andygoodliff

British Baptist Biblical Scholars 12: Helen Paynter

Director, Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, Bristol Baptist College

 

Publications

___ Reduced Laughter: Seriocomic Features and their Functions in the Book of Kings (Brill, 2016)

___ 'Ahab: Heedless Father, Sullen Son: Humour and Intertextuality in 1 Kings 21', Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 2017 vol. 41(4): 451-474.

___ Immigration and the Church: Reflecting faithfully in our generation (Grove, 2017)

___ ‘Revenge for my Two Eyes’: Talion and Mimesis in the Samson narrative', Biblical Interpretation, 2018 vol. 26: 133-157.

___ 'Participation and goal: Creation and the church’ in Rhythms of Faithfulness: Essays in Honor of John Colwell edited by Andy Goodliff and Paul Goodliff (Pickwick, 2018)

___ ‘Make yourself at home’: Tensions and Paradoxes of hospitality in dialogue with the Bible', Bible and Critical Theory, 2018 vol 14(1):42-61.

___ Dead and Buried: Attending to the voice of the victim in the Old Testament and today: Towards an ethical reading of the Old Testament texts of violence. Oxford: Regents Park College, Whitley Publications, 2018

___ The Strange World of Elijah and Elisha (Grove, 2019)

___ God of violence yesterday, God of love today? Wrestling honestly with the Old Testament. BRF, 2019.

___ 'The Gadarene swine and the conquest of Jericho: an intertextual reading',Pacific Journal of Theological Research, 2019 vol. 14(2): 13-24.

___ 'Porous Borders and Textual Ambiguity: Why ancient Israel is no model for modern nationalism', Journal of European Baptist Studies, 2020 vol.20(1): 117-130.

___ The Bible Doesn’t Tell Me So: Why you don’t have to submit to domestic abuse and coercive control. BRF, 2020

___ 'Towards a Thick Description of Biblical Violence’ in Bible and Violence: A Thick Description edited by Helen Paynter and M. Spalione (Sheffield Phoenix, 2020)

___ Telling Terror in Judges 19: Rape and Reparation for the Levite’s Wife (Routledge, 2020)

___ 'Who is the Wife Whose Virtue is Tested in Numbers 5?' in Attending to the Margins: Essays in Honour of Stephen Finamore edited by Helen Paynter and Petter Hatton (Oxford Centre for Baptist Studies, 2022)

___ ‘Redeeming the Prostitute? Babylon and her fate in Revelation.’ In Violent Biblical Texts: New Perspectives edited by Trevor Laurence and Helen Paynter (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022).

___ ‘Land, Seed and Promise. Jacob as Mise en Abyme to Israel.’ In Trevor Laurence and Helen Paynter (eds),Violent Biblical Texts: New Perspectives edited by Trevor Laurence and Helen Paynter (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022)

___ ‘Apologists and Appropriators: Protestant Christian reckoning with biblical violence.’ In Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts edited by Maria Power and Helen Paynter (Palgrave McMillan, 2022)

___ ‘Erasing the troubling teens? What happens to the conquest of Canaan when the non-Deuteronomistic biblical writers tell the story?’ In Map or Compass?: The Bible on Violence edited by Michael Spalione and Helen Paynter (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022)

___ 'That the Next Generation Might Remember: The Conquest of Canaan in Israel’s Collective Memory and in the Psalms', Journal of Baptist Theology in Context 8 (March 2023)

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 & Director of the Centre for Baptist Studies, Regent's Park College (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)

British Baptist Biblical Scholars (10) Sean F. Winter

DPhil (Oxford, 1997, supervised by N. T. Wright): “‘Worthy of the Gospel of Christ’: The Situation and Strategy of Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians”

Tutor in New Testament, Northern Baptist College (2000-2008)

Associate Professor in New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College (2009-)

 

Publications

More Light and Truth? Biblical Interpretation in Covenantal Perspective. The 2007 Whitley Lecture (Whitley, 2007)

'Ambiguous Genitives, Pauline Baptism and Roman Insulae: Resources from Romans to Support Pushing at the Boundaries of Unity' in A. R. Cross and P. E. Thompson (eds.), Baptist Sacramentalism 2 (Paternoster, 2008), 77-91.

