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Prelims Bibliography--New Testament Area 1

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS

NEW TESTAMENT AREA GRADUATE PROGRAM IN RELIGION

DUKE UNIVERSITY

General: Aune, David E. The New Testament in Its Literary Environment. Library of Early Christianity.

Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.

Bauer, Walter. Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity. 1934. Philadelphia: Fortress,

1971.

Fredriksen, Paula. From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus. 2nd

ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

Hays, Richard B. The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation. A

Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1997.

Hurtado, Larry W. Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Grand

Rapids/Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2003.

Kümmel, Werner Georg. The New Testament: The History of the Investigation of Its Problems.

Nashville/New York: Abingdon Press, 1972.

Moore, S. D. Literary Criticism and the Gospels: The Theoretical Challenge. New Haven: Yale

University Press, 1989.

Robinson, James M., and Helmut Koester. Trajectories Through Early Christianity.

Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971.

Rowland, Christopher. Christian Origins: An Account of the Setting and Character of the Most

Important Messianic Sect of Judaism. 2nd ed. London: SPCK, 2002.

Schussler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of

Christian Origins. New York: Crossroad, 1983.

Smith, Jonathan Z. Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the

Religions of Late Antiquity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Historical Jesus: Allison, Dale C. “Jesus and the Victory of Apocalyptic.” Pp. 126-41 in Jesus and the Restoration

of Israel: A Critical Assessment of N. T. Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God. Edited by

Carey C. Newman. Downers Grove IL/Carlisle UK: InterVarsity Press/Paternoster Press,

1999.

------. “A Plea for Thoroughgoing Eschatology.” JBL 113 (1994): 651-68.

------. Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters. New

York/London: T&T Clark, 2005.

Braaten, Carl E., and Roy A. Harrisville, eds. The Historical Jesus and the Kerygmatic Christ:

Essays on the New Quest of the Historical Jesus. New York: Abingdon Press, 1964.

Crossan, John Dominic. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. San

Francisco: Harper, 1991.

Dodd, Charles Harold. The Parables of the Kingdom. 1935. Glasgow: Collins, 1961.

Dunn, James D. G. Jesus Remembered. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

Harvey, Anthony E. Jesus and the Constraints of History. Philadelphia: Westminster Press,

1982.

Klausner, Joseph. Jesus of Nazareth: His Life, Times, and Teaching. 1925. New York:

Macmillan, 1929.


Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. ABRL. New York: Doubleday,

1991.

Reimarus, Hermann Samuel. Fragments. 1779. Scholars Press Reprints and Translations Series.

Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985.

Sanders, E. P. Jesus and Judaism. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.

Schweitzer, Albert. The Quest of the Historical Jesus: First Complete Edition. Minneapolis:

Fortress, 2001 [orig. 1901]].

Strauss, David Friedrich. The Life of Jesus Critically Examined. 1840. Philadelphia: Fortress,

1972.

Wright, N. T. Jesus and the Victory of God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996. Synoptic Gospels: General Bauckham, Richard, ed. “For Whom Were Gospels Written.” Pp. 9-48 in The Gospels for All

Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.

Bultmann, Rudolf. History of the Synoptic Tradition. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

Burridge, Richard A. What Are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography.

SNTSMS 70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Dibelius, Martin. From Tradition to Gospel. 1933. Cambridge: James Clarke, 1971.

Goodacre, Mark. The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem.

Harrisburg PA: Trinity Press International, 2002.

Mitchell, Margaret. “Patristic Counter-Evidence to the Claim That the Gospels Were Written for

All Christians.” New Testament Studies 51 (2005): 36-79.

Sanders, E. P., and Margaret Davies. Studying the Synoptic Gospels. London/Philadelphia: SCM

Press/Trinity Press International, 1989.

Streeter, Burnett Hillman. The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins. London: Macmillan, 1924.

Theissen, Gerd. The Gospels in Context: Social and Political History in the Synoptic Tradition.

Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991. Synoptic Gospels: Mark Fowler, Robert. “The History of Reading Mark.” Pp. 228-61 in Let the Reader Understand:

Reader-Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.

Marcus, Joel. “Introduction.” Pp. 15-81 in Mark 1-8: A New Translation with Introduction and

Commentary. AB 27. New York: Doubleday, 2000.

------. The Way of the Lord: Christological Exegesis of the Old Testament in the Gospel of Mark.

Louisville/Edinburgh: Westminster-John Knox/T & T Clark, 1992.

Marxsen, Willi. Mark the Evangelist. Nashville: Abingdon, 1969.

Telford, William, ed. The Interpretation of Mark: A History of Development and Issues.

Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1995.

Tolbert, Mary Ann. Sowing the Gospel: Mark’s World in Literary-Historical Perspective.


Tuckett, Christopher M., ed. The Messianic Secret. IRT 1. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.

Wrede, William. The Messianic Secret. 1901. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 1971. Synoptic Gospels: Matthew Allison, Dale C. The New Moses: A Matthean Typology. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993.

Bornkamm, Günther, Gerhard Barth, and Heinz Joachim Held. Tradition and Interpretation in

Matthew. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1963.


Carter, Warren. Matthew and the Margins: A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading. Sheffield:

Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

Goulder, Michael. Midrash and Lection in Matthew. London: SPCK, 1974.

Luz, Ulrich. The Theology of the Gospel of Matthew. New Testament Theology. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Saldarini, Anthony J. Matthew’s Christian-Jewish Community. Chicago/London: University of

Chicago Press, 1994.

Stanton, Graham N. A Gospel for a New People: Studies in Matthew. Edinburgh: T&T Clark,

1992.

Stendahl, Krister. The School of St. Matthew and Its Use of the Old Testament. Philadelphia:

Fortress, 1968. Luke-Acts Barrett, C. K. “Introduction.”. In A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the

Apostles. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994-1908. Bovon, Francois. Luke the Theologian: Thirty-Three Years of Research (1950-1983). PTMS 12.

Allison Park PA: Pickwick, 1987. Cadbury, Henry J. The Making of Luke-Acts. London: Macmillan, 1927. Conzelmann, Hans. The Theology of St. Luke. 1953. New York: Harper & Row, 1961. Jackson, F. J. Foakes, and Kirsopp Lake, eds. The Beginnings of Christianity. 5 Vols. London:

Macmillan, 1920-33. (Selected Essays) Keck, Leander E., and J. Louis Martyn. Studies in Luke-Acts: Essays Presented in Honor of Paul

Schubert. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966. Johannine literature Ashton, J. Understanding the Fourth Gospel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Brown, Raymond E. The Community of the Beloved Disciple. New York: Paulist, 1979. ------. The Gospel According to John. AB 29 & 29A. Garden City: Doubleday, 1966-70. Culpepper, R. Alan. Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design. Foundations and

Facets: New Testament. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983. Käsemann, Ernst. Jesu letzter Wille nach Johannes 17. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1966. Martyn, J. Louis. History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel. 3rd ed. Louisville/London:

Westminster John Knox, 2003. Meeks, W. A. “The Man from Heaven in Johannine Sectarianism.” JBL 91 (1972): 44-72. Smith, D. Moody. John Among the Gospels: The Relationship in Twentieth-Century Research.

Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992. ------. The Theology of the Gospel of John. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 1995. Pauline literature Baur, Ferdinand Christian. Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ: His Life, Works, His Epistles and

Teaching. 1845. Peabody MA: Hendrickson, 2003.

Beker, J. Christiaan. Paul the Apostle: The Triumph of God in Life and Thought. Philadelphia:

Fortress, 1980.

Boyarin, Daniel. A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity. Contraversions 1.

Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1994.

Davies, W. D. Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline Theology. New

York/Evanston: Harper & Row, 1948.

