CSBS Beare Award

THE F. W. BEARE AWARD

Criteria: This award recognizes an outstanding book in the areas of Christian Origins, Post-Biblical Judaism and/or Graeco-Roman Religions written by a member of the CSBS and published during the previous two years (currently those with a copyright date of 2009 or 2010). Collections of essays, whether by a single author or by multiple authors, are not eligible for the award.

Selection Process: The three-person Adjudication Committee is appointed from the Society by the Executive of the CSBS; it consists of members of the society with a publishing record in at least one of the areas covered by the award.

Nominations: Nominators need to be members of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies; self-nominations are acceptable. Nominations must reach the Society’s Communications Officer by DECEMBER 31st in order to be considered for the following year’s prize. Please direct queries, and send nominations, to:

Richard S. Ascough
Queen’s Theological College
Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6
rsa@queensu.ca

The award of $500 is announced each year at the Annual General Meeting of the CSBS (usually late May - early June).

This award has been established in honour of Francis (Frank) Wright Beare, one of Canada’s most reknowned New Testament scholars. He was born in Toronto in 1902, studied in Toronto, Paris and Cairo, and taught at the Presbyterian College in Montreal (1933-46) and Trinity College in Toronto (1946-68). He participated actively in the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and was named President of the Society in 1942; he was also President of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1969. For a bibliography and personal appreciations, see the Festschrift prepared in his honour: From Jesus to Paul, edited by Peter Richardson and John C. Hurd (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1984).

Previous Winners:

2010: Colleen Shantz, Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostle's Life and Thought. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

2009: Terrence Donaldson, Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE). Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007.

2008: Kimberly Stratton, Naming the Witch: Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World. Columbia University Press, 2007.

2007: John S. Kloppenborg, The Tenants in the Vineyard: Ideology, Economics, and Agrarian Conflict in Jewish Palestine. WUNT 195. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.

2006: Alan Segal, Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion. New York: Doubleday, 2004.

2005: Stephen Westerholm, Perspectives Old and New on Paul: The “Lutheran” Paul and His Critics. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

2004: Philip Harland, Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003.

2003: Adele Reinhartz, Befriending the Beloved Disciple: A Jewish Reading of the Gospel of John. New York: Continuum, 2001.

2002: William E. Arnal, Jesus and the Village Scribes: Galilean Conflicts and the Setting of Q. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.

2001: John S. Kloppenborg Verbin, Excavating Q: The History and Setting of the Sayings Gospel. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000.

2000: Alan Kirk, The Composition of the Sayings Source: Genre, Synchrony, and Wisdom. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998.

1998: Terry Donaldson, Paul and the Gentiles: Remapping the Apostle’s Convictional World. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997.

1997: Steve Wilson, Related Strangers: Jews and Christians 70-170 C.E. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.