“The Rhetorical Function of John’s Portrayal of the Jewish Law" in  Torah in the New Testament edited by P. Oakes and M. Tait (T & T Clark, 2009)

‘Ambassadors for Christ’ (2 Corinthians 5.20): Ministry in the New Creation' in Questions of Identity: Studies in Honour of Brian Haymes edited by Anthony R. Cross and R. Gouldbourne (Regent's Park College, 2011)

'Reading with Friends: Persuasive Testimony in Baptist Interpretative Communities' in The 'Plainly Revealed' Word of God: Baptist Hermeneutics in Theory and Practice edited by Simon P. Woodman and Helen Dare (Mercer, 2011)

'"A Daring Synagogue Sermon?": Paul's Preaching in 2 Corinthians 3.7–18' in Delivering the Word: Preaching and Exegesis in the Western Christian Tradition edited by William J. Lyons and Isabella Sandwell (Equinox, 2011)

'Word and World: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Biblical Interpretation Today', Pacifica 25.2 (2012)

‘Paul’s “Grace” Language in 2 Corinthians’ in Immense, Unfathomed, Unconfined: The Grace of God in Creation, Church and Community: Essays in Honour of Norman Young edited by Sean Winter (Melbourne: Uniting Academic Press, 2013)

'Paul's Atttitude to the Gentiles' in Attitudes to Gentiles in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity edited by David Sim and James McLaren (T & T Clark, 2013)

'"Present-ing the Word": The Use and Abuse of Bonhoeffer on the Bible’, The Bonhoeffer Legacy: Australasian Journal of Bonhoeffer Studies 2.2 (2014), 19–35.

‘"Obedient to Death”: Revisiting the Rhetorical Function of Philippians 2:6–11’, Australian Biblical Review 63 (2015)

'Journey and rest: Hebrews, pilgrimage, and the work of theological education', Pacifica 28.2 (June 2015), 192-207.

'Friendship Traditions in the New Testament: An Overview', Pacifica 29 (2016): 192–204. 

'"With Him I Believe": Keith Clements on Dietrich Bonhoeffer as Patriot and Ecumenist', Bonhoeffer Legacy (2017)

'Listening for the Word of God: Divine Speech, Scripture, and the Task of Interpretation' in Rhythms of Faithfulness: Essays in Honor of John E. Colwell edited by Andy Goodliff and Paul Goodliff (Pickwick, 2018)

'God Revealed and Hidden: Barth's Exegesis of Romans 11:33–36', Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review, 50.1 (2018): 46-58.

'Paul's Ethics and Paul's Experience: Law and love in Galatians' in Biblical Ethics: Tensions Between Justice and Mercy, Law and Love (Gorgias, Piscataway, 2019), 251-71.

'Suffering, Salvation, and Solidarity in 2 Corinthians 1:3–11' in Suffering in Paul: Perspectives and Implications (Pickwick, 2019), 64-81.

‘He Will Rescue Us Again’: Affliction and Hope in 2 Corinthians 1:8–11', Religions (2020)

'Beyond the Household: The Emergence of Translocal Ministry in the New Testament' in Episkope: The Theory and Practice of Translocal Oversight (SCM, 2020), 3-13.

'N. T. (Tom) Wright (1948–)' in Twentieth Century Anglican Theologians (Wiley Blackwell, 2020), 206-16.

'The Letter, the spirit, and the Letter Again: Reflections on 2 Corinthians 3 and the Work of Biblical Interpretation' in Re-Membering the Body: The Witness of History, Theology, and the Arts in Honour of Ruth M. B. Gouldbourne edited by Anthony R. Cross and Brian Haymes (Pickwick, 2021)

'Re-visioning (the) Love/Command: Law, Authority, and the Logic of Love in the Philosophy of Pamela Sue Anderson and Paul’s Letter to the Galatians' in Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love (Routledge, 2021), 158-67.

'The "Sending of the Son" Formula in Paul, John, and the Historical Jesus' in Many Believed Because of Her Testimony: Essays Celebrating the Scholarship and Service of Dorothy Lee edited by Robert A. Derrenbacker Jr. et al (Wipf & Stock, 2023)

British Baptist Biblical Scholars (8) Marie E. Isaacs

Regent's Park College (1960-1962)

DPhil (Oxford, 1972)

 

Chaplain, University of Birmingham (1962-1968)

Doctoral Studies, St. Hugh's, Oxford (1969-1972). Supervised by Morna Hooker

Tutor, Heythrop College (1973-2001)

Minister, Heath Street Baptist Church (1987-2011)

See here for some reflections on the 50th anniversary of her ordination as a Baptist minister in 2013. Marie was the fifth woman to be ordained in the Baptist Union.

