MPhil NT A2: Epistles and Revelation

Prescribed Texts in Greek: Galatians; Hebrews; Ignatius’ Letter to the Magnesians (in The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations, ed. & trans. Michael W. Holmes (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007), 202-213).  See below for essay titles and initial suggested reading for each essay topic. NB many articles and books are available electronically via SOLO.
 
Tutorial Classes (1-hour) will be held in Weeks 1-7 of the Hilary Term. Times to be agreed.

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  • Campbell, Douglas. 2014. Framing Paul: An Epistolary Biography. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • Haacker, Klaus. 2006. “Paul’s Life” in The Cambridge Companion to St Paul. Cambridge University Press.
  • Haenchen, Ernst. 1966. “The Book of Acts as Source Material for the History of Early Christianity” in Studies in Luke-Acts: Essays in Honor of Paul Schubert. Nashville: Abingdon.
  • Hays, Richard B. 2012. “The Paulinism of Acts: Intertexually Reconsidered” in Paul and the Heritage of Israel. T&T Clark.
  • Fredriksen, Paula. 2017. Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle. New Haven: Yale University Press (see especially the chapter on ‘Mission and Persecution’).
  • Keener, Craig. 2012. Acts: An Exegetical Commentary I. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 222ff.
  • Porter, Stanley E. 1999. The Paul of Acts: Essays in Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, and Theology. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
  • Porter, Stanley E. 2011. “The Portrait of Paul in Acts,” Blackwell Companion to Paul. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Vielhauer, Philipp. 1966. “On the “Paulinism” of Acts” in Studies in Luke–Acts. ed. L. E. Keck and J. L. Martyn; Mifflintown, PA: Sigler, 33-50.

 

  • Aletti, Jean-Noël. 2015. Justification by Faith in the Letters of Saint Paul: Keys to Interpretation. Analecta Biblica: Studia 5. Rome: Gregorian & Biblical Press.
  • Barclay, John. 2015. Paul and the Gift. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • Campbell, Douglas A. 2009. The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul.Cambridge/Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • Longenecker, Bruce W. 1998. The Triumph of Abraham’s God: The Transformation of Identity in Galatians.Edinburgh: T&T Clark.
  • McGrath, Alister E. 1993. “Justification.” Dictionary of Paul and His Letters: 517-23.
  • Morgan, Teresa. 2015. Roman Faith and Christian Faith: Pistis and Fides in the Early Roman Empire and Early Churches. New York: Oxford University Press. Especially 262-306.
  • Riches, John Kenneth. 2008. Galatians Through the Centuries. Blackwell Bible Commentaries. Malden/Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Sanders, E. P. 1983. Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.
  • Seifrid, Mark A. 2000. Christ, Our Righteousness: Paul’s Theology of Justification. Leicester/Downers Grove: Apollos/InterVarsity Press.
  • Thompson, Michael B. 2002. The New Perspective on Paul. Grove Biblical Series 26. Cambridge: Grove Books.
  • Watson, Francis. 2007. Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: Beyond the New Perspective. Rev. edn. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • Westerholm, Stephen. 2013. Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • Wolter, Michael. 2015. Paul: An Outline of his Theology. Waco: Baylor University Press.
  • Wright, N. T. 2009. Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision. London: SPCK.

 

  • Barclay, John M. G. 2005. Obeying the Truth: Paul’s Ethics in Galatians. Vancouver: Regent College Publishing.
  • Barnett, Paul W. 1993. “Opponents of Paul.” Dictionary of Paul and His Letters: 644-53.
  • Butticaz, Simon. 2018. La crise galate ou l’anthropologie en question. Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • deSilva, David A. 2018. The Letter to the Galatians. NICNT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • Elliott, Susan. 2003. Cutting Too Close for Comfort: Paul’s Letter to the Galatian in its Anatolian Cultic Context. London: T&T Clark.
  • Hardin, Justin K. 2008. Galatians and the Imperial Cult: A Critical Analysis of the First-Century Social Context of Paul’s Letter. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
  • Jewett, Robert. 1971. “The Agitators and the Galatian Congregation.” New Testament Studies 17.2: 198-212.
  • Keener, Craig. 2018. Galatians. New Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Martin, Troy. 1995. “Apostasy to Paganism: The Rhetorical Stasis of the Galatian Controversy.” Journal of Biblical Literature 114.3: 437-61.
  • Meeks, Wayne A. 1983. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Nanos, Mark D. 2002. The Galatians Debate: Contemporary issues in rhetorical and historical interpretation. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers.
  • Porter, Stanley E. 2005. Paul and his Opponents. Leiden: Brill.
  • Riches, John K. 2013. Galatians through the Centuries. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Watson, Francis. 2007. Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

