Beverly Roberts Gaventa

PhD (Duke)

Helen H.P. Manson Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis, Princeton Theological Seminary

Distinguished Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Baylor University (2013-)

 

Publications

From Darkness to Light: Aspects of Conversion in the New Testament (Fortress, 1986)

(ed.) with Robert Fortna, The Conversation Continues: Studies in Paul and John in Honor of J. Louis Martyn (1990)

'The Singularity of the Gospel: A Reading of Galatians' in D. Hay (ed.), Pauline Theology Vol. 1 (1991)

The Singularity of the Gospel: A Reading of Galatians

Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus (1995)

'Mother's milk and ministry in 1 Corinthians 3' in E H Lovering and J L Sumney (eds.), Theology and Ethics in Paul and His Interpreters (Abingdon, 1996)

First and Second Thessalonians (Interpretation Series / Westminster John Knox, 1998)

'Is Galatians just a "guy thing"? A Theological Reflection' Interpretation 54.3 (July 2000)

(ed.), Blessed One: Protestant Perspectives on Mary (2002)

Acts (Abingdon, 2003)

'The Cosmic Power of Sin in Paul's Letter to the Romans: Towards a Widescreen Edition', Interpretation (July 2004)

'"Nothing will be Impossible with God": Mary as the Mother of Believers' in Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds.), Mary, Mother of God (Eerdmans, 2004)

'Theology and Ecclesiology in the Miletus Speech: Reflections on Content and Context', Scottish Journal of Theology 50.1 (2004)

'The God Who Will Not Be Taken For Granted: Reflections on Paul's Letter to the Romans' in B. Gaventa and P. Miller (eds.), The Ending of Mark and the Ends of God (Westminster John Knox, 2005)

Our Mother Saint Paul (Westminster John Knox, 2007)

'Interpreting the Death of Jesus Apocalyptically: Reconsidering Romans 8.32' in Todd D. Still (ed.), Jesus and Paul Reconnected (Eerdmans, 2007)

'From Toxic Speech to the Redemption of Doxology in Paul's Letter to the Romans' in J. Ross Wagner et al (eds.), The Word Leaps the Gap (Eerdmans, 2008)

'Finding a Place of Children in the Letters of Paul' in M. Bunge et al (eds.), The Child in the Bible (Eerdmans, 2008)

'Learning and Relearning in the Identity of Jesus from Luke-Acts' in Beverly Gaventa and Richard B. Hays (eds.), Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage (Eerdmans, 2008)

'On the Calling-into-Being of Israel: Romans 9.6-26' in J. Ross Wagner (ed.), Between Gospel and Election (Mohr Siebeck, 2010)

'Reading for the Subject: The Paradox of Power in Romans 14.1-15.6', Journal of Theological Interpretation 5.1 (2011)

'"Neither Height nor Depth": Cosmos and Soteriology in Paul's Letter to the Romans' in Joshua B. Davis and Douglas Harink (eds.), Apocalyptic and the Future of Theology: With and Beyond J. Louis Martyn (Cascade, 2012)

'The Shape of the “I”: The Psalter, the Gospel, and the Speaker in Romans 7' in B. Gaventa (ed.), Apocalyptic Paul: Cosmos and Anthrops in Romans 5-8 (Baylor, 2013)