 

Publications

'Mary in the Lucan Infancy Narrative', The Way 25 (1975): 80-95.

The Concept of Spirit:A Study of Pneuma in Hellenistic Judaism and its bearing on the New Testament (1976)

'The Prophetic Spirit in the Fourth Gospel', Heythrop Journal 24.4 (1983)

Sacred Space: An Approach to the Theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews (Sheffield Academic Press, 1992)

'Hebrews' in John Barclay and John Sweet (eds.), Early Christian Thought in its Jewish Context. Festschrift in Honour of Morna Hooker's 65th Birthday (Cambridge, 1996)

'Priesthood and the Epistle to the Hebrews', Heythrop Journal 38.1 (1997)

'Hebrews 13.9-16 Revisited', New Testament Studies 43.2 (1997)

'Suffering in the Lives of Christians: James 1:2-19A', Review & Expositor 97.2 (2000)

Why Bother with Hebrews?', Heythrop Journal 43.1 (2002)

Reading Hebrews and James: A Literary and Theological Commentary (Smyth & Helwys, 2002)

'Hebrews' in Mills and Wilson (eds.), Mercer Commentary on the New Testament (Mercer, 2003)

British Baptist Biblical Scholars (7) Rex Mason

1926-

PhD (London, 1976); supervised by Peter Ackroyd; DD (Oxford)

Tutor in Old Testament, Spurgeon's College (1965-1975)
Senior Tutor, Regent's Park College, Oxford (1975-1991)
Lecturer in Old Testament, University of Oxford (1981-1993)

Major Publications

'The Relation of Zech 9—14 to Proto-Zechariah', Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 88.2 (1976)

'The Purpose of the "Editorial Framework" of the Book of Haggai', Vests Testamentum 27.4 (October 1977)

The Books of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi (Cambridge, 1977)

'The Prophets of the Restoration' in Richard Coggins et al (eds.), Israel's Prophetic Tradition: Essays in Honor of Peter R. Ackroyd (Cambridge, 1982)

'Some Echoes of the Preaching in the Second Temple? Tradition Elements in Zechariah 1—8', Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 96.2 (1984)

'The Treatment of Earlier Biblical Themes in the Book of Daniel' in James L. Crenshaw (ed.), Perspectives on the Hebrew Bible: Essays in Honor Walter J. Harrelson (Mercer, 1988)

Preaching the Tradition: Homily and Hermeneutics After the Exile (Cambridge, 1990)

Micah, Nahum and Obadiah (Sheffield, 1991)

Old Testament Pictures of God (Smyth & Helwys, 1993)

Zephaniah, Habakkuk, Joel (JSOT, 1994)

Propaganda and Subversion in the Old Testament (SPCK, 1997)

'The Messiah in the Postexilic Old Testament Literature' in John Day (ed.), King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East (Sheffield, 1998)

'H. Wheeler Robinson Revisited', Baptist Quarterly 37.5 (1998)

'Ronald Ernest Clements: An Appreciation' in Edward Ball (ed.), In Search of True Wisdom: Essays in Old Testament Interpretation in Honour of Ronald E. Clements (Sheffield, 1999)

Jeremiah: A Bible Commentary for Every Day (Bible Reading Fellowship, 2002)

'The Use of Earlier Biblical Material in Zechariah 9-14: A Study in Inner Biblical Exegesis' in Mark Boda et al (eds.), Bringing Out the Treasure: Inner Biblical Illusion in Zechariah 9-14 (Sheffield, 2003)

'Why is Zechariah Full of Quotations' in Christopher Tuckett (ed.), The Book of Zechariah and its Influence (Ashgate, 2003)

'Hermeneutics: The Interface between Critical Scholarship and the Faith of the Community' in Helen Dare and Simon Woodman (eds.), The "Plainly Revealed" Word of God? Baptist Hermeneutics in Theory and Practice (Mercer, 2011)

British Baptist Biblical Scholars (6) R. Alistair Campbell

PhD (supervised by Graham Stanton / London, 1993)

Tutor in New Testament, Spurgeon's College (1989-2000)

Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the United Theological College of the West Indies in Jamaica (2003-2006)