Dunn, James D. G. “The New Perspective on Paul.” Pp. 183-214 in Jesus, Paul and the Law:

Studies in Mark and Galatians. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990.


------. The Theology of Paul the Apostle. New Testament Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,

1998.

Harink, Douglas. Paul Among the Post-Liberals: Pauline Theology Beyonhd Christendom and

Modernity. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2003.

Hays, Richard B. Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. New Haven: Yale, 1989.

Horsley, Richard, ed. Paul and Empire. Harrisburg PA: Trinity Press International, 1997.

Käsemann, E. “The Righteousness of God in Paul.” Pp. 168-82 in New Testament Questions of

Today. 1960. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969.

Käsemann, Ernst. Perspectives on Paul. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971.

Knox, John. Chapters in a Life of Paul. Rev. ed. London: SCM, 1987.

Levine, Amy-Jill, and Marianne Blickenstaff, eds. A Feminist Companion to Paul. Cleveland:

Pilgrim Press, 2004.

Longenecker, Bruce, ed. Narrative Perspectives on the Pauline Gospel. Louisville:

Westminster/John Knox, 2002.

Martyn, J. Louis. Theological Issues in the Letters of Paul. SNTW. Edinburgh/Nashville: T. & T.

Clark/Abingdon, 1997.

Meeks, Wayne A. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. New

Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1983.

Meggitt, Justin J. Paul, Poverty and Survival. Studies of the New Testament and Its World.

Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998.

Sanders, E. P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion.


Schweitzer, Albert. The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle. 1931. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins


Stendahl, Krister. Paul Among Jews and Gentiles and Other Essays. Philadelphia: Fortress,

1976.

Watson, Francis. Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith. London/New York: T&T Clark

International (Continuum), 2004.

Wright, N. Thomas. The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and Law in Pauline Theology.

Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1991. Catholic epistles and Revelation Achtemeier, Paul J. 1 Peter: A Commentary on First Peter. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress

Press, 1996. Attridge, Harry W. The Epistle to the Hebrews. Hermeneia. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1989. Bauckham, Richard. The Theology of the Book of Revelation. New Testament Theology.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Bauckham, Richard J. Jude, 2 Peter. WBC 40. Waco TXC: Word, 1983. Caird, George B. A Commentary on the Revelation of St. John the Divine. 2nd ed. Black’s New

Testament Commentaries. London: Black, 1984. Collins, John J. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature.

2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998. Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Letter of James: A New Translation with Introduction and

Commentary. AB 37A. New York: Doubleday, 1995. Koester, Craig R. Hebrews. AB 36. New York: Doubleday, 2001. Schüssler Fiorenza, Elizabeth. The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment. 2nd ed.

Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998. Wall, Robert. “Introduction to Epistolary Literature.” Pp. 369-91 in The New Interpreter’s Bible.

Edited by L. E. Keck. Nashville: Abingdon, 2002.


New Testament Theology Bultmann, R. Theology of the New Testament. 2 vols. in 1. New York: Scribners, 1951-55. Childs, Brevard S. Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on

the Christian Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992. Gabler, Johann Philipp. “On the Proper Distinction Between Biblical and Dogmatic Theology.”

Scottish Journal of Theology 33 (1980): 133-58. Morgan, Robert. “Theology (NT).” Pp. 6.473-83 in Anchor Bible Dictionary, 1992. Schlatter, Adolf. “The Theology of the New Testament and Dogmatics.” Pp. 117-66 in The

Nature of New Testament Theology. Edited by Robet Morgan. Naperville IL: Alec R. Allenson, 1973.

Wrede, William. “On the Task and Methods of ‘New Testament Theology’.” Pp. 68-116 in The Nature of New Testament Theology. Edited by Robet Morgan. Naperville IL: Alec R. Allenson, 1973.

Text and canon Childs, Brevard S. “Excursus I. The Hermeneutical Problem in New Testament Text Criticism.”

