Francis Watson

DPhil, Oxford  (1984)

Lecturer in New Testament and Reader in Biblical Theology, King's College London (1984-1999)

Kirby Laing Professor of New Testament Exegesis, Aberdeen (1999-2007)

Professor of New Testament Exegesis, Durham (2007-)

Theta Phi Lectures, Asbury Theological Seminary (2008)

Major Works

'2 Cor. X-XIII and Paul’s Painful Letter to the Corinthians', Journal of Theological Studies 35: 324-346 (1984)

'The Social Function of Mark’s Secrecy Theme' Journal for the Study of the New Testament 24: 49-69 (1985)

Paul, Judaism and the Gentiles (1986, 2nd ed., 2007)

(ed.) The Open Text: New Directions for Biblical Studies? (1993)

Text, Church and World (1994)

'Christ, Law and Freedom: A Study in Theological Hermeneutics' in God and Freedom (1995)

'Bible, Theology and the University: A Response to Philip Davies', Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 72: 3-16 (1996)

Text and Truth (1997)

'The Scope of Hermeneutics' in The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (1997)

'Theology and Music', Scottish Journal of Theology 51.4 (November 1998), 435-463

'Trinity and Community: A Reading of John 17', International Journal of Systematic Theology 1: 168-84 (1999)

Agape, Eros and Gender: Towards a Pauline Sexual Ethic (2000)

'The Authority of the Voice: A Theological Reading of 1 Cor. 11.2-16', New Testament Studies 46: 520-36 (2000)

'The Triune Divine Identity: Reflections on Pauline God-Language, in Disagreement with J. D. G. Dunn', Journal for the Study of the New Testament 80: 99-124 (2000)

'The Bible' in The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth (2000)

'The Quest for the Real Jesus' in The Cambridge Companion to Jesus (2001)

'Is There A Story in These Texts?' in Narrative Dynamics in Paul (2002)

'Spaces Sacred and Profane: Stephen Moore, Sex and the Bible', Journal for the Study of the New Testament 25 (September 2002), 109-117

“America’s theologian” an appreciation of Robert Jenson’s Systematic Theology, with some remarks about the Bible', Scottish Journal of Theology 55: 201-23 (2002)

Paul and Hermeneutics of Faith (2004)

'The Fourfold Canonical Gospel' in The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels (2006)

'Paul the Reader: An Authorial Apologia', Journal for the Study of the New Testament 28 (March 2006), 363-373

'A Response from Francis Watson', Scottish Journal of Theology 59.4 (November 2006), 461-468

'Response to Richard Hays', Pro Ecclesia 16.2 (2007), 134-140

“I Received from the Lord.” Paul, Jesus and the Last Supper' in Jesus and Paul Reconnected (2007)