Publications

'The Grounds of Association.' in David Slater (ed.) A Perspective on Baptist Identity (Mainstream, 1987), 7-14

'Essential Aspects of the Church in the Bible', Evangelical Review of Theology 3 (1989)

'Does Paul Acquiesce in Divisions at the Lord's Supper?', Novum Testamentum 33.1 (1991)

'Do the Work of an Evangelist', Evangelical Quarterly 64 (1992)

'The Elders of the Jerusalem Church', Journal of Theological Studies 44 (1993)

The Elders: Seniority within Earliest Christianity (T & T Clark, 1994)

'Identifying the Faithful Sayings in the Pastoral Epistles', Journal for the Study of the New Testament 16 (October 1994) 

'Κα μλιστα ο κεων–A New Look at 1 Timothy 5.8', New Testament Studies 41.1 (1995)

'Jesus and his Baptism', Tyndale Bulletin 47.2 (November 1996)

'Once More: Is Worship ‘Biblical’?', The Churchman 110.2 (1996)

'Against such things there is no law'? Galatians 5:23b again', Expository Times 107 (1996) 

'Baptism and Resurrection (1 Cor 15.29)', Australian Biblical Review 47 (1999), 43-52

'Dying with Christ: The Origins of a Metaphor?' in Stanley E. Porter and Anthony R. Cross (eds.), Baptism, the New Testament and the Church: Historical and Contemporary Studies in Honour of R. E. O. White (Sheffield Academic Press, 1999)

The Story We Live by: A Reader's Guide to the New Testament (Bible Reading Fellowship, 2004)

'Book Review: House Church and the Mission: The Importance of Household Structures in Early Christianity by Roger W. Gehring', Journal of Theological Studies 58.2 (2007), 666-671

'Triumph and delay: the interpretation of Revelation 19:11-20:10', Evangelical Quarterly (January 2008)

'New birth from Water and Spirit’ in Pieter J. Lalleman (ed.), Challenging to Change: Dialoguse with a Radical Baptist Theologian: Essays Presented to Nigel G. Wright on his sixtieth birthday (Spurgeon's College, 2009)

Born Again: What Did Jesus Mean? (Grove Books, 2013)

British Baptist Biblical Scholars (5) Simon Woodman

MLitt (Bristol), PhD (University of Cardiff)

Tutor in Biblical Studies, South Wales Baptist College (2004-2012)
Minister, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, London (2012-)

Publications

'A Biblical Basis for Affirming Women in Ministry', Baptist Minister's Journal 296 & 297 (2006-2007)

The Book of Revelation. SCM Core Text (SCM, 2007)

'The Plain and Literal Meaning of the Text: A Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist Perspective on Revelation 20.1-7' in William John Lyons and Jorunn Okland (eds.), The Way the World Ends? The Apocalypse of John in Culture and Ideology (Sheffield Phoenix, 2009)

'"An alien in the land": A summary of Singing the Ethos of God by Brian Brock', European Journal of Theology 18.2 (2009)

'Can the Book of Revelation be a Gospel for the Environment?' in Matthew J. M. Coomber (eds.) Bible and Justice: Ancient Texts, Modern Challenges (Equinox, 2011)

'Turn or Burn!: A Nonviolent Reading of Fire and Burning in the Book of Revelation' in Anthony R. Cross and Ruth Gouldbourne (eds.), Questions of Identity: Essays in Honour of Brian Haymes (Regent's Park College, 2011)  

'Stoned in the Pulpit: The Controversial Preaching of Hanserd Knollys' in William John Lyons and Isabella Sandwell (eds.), Delivering the Word: Preaching and Exegesis in the Western Christian Tradition (Equinox, 2011)

(ed.) with Karen E. Smith, Prayers of the People (Regent's Park College, 2011)

(ed.) with Helen Dare, 'The 'Plainly Revealed' Word of God? Baptist Hermeneutics in Theory and Practice (Mercer, 2011)

'The Dissenting Voice: Journeying together towards a Baptist hermeneutic' in S. Woodman and H. Dare (eds), 'The 'Plainly Revealed' Word of God? Baptist Hermeneutics in Theory and Practice (Mercer, 2011)

The Story of Women In Ministry in the Baptist Union of Great Britain (Baptist Union, 2011)

