Books
A Redaction History of Jeremiah 2:1-4:2 (out of print)
Polyphony and Symphony in Prophetic Literature: Rereading Jeremiah 7-20
Missing the Mark: Sin and its Consequences in Biblical Theology
A Time to Laugh: Humor in the Bible
The Story of Israel’s Ancestors: Living Toward a Promise
Articles in Journals and Collected Works
“The Literary Frame Surrounding Jeremiah 30:1-33:26,” Zeitschrift für Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (= ZAW) 100 (1988): 409-413.
“The ‘Endangered Ancestress’ and Blessing for the Nations,” Journal of Biblical Literature (=JBL) 109 (1990): 599-611.
“Christian Interpretation of the Old Testament: A Methodological Problem,” Faculty Studies (Carson Newman College) 1990: 27-43.
“The Figure of Lady Jerusalem: Identification, Deification and Personification of Cities in the Ancient Near East,” in The Canon in Comparative Perspective, Scripture in Context IV, B. Batto, W. Hallo, and L. Younger, eds. Lewiston: New York: Mellen Press, 1991. Pp. 173-194.
“Bible Study Guide: The Book of Micah,” Pulpit Digest 73/517 (1992): 77-81.
“The City of Chaos and the New Jerusalem: Isaiah 24-27 in Context,” Perspectives in Religious Studies 22 (1995): 5-12.
“Amos: Introduction,” in Interpreting Amos for Teaching and Preaching. Macon: Smyth and Helwys, 1996.
“Lady Zion’s Alter Egos: Isaiah 47:1-15 and 57:6-13 as Structural Counterparts,” in New Visions of the Book of Isaiah, JSOTSup 214, R. Melugin and M. Sweeney, eds. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1997. Pp. 124-139.
“Laboratory for Learning: Promoting Community Learning Across Curricular and Co-Curricular Functions,” (with E. Lee and W. McDonald) in Who Teaches? Who Learns? Authentic Student/Faculty Partners, R. Jenkins and K. Romer, eds. Providence, RI: Ivy Publishers, 1998. Pp. 69-76.
“Literary Structures in the Book of Joshua,” RevExp 95 (1998): 189-202.
“‘Israel’ and ‘Jacob’ in the Book of Micah: Micah in the Context of the Twelve,” in Society of Biblical Literature 1998 Seminar Papers Part Two. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1998. Pp. 850-871.
Sermon ideas/summaries on select texts in Genesis for the 2001 edition of Abingdon’s Ministers Manual.
“Ancestral Motifs In 1 Samuel 25: Intertextuality and Characterization,” JBL 121 (2002): 617-638.
“Contingency, God, and the Babylonians: Jeremiah on the Complexity of Repentance,” RevExp 101 (2004): 247-65.
“A Word About Separation of Church and State,” RevExp 101 (2004): 583-586.
“Genesis 3: Sin, Shame and Self-Esteem,” RevExp 103 (2006): 359-370.
“Obadiah-Jonah-Micah in Canonical Context: The Nature of Prophetic Literature and Hermeneutics,” Interpretation 61 (2007): 154-166.
“Song of Songs: A Brief Annotated Bibliography,” RevExp 105 (2008): 481-490.
“Teaching Isaiah Today,” PRS 36 (2009): 257-272.
“The Biblical Prohibition Against Usury,” Int 65 (2011): 117-127.
“Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25,” Lectionary Homiletics 22/6 (Oct/Nov 2011): 41-42.
“Judges 4:1-7,” Lectionary Homiletics 22/6 (Oct/Nov 2011): 49-50.
“Dominion Returns to Jerusalem: An Examination of Developments in the Kingship and Zion Traditions as Reflected in the Book of the Twelve with Particular Attention to Micah 4-5,” in Perspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve: Methodological Foundations, Redactional Processes, Historical Insights, BZAW 433. R. Albertz, J. Wöhrle, and J. Nogalski, eds.; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012. Pp. 253-267.