Pp. 518-30 in The New Testament as Canon: An Introduction. Valley Forge PA: Trinity Press, 1994.

Ehrman, Bart D. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Gamble, Harry Y. “Canon, New Testament.” Pp. 1.852-61 in Anchor Bible Dictionary. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Gese, Harmut. “The Biblical View of Scripture.” Pp. 9-33 in Essays on Biblical Theology. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1981.

Holmes, Michael W. “Reasoned Eclecticism in New Testament Textual Criticism.” Pp. 336-60 in The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on The Status Quaestionis. Edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes. Studies and Documents. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.

Metzger, B. M. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. 2nd ed.

Metzger, Bruce M. The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

Westcott, B. F., and F. J. A. Hort. Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek with Notes on Selected Readings. 1882. Peabody MA: Hendrickson, 1988.

Greco-Roman environment Carcopino, Jérôme. Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the

Empire. London: Routledge, 1941.

Deissmann, A. Light from the Ancient East: The New Testament Illustrated by Recently

Discovered Texts of the Graeco-Roman World. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1978;

orig. 1922.

DeSilva, David A. Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture.

Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2000.

Klauck, H.-J. The Religious Context of Early Christianity: A Guide to Graeco-Roman Religions.

SNTW. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2000.

MacMullen, R. Paganism in the Roman Empire. New Haven/London: Yale University Press,

1981.

Malherbe, Abraham J., ed. Moral Exhortation: A Greco-Roman Sourcebook. Philadelphia:

Westminster, 1986.


Meeks, Wayne A. The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries. New Haven:

Yale University Press, 1993.

Millar, F. The Roman Near East 31 BC-AD 337. Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University

Press, 1993.

Millar, Fergus. The Emperor in the Roman World (31 BC - AD 337). Ithaca NC: Cornell


Nock, Arthur Darby. Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to

Augustine of Hippo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1933.

Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New

York: Schocken Books, 1975.

Price, S. R. F. Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Stambaugh, John E., and David L. Balch. The New Testament in Its Social Environment.

Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986.

Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Jerome Lectures 16. Ann Arbor:

University of Michigan Press, 1988.

Jewish environment

Barclay, J. M. G. Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora from Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE - 117

CE). Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1996.

Boyarin, Daniel. “Introduction; the Close Call; Quo Vadis.” Pp. 1-66 in Dying for God:

Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism. Figurae. Stanford University

Press, 1999.

Cohen, S. J. D. “The Significance of Yavneh: Pharisees, Rabbis, and the End of Jewish

Sectarianism.” HUCA 55 (1984): 27-53.

Collins, J. J. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to the Jewish Matrix of Christianity.

New York: Crossroad, 1984.

Goodman, M. The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome A.D.

66-70. Cambridge/New York/Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Grabbe, L. L. Judaism from Cyrus to Hadrian. Vol. 2: The Roman Period. Minneapolis:

Fortress, 1992.

Hengel, M. Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in Their Encounter in Palestine During the Early

Hellenistic Period. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1974.

Ilan, T. Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996.

Levine, L. I. The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years. New Haven/London: Yale


Moore, G. F. Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era. New York: Schocken, 1971

[orig. 1927-1930].

Neusner, J. From Politics to Piety: The Emergence of Pharisaic Judaism. Englewood Cliffs,

N.J.: Prenctice-Hall, 1973.

Nickelsburg, George W. E. Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah. 2nd ed.

Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 2005.

Sanders, E. P. Judaism: Practice and Belief 63 BCE-66 CE. London/Philadelphia: SCM/Trinity

Press International, 1992.


Schürer, E. The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135).

Edited by Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar, and Martin Goodman. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark,

1973-87.

Schwartz, D. R. “Introduction.” Pp. 1-26 in Studies in the Jewish Background of Christianity.

WUNT 60. Tübingen: J.C.B.Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1992.

Schwartz, S. Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. Jews, Christians, and

Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University

Press, 2001.