'The Evolving Agenda of Biblical Studies?' in Stephen Finamore and John Weaver (eds.), Wisdom, Science and the Scriptures: Essays in Honour of Ernest Lucas (Centre for Baptist History and Heritage and Bristol Baptist College, 2012) 

British Baptist Scholars (4) Ralph P. Martin

4 August 1925 - 25 February 2013

Trained for Baptist ministry at Manchester

PhD King's College London, 1963

1959-1965 Tutor in New Testament, London Bible College
1965-1969 Lecturer in New Testament, University of Manchester
1969-1988 Professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary
1988-1995 Professor, Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield

Selected Publications

The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, Eerdmans 1959, 1987)

Worship in the Early Church (Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1964, 1974)

Carmen Christi: Philippians 2.5-11 in Recent Interpretation and in the Setting of Early Christian Worship (Cambridge, 1967, 1983, 1997)

Mark: Evangelist and Theologian (Paternoster, 1972)

New Testament Foundations (2 Vol., Eerdmans, 1978, 1994)

The Family and the Fellowship: New Testament Images of the Church (Paternoster, 1979) 

Reconciliation (John Knox, 1981)

The Worship of God: Some Theological, Pastoral and Practical Reflections (Eerdmans, 1982)

2 Corinthians (Word Biblical Commentary, 1987)

James (World Biblical Commentary, 1988)

Ephesians, Colossians and Philemon (Interpretation Bible Commentaries, 1991)

(ed.) with Gerald Hawthrone and Daniel Reid, Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (IVP, 1993)

with Andrew Lincoln, The Theology of the Letters of James, Peter and Jude (Cambridge, 1994) [Martin wrote the sections on Peter and Jude]

(ed.) with Peter Davids, Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its Development (IVP, 1997)

British Baptist Scholars (3) Ernest C. Lucas

Akkadian prophecies, omens and myths as background for Daniel chapters 7-12 (Ph.D)—University of Liverpool, 1989

1986-1994 Education Director, Institute for Contemporary Christianity

1994-2012 Tutor in Biblical Studies, Bristol Baptist College

2010- Research Fellow, University of Bristol

Publications

'The Origin of Daniel's Four Empires Scheme Re-examined', Tyndale Bulletin 40.2 (1989)

Science and the New Age Challenge (Apollos, 1996)

(ed.), Christian healing: what can we believe? (Lynx, 1997)

'Science, Wisdom, Eschatology and the Cosmic Christ' in K. E.  Brower and M. K. Elliot (eds.), The Reader Must Understand: Eschatology in Bible and Theology (Apollos, 1997)

'The New Testament teaching on the environment', Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 16.3 (July 1999)

Decoding Daniel: Reclaiming the Visions of Daniel 7-11 (Grove Books, 2000)

Can we believe Genesis today?: the Bible and the questions of science (IVP, 2001)

Daniel. Apollos Old Testament Commentary (Apollos, 2002)

Exploring the Old Testament: The Psalms and wisdom literature (SPCK, 2003)

Ezekiel: A Bible Commentary for Every Day (Bible Reading Fellowship, 2003)

'A Statue, a Fiery Furnace and a Dismal Swamp: A Reflection on Some Issues in Biblical Hermeneutics', Evangelical Quarterly 77.4 (2005)

'Science and the Bible: Are They Incompatible?', Science and Christian Belief 17 (2005)

'Daniel' in Kevin Vanhoozer et al (eds.), Theological Interpretation of the Old Testament (Baker, 2008)

'Wisdom Theology' in T. Longman III and P. Enns (eds.), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry and Writings (IVP, 2008)

with Michael Pfunder, Think God, Think Science: Conversations on Life, the Universe and Faith (Paternoster, 2009)

'Daniel, Book of' in M.J. Boda and J.G. McConville (eds.), Dictionary of Old Testament Prophets (IVP, 2012)

Proverbs (Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary; Eerdmans, 2015)

British Baptist Biblical Scholars (2) Ronald E. Clements

1929-

BD (London, 1954)
BA (Cambridge, 1956)
PhD (Sheffield, 1961, supervised by F. F. Bruce) - 'The Divine Dwelling Place in the Old Testament'
DD (Cambridge, 1979)

1960-1967 Assistant Lecturer in Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology, University of Edinburgh
1967-1984 Lecturer in Old Testament, University of Cambridge
1984-1992 Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament, King's College London