 

  • Attridge, Harold W. 2009. “God in Hebrews” in The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology, ed. Richard Bauckham, et. al. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 95-112.
  • Bauckham, Richard. 2004. “Monotheism and Christology in Hebrews 1” in Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism, eds. Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Wendy North. London: T&T Clark.
  • Bauckham, Richard. 2009. “The Divinity of Jesus Christ in the Epistle to the Hebrews” in The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology, ed. Richard Bauckham, et. al. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 15-36.
  • Fletcher-Louis, Crispin H. T. 2006. “Jesus as the High Priestly Messiah” [a two-part article] Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, Vol. 4.2, 155-75.
  • Hagner, Donald A. 2005. “The Son of God as Unique High Priest: The Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews” in Contours of Christology in the New Testament, ed. Richard N. Longenecker. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 247-67.
  • Laansma, Jon, and Daniel J. Treier. 2012. Christology, Hermeneutics, and Hebrews: Profiles from the History of Interpretation. London: T & T Clark.
  • Mason, Eric F. 2008. ‘You Are a Priest Forever’: Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Leiden: Brill. 
  • McCormack, Bruce L.  2009. “‘With Loud Cries and Tears’: The Humanity of the Son in the Epistle to the Hebrews” in The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology, ed. Richard Bauckham, et. al. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 37-68.
  • Moffitt, David M. 2018. “‘If Another Priest Arises’: Jesus’ Resurrection and the High Priest Christology of Hebrews” in The Letter to the Hebrews: Critical Readings, ed. Scott D. Mackie. London: Bloomsbury. 120-35.
  • Peeler, Amy L. B. 2014. You Are My Son: The Family of God in the Epistle to the Hebrews. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Pierce, Madison N. 2020. Divine Discourse in the Epistle to the Hebrews: The Recontextualization of Spoken Quotations in Scripture. SNTSMS 178. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press.

 

  • Allison, Dale C. 2013. A critical and exegetical commentary on the epistle of James. ICC. New York: Bloomsbury.
  • Bauckham, Richard. 1999. James: wisdom of James, disciple of Jesus the sage. London: Routledge.
  • Johnson, Luke Timothy. 2004. Brother of Jesus, friend of God: studies in the letter of James. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • Mitchell, Margaret. 2007. “The Letter of James as Document of Paulinism?” in Reading James with New Eyes. London: T & T Clark.
  • Moyise, Steve. 2012. Later New Testament Writings and Scripture: The Old Testament in Acts, Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles and Revelation. Ada, MI: Baker Publishing Group.
  • Nienhuis, David. 2007. Not By Paul Alone: The Formation of the Catholic Epistle Collection and the Christian Canon. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.

 

  • Aune, David. Revelation (WBC; 3 vols; Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1997)
  • Bauckham, Richard, The Theology of the Book of Revelation (CUP, 1993).
  • Blackwell, Ben C., John K. Goodrich, Jason Maston, eds. 2019. Reading Revelation in Context: John’s Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic.
  • Gorman, Michael. Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness, Following the Lamb into the New Creation (Wipf & Stock, 2010)
  • Hays, Richard B and Stefan Alkier eds. Revelation and the Politics of Apocalyptic Interpretation (Baylor University Press, 2012).
  • Koester, Craig R. 2014. Revelation: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • McKnight, Scot, Nijay K. Gupta, eds. 2019. The State of New Testament Studies: A Survey of Recent Research. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic (especially chapter 23).

 

  • Brent, Allen. 2009. Ignatius of Antioch: A Martyr Bishop and the origin of Episcopacy. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Foster, Paul. 2012. ‘The Text of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers’ in Charles E. Hill and Michael J. Kruger, eds. The Early Text of the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 282-301.
  • Foster, Paul. 2007. The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers. London: T & T Clark.
  • Gregory, Andrew and Christopher M. Tuckett. 2005. Trajectories through the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gregory, Andrew and Christopher M. Tuckett. 2005. The Reception of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Jefford, Clayton N. 2006. The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.
  • Vinzent, Markus. 2019. Writing the History of Early Christianity: From Reception to Retorspection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Young, Frances, Lewis Ayres and Andrew Louth, eds. 2004. The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.