“The Redaction of Jeremiah 39-41 [46-48 LXX]: A Prophetic Endorsement of Nehemiah?” ZAW 126 (2014): 228-242.
“Faithful in Small Matters: Jeremiah 35,” in RevExp 112 (2015): 316-319.
“Sinners Only?: Amos 9:8-10 and the Problem of Targeted Justice in Amos,” PRS 43 (2016): 161-175.
“Who Are My Parents? ‘You will not Bear False Witness,” Deuteronomy, and Mark,” RevExp 113 (2016): 513-523.
(with Melissa A. Jackson), “Rahab and Her Visitors: Reciprocal Deliverance,” Word and World 37 (2017): 226-233.
“The (Re-)Establishment of Order: Disorder in the Priestly Understanding and in the Teaching and Acts of Jesus,” RevExp 114 (2017): 166-175.
Dictionary Articles
“Jeremiah: Content and Structure,” in Oxford Handbook of the Book of Jeremiah, Louis Stulman and Ed Silver, eds. Oxford: Oxford (forthcoming).
“Murder,” in The Mercer Dictionary of the Bible, Watson E. Mills, ed. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1990.
“Redaction Criticism: Hebrew Bible,” in Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, John H. Hayes, ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999. Pp. 373-376.
“Jeremiah, Letter of Jeremiah, Baruch,” Oxford Annotated Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
“Execration,” “Flesh in the OT,” “Humor” and “Perish” in New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 5 vols., K. D. Sakenfeld, et al, eds. Nashville: Abingdon, 2006-2009.
“Sin,” in Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic (2009).
“Deposit and Pledge,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Bible and Law (NY: Oxford, 2013).
Translations
Jenni and C. Westermann, eds. Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament, 3 vols. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson. 1997 (= Theologisches Handwörterbuch zum Alten Testament, 2 vols. Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 1984).
Gunkel. Genesis, Mercer Library of Biblical Studies. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1997.
Wellhausen. The Pharisees and the Sadducees. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2001 (= Die Pharisäer und die Sadducäer: Eine Untersuchung zur inneren jüdischen Geschichte, 3rd ed. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1967).
Hengel and R. Hahnhart. The Septuagint: Between Judaism and Christianity. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2002 (= Die Septuaginta: Zwischen Judentum und Christentum, M. Hengel and A. Schwemer, eds. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1994).
Kaiser. The Old Testament Apocrypha: An Introduction to the Fundamentals. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004 (= Die alttestamentlichen Apokryphen: Eine Einleitung in Grundzügen [Gütersloh: Chr. Kaiser, 2000]).
Contributing translator to Religion, Past and Present (= Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, E. J. Brill), Brill: 2007ff.
Hauger, “’But We Were in the Wilderness, and There God Speaks Quite Differently’: On the Significance of Preaching in the Theology and Work of Gerhard von Rad” in Int 62 (2008): 278-292.
Gerhard von Rad, “Sermon on Luke 24:13-35” in Int 62 (2008): 294-303.
H. Spieckermann and R. Feldmeier, God of the Living (Waco: Baylor, 2011).
Andreas Schüle, Die Urgeschichte (forthcoming).
Silvia Schroer and Thomas Staubli, “Bodily and Embodied: Being Human in the Tradition of the Hebrew Bible,” in Int 67 (2013): 5-19.
S. Mowinckel, Psalm Studies, 2 vols. (History of Biblical Studies 3; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2014).
Udo Schnelle, “The Kerygma of the Hellenistic Church Aside from Paul,” in Beyond Bultmann: Reckoning a New Testament Theology (Bruce Longenecker and Mikeal Parsons, eds. Waco: Baylor, 2014).
Jörg Frey, “Johannine Christology and Eschatology,” in Beyond Bultmann.
Angela Standhartinger, “Bultmann’s Theology of the New Testament in Context,” in Beyond Bultmann.
Holger Gzella, ed. The Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, vol. 16: Aramaic Dictionary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018 = Das Theologisches Wörterbuch des Alten Testamentes 16).
Joachim Krause, The Conditions of the Covenant (forthcoming)
Book Reviews
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