Foreign Secretary of the Society of Old Testament (1973-83)
President, Society of Old Testament (1985)
Festschrift — In Search of True Wisdom: Essays in Old Testament Interpretation in Honour of Ronald E. Clements edited by Edward Ball (Sheffield, 1999)
Burkitt Medal, British Academy (2013)

 

Publications

God and temple (Basil Blackwell, 1965)

Prophecy and covenant (SCM, 1965)

'The Relation of Children to the People of God in the Old Testament', Baptist Quarterly 21.5 (January 1967)

Abraham and David: Genesis XV and its meaning for Israelite tradition (SCM, 1967)

The Conscience of the Nation: A study of early Israelite prophecy (Oxford, 1967)

God's Chosen People: A Theological Interpretation of the Book of Deuteronomy (SCM, 1968)

'The Spirit of God in the Old Testament', Fraternal 161 (July 1971): 4-9.

Exodus (Cambridge, 1972)

Prophecy and Tradition (Blackwell, 1975)

'Covenant and Canon in the Old Testament' in Creation, Christ, and Culture: Studies in Honour of T. F. Torrance edited by R .W. A. McKinney (T & T Clark, 1976)

A Century of Old Testament study (Lutterworth, 1976, rev ed. 1983)

'Patterns in the Prophetic Canon' in Canon and Authority: Essays in Old Testament Religion and Theology edited by George W. Coats and Burke O. Long (Fortress, 1977)

Old Testament Theology: A Fresh Approach (Marshall Morgan & Scott, 1978)

Isaiah and the Deliverance of Jerusalem: A study of the interpretation of prophecy in the Old Testament (JSOT, 1980)

Isaiah 1-39 (Marshall Morgan & Scott, 1980)

'"A Remnant Chosen by Grace" (Romans 11.5): The Old Testament Background and Origin of the Remnant Concept', in Pauline Studies: Essays Presented to Professor F. F. Bruce on His 70th Birthday edited by Donald A. Hagner and Murray J. Harris (Paternoster, 1980)

'The Unity of the Book of Isaiah', Interpretation 36 (1982)

'The Ezekiel Tradition: Prophecy in a Time of Crisis' in Israel's Prophetic Tradition: Essays in Honour of P. R. Ackroyd edited by R. J. Coggins et al (Cambridge, 1982)

In Spirit and Truth: Insights from Biblical Prayers (John Knox Press, 1985)

'Isaiah 45.20-25: The Goal of Faith', Interpretation 40 (1986)

Jeremiah (Interpretation; John Knox Press, 1988)

'Patterns in the Prophetic Canon: Healing the Blind and the Lame' in Canon, Theology and Old Testament Interpretation edited by G. M. Tucker et al (Fortress, 1988)

'Solomon and the Origins of Wisdom in Israel' in Perspectives on the Hebrew Bible: Essays in Honor of Walter J. Harrelson edited by James L. Crenshaw (ed.), (Mercer, 1988)

'The Interpretation of Prophecy and the Origins of Apocalyptic' in Bible, Church, and World: Essays in Honour of D. S. Russell (Baptist Historical Society, 1989)

Deuteronomy (JSOT, 1989)

Wisdom for a Changing World: Wisdom in Old Testament Theology (1990)

(ed.), The World of Ancient Israel: Sociological, Anthropological and Political Perspectives (Cambridge, 1989)

'Amos and the Politics of Israel' in Storia e Tradixioni di Israele: Scritti in Onore di J. Alberto Soggin edited by D. Garrone and F. Israel (Paideia Editrice, 1991)

Wisdom in Theology The 1989 Didsbury Lectures (Paternoster, 1992)

'Old Testament Study Today: Some Current Concerns', Baptist Ministers' Journal 240 (Oct. 1992): 11-13

'Jeremiah 1-25 and the Deuteronomistic History' in Understanding Poets and Prophets: Essays in Honour of George Wishart Anderson edited by A. Graeme Auld (Sheffield, 1993)

'The Good Neighbour in the Book of Proverbs' in Of Prophets' Visions and the Wisdom of Sages: Essays in Honour of R. Norman Whybray edited by Heather A. McKay and David J. Clines (Sheffield, 1993)

'Wisdom, Virtue and the Human Condition' in The Bible in Human Society: Essays in Honour of John Rogerson edited by M. Daniel Carroll (Sheffield, 1995)

Old Testament Prophecy: From Oracles to Canon (Westminster John Knox Press, 1996)

Ezekiel (Westminster John Knox Press, 1996)

'The Deuteronomic Law of Centralisation and the Catastrophe of 587 B.C.' in After the Exile: Essays in Honour of Rex Mason edited by John Barton and David James Reimer (Mercer, 1996)

'"Arise, Shine; For Your Light Has Come": A Basic Theme of the Isaianic Tradition' in Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah, Volume 1 edited by Craig G. Broyles and Craig A. Evans (Brill, 1997)

'Deuteronomy' in New Interpreter's Bible Vol II (Abingdon, 1998)

'"Who is Blind But My Servant?" (Isaiah 42.19): How Then Shall We Read Isaiah?' in God in the Fray: A Tribute to Walter Brueggemann edited by Tod Linafelt and Timothy Kandler Beal (Fortress, 1998)

'The Biblical Scholarship of H.H. Rowley (1890–1969)', Baptist Quarterly 38.2 (1999): 70-82

'Achan's Sin: Warfare and Holiness' in Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do What is Right? Studies on the Nature of God in Tribute to James L. Crenshaw edited by David Penchansky and Paul L. Redditt (Penn, 2000)

'The Sources of Wisdom' in Understanding Wisdom: Sources, Science and Society edited by Warren S. Brown (Templeton Foundation, 2000)

'The Community of God in the Hebrew Bible' in The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible edited by Leo G. Perdue (Blackwell, 2000)

The Book of Deuteronomy: A Preacher's Commentary (Epworth, 2001)

'Isaiah: A Book without an Ending', Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 97 (2002)

'The Biblical Theology of H.H. Rowley, 1890-1969', Baptist History and Heritage 38.1 (2003)

'Proverbs' in Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible edited by James D. G. Dunn and John William Rogerson (Eerdmans, 2003)

'A Dialogue with Gordon McConville: The origins of Deuteronomy: what are the clues?', Scottish Journal of Theology 56.4 (2003)

'The Davidic Covenant in the Isaiah Tradition' in Covenant as Context: Essays in Honour E. W. Nicholson edited A. D. H. Mayes and R. B. Salters (Oxford, 2003)

'The Former Prophets and Deuteronomy - A Re-Examination' in God's Word for Our World: Biblical Studies in Honor of Simon John De Vries edited by J. Harold Ellens et al (T & T Clark, 2004)

'Jeremiah’s Message of Hope: Public Faith and Private Anguish' in Reading the Book of Jeremiah edited by Martin Kessler (Penn State University Press, 2004)

'Norman Porteous as I Remember Him', Theology in Scotland 12.1 (2005)

'Loving One’s Neighbour and Justice', Anvil 22.2 (2005)

'A Fruitful Venture: The Origin of Hebrew Studies at King’s College London' in Biblical Traditions in Transmission: Essays in Honour of Michael A. Knibb edited by Charlotte Hempel and S. N. C. Lieu (Brill, 2006)

'Prophecy Interpreted: Intertextuality and Theodicy — A case study in Jeremiah 26.16-24' in Uprooting and Planting: Essays on Jeremiah for Leslie Allen edited by John Goldingay (T & T Clark, 2007)

'A Royal Privilege: Dining in the Presence of the Great King (2 Kings 25.27-30) in Reflection and Refraction: Studies in Biblical Historiography in Honour of A. Graeme Auld edited by Robert Rezetko et al (Brill, 2007)

'Monotheism and the God of Many Names' in The God of Israel edited by Robert P. Gordon (Cambridge, 2007)

'The Enduring Value of the Old Testament — An Interesting Quest', Biblical Interpretation 16.1 (2008)

'Prophecy, Ethics and the Divine Anger' in Ethical and the Unethical in the Old Testament: God and Humans in Dialogue edited by Katherine Dell (T & T Clark, 2010)

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'Psalms, Biblical Theology, and the Christian Church' in Studies on the Text and Versions of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert Gordon edited by Geoffrey Kahn and Diane Lipton (Brill, 2012)

'Reminiscences of a BD Finalist — London 1954', Baptist Quarterly 45.5 (2014)

'The Origins of the Society for Old Testament Study: Cultural, Political and Religious Antecedents' in SOTS 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament Study edited by John Jarick (T & T Clark, 2017)