Academics

Welcome

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Research Interests

A few key recent publications (published or in press) are listed below. I welcome applications for doctoral supervision in these or related areas, as well as in early Christian eschatology.

2008     Scripture’s Doctrine and Theology’s Bible: How the New Testament Shapes Christian Dogmatics. Ed. M. Bockmuehl & A. J. Torrance.  Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.  C. 240pp

2008     ‘Has the New Testament a Doctrine of the Church?’ in Scripture’s Doctrine (above).

2008     ‘God’s Life as a Jew: The Identity of Jesus Christ in the Context of Judaism’ in R.B. Hays & B.R. Gaventa (eds.), Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans)

2008     ‘Abraham’s Faith in Hebrews 11.’ In The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology, ed. R. J. Bauckham, D. R. Driver, T. A. Hart and N. MacDonald (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans).

2007     Redemption and Resistance. Ed. M. Bockmuehl & J. Carleton Paget. London/New   York: T&T Clark Pp. xxviii + 381

2007      ‘Messianic Resistance in the Jesus Tradition.’ In Redemption and Resistance (above), 65-77.

2007     ‘Peter Between Paul and Jesus: The Third Quest and the New Perspective on the First Disciple.’ In Jesus and Paul Reconnected: Fresh Pathways to an Old Debate, 67-102. Ed. T.D. Still. Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Eerdmans.

2007     ‘New Testament Wirkungsgeschichte and the Early Christian Appeal to Living Memory.’ In Memory in the Bible and Antiquity: The Fifth Durham - Tübingen Research Symposium (Durham, September 2004), 341-68. Ed. S.C. Barton et al. WUNT 212. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

2007     ‘Peter’s Death in Rome? Back to Front and Upside Down.’ Scottish Journal of Theology 60: 1-23

2006     Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament Study.  Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.  Pp. 297.

2005     The Written Gospel. Ed. M. Bockmuehl & D. A. Hagner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xxvi+360.

2005     ‘The Making of Gospel Commentaries.’ In The Written Gospel (see above), 274-95

2005     ‘Simon Peter and Bethsaida.’ In The Missions of James, Peter, and Paul: Tensions in Early Christianity, 53-91. Ed. B. Chilton & C.A. Evans. NovTSup 115. Leiden etc.: Brill.

2004     ‘Simon Peter’s Names in Jewish Sources.’ Journal of Jewish Studies 55 (2004) 58-80.

2003     ‘Syrian Memories of Peter: Ignatius, Justin, and Serapion.’ In The Image of the Judaeo-Christians in Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature: Papers Delivered at the Colloquium of the Institutum Judaicum, Brussels 18-19 November, 2001, 124-46. Ed. P.J. Tomson & D. Lambers-Petry. WUNT 158. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

2003     ‘1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 and the Church in Jerusalem.’ In M.D. Hooker (ed.), Not in the Word Alone: The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, 55-87. SMBen Biblical-Ecumenical Section 15. Rome: "Benedictina" Pub. St. Paul's Abbey. [Previously published in Tyndale Bulletin 52 (2001) 1-31]

2001     The Cambridge Companion to Jesus. Ed. M. Bockmuehl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xviii+311.

2001     ‘Resurrection.’ In The Cambridge Companion to Jesus (see 1.2 above), 102-18.

2001     ‘1QS and Salvation at Qumran.’ In Justification and Variegated Nomism, vol. 1: The Complexities of Second Temple Judaism, 381-414. Ed. D. A. Carson et al. WUNT 2:140. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck; Grand Rapids: Baker.

2000     Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics. Edinburgh: T&T Clark. Pp. xv+314.   US/pbk. edn. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003.

1998     The Epistle to the Philippians. Black’s New Testament Commentaries. Peabody: Hendrickson. Pp. xxiii+327

Academic Biography

• Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies: University of Oxford (2007 - present)
• Professor, University of St Andrews (2006 - 2007)
• Professor, University of Cambridge (1989 - 2006)
• Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, Regent College, Vancouver, Canada (1988 - 1989)
• Sessional Lecturer in Hebrew, University of British Columbia (1988 - 1989)
• Research Assistant in Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions, University of Cambridge (1987 - 1988)