Prelims Bibliography--New Testament Area

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS

NEW TESTAMENT AREA
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN RELIGION
DUKE UNIVERSITY
General:
Aune, David E. The New Testament in Its Literary Environment. Library of Early Christianity.
Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.
Bauer, Walter. Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity. 1934. Philadelphia: Fortress,
1971.
Fredriksen, Paula. From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus. 2nd
ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Hays, Richard B. The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation. A
Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1997.
Hurtado, Larry W. Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Grand
Rapids/Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2003.
Kmmel, Werner Georg. The New Testament: The History of the Investigation of Its Problems.
Nashville/New York: Abingdon Press, 1972.
Moore, S. D. Literary Criticism and the Gospels: The Theoretical Challenge. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1989.
Robinson, James M., and Helmut Koester. Trajectories Through Early Christianity.
Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971.
Rowland, Christopher. Christian Origins: An Account of the Setting and Character of the Most
Important Messianic Sect of Judaism. 2nd ed. London: SPCK, 2002.
Schussler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of
Christian Origins. New York: Crossroad, 1983.
Smith, Jonathan Z. Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the
Religions of Late Antiquity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Historical Jesus:
Allison, Dale C. Jesus and the Victory of Apocalyptic. Pp. 126-41 in Jesus and the Restoration
of Israel: A Critical Assessment of N. T. Wrights Jesus and the Victory of God. Edited by
Carey C. Newman. Downers Grove IL/Carlisle UK: InterVarsity Press/Paternoster Press,
1999.
------. A Plea for Thoroughgoing Eschatology. JBL 113 (1994): 651-68.
------. Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters. New
York/London: T&T Clark, 2005.
Braaten, Carl E., and Roy A. Harrisville, eds. The Historical Jesus and the Kerygmatic Christ:
Essays on the New Quest of the Historical Jesus. New York: Abingdon Press, 1964.
Crossan, John