and Social History.
_____. Letter of James.
_____. Associations in the Ancient World.
Knowles, Michael. Exodus 34:6-7 in Hebrew Scripture, Intertestamental and New Testament Literature, the Early Church Fathers, Rabbinic Exegesis and Islamic Thought.
_____. Edited anthology of lectures on homiletics from the Gladstone Festival of Preaching.
MacDonald. Margaret. Monograph on Women and House Churches.
Maier, Harry O. Roman Imperial Iconography, Pauline Theologies and Counter-Imperial Communal Formations in connection with NT christologies..
McLaughlin, John L. Ancient Israelite Religion.
_____. Prophetic Justice
Murray, Michele. Nabateans’ Religious Behaviour.
_____. Women and Magic in Jewish and Christian Communities in Late Antiquity.
Piovanelli, Peirluigi. Studies on Jewish Pseudepigrapha (1 Enoch) and Christian Apocryphal Texts (Paralipomena of Jeremiah, Apocalypse of Paul, Book of the Cock).
Reinhartz, Adele. Jesus of Hollywood. In Preparation for Oxford University Press.
_____. Caiaphas in History, Historiography and Culture. SSHRC grant for book in Personalities of the New Testament Series, edited by M. Moody Smith. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
Wassen, Cecilia. Sectarianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls
_____. Purity and Women.
Wooden, Glenn. Translations of the Greek 1 and 2 Esdras for the New English Translation of the Septuagint (Oxford).
_____. Commentary on the book of Daniel for the New International Commentary on the Old Testament series (Eerdmans).
_____. Commentaries on the Greek 1 and 2 Esdras.