British Baptist Scholars 11: Christine E. Joynes

The return of Elijah : an exploration of the character and context of the relationship between Elijah, John the Baptist and Jesus in the Gospels (DPhil, Oxford, 1998)

Director, Centre for Reception History of the Bible, University of Oxford (2002-)

Tutorial Fellow in Theology, Regent's Park College, Oxford (2018-)

 

Publications

___ 'A Question of Identity: 'Who do People Say I Am?' Elijah, John the Baptist and Jesus in Mark's Gospel' in Understanding, Studying and Reading: New Testament Essays in Honour of John Ashton edited by Christopher Rowland and Crispin Fletcher-Louis (Sheffield, 1998)

___ 'The returned Elijah? John the Baptist's angelic identity in the Gospel of Mark', Scottish Journal of Theology (2005)

___ (ed.), Perspectives on the Passion: encountering the Bible through the Arts (T & T Clark, 2007)

___ 'Introduction' in Perspectives on the Passion: encountering the Bible through the Arts (T & T Clark, 2007)

___ (ed.) with Christopher Rowland, From the Margins 2 : Women of the New Testament and Their Afterlives (Sheffield Phoenix, 2009)

___ 'Wombs and Tombs: The Reception History of Mark 16.1-20' in From the Margins 2 (Sheffield Phoenix, 2009)

___ 'Visualizing Salome’s Dance of Death: The Contribution of Art to Biblical Exegesis' in Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue edited by J. Cheryl Exum and Ela Nutu (Society of Biblical Literature, 2010)

___ 'The Sound of Silence: Interpreting Mark 16:1–8 through the Centuries', Interpretation 65.1 (2011)

___ 'Still at the Margins?: Gospel Women and their Afterlives' in Radical Christian Voices and Practice: Essays in Honour of Christopher Rowland (Oxford, 2012)

 

___ 'A Place for Pushy Mothers? Visualizations of Christ Blessing the Children' in Biblical Reception 2 edited by J. Cheryl Exum and David Clines (T & T Clark, 2013)

 

___ 'Changing Horizons: Reflections on a Decade at Oxford University’s Centre for Reception History of the Bible', Journal of the Bible and its Reception (2014)

 

___ 'The Reception of the Bible and its Significance' in Scripture and its Interpretation: A Global, Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible edited by Michael Gorman (Baker, 2017)

 

___ 'Re-visioning Women in Mark's Gospel through Art' in Biblical Reception 5 edited by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (T & T Clark, 2018)

 

___ 'Reception History of the Gospels' in The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels edited by Stephen Barton (2nd Ed., Cambridge, 2021)

 

___ 'Picturing the Parable of the Sower' in The Art of the Biblical Interpretation: Visual Portrayals of Scriptural Narratives edited by Heidi J. Hornik et al (Society of Biblical Literature, 2021)

 

___ 'John Clifford, Edward Burne-Jones and the Service of Art to Religion', Baptist Quarterly 55.4 (2023)

 

___ 'Baptists and the Bible in the Nineteenth Century', Baptist Quarterly 55.3 (2024)

 

___ 'Optical Allusions? Exploring the Ambiguity of Biblical Texts in Modern and Contemporary Art' in Theology, Modernity and the Visual Arts edited by Ben Quash and Chloë Reddaway (2024)

 

___ ' 'My name is Legion!' Biblical exegesis, embodiment and the visual arts' in T & T Clark Handbook of Theology and the Arts edited by Stephen M. Garrett and Imogen Atkins (T & T Clark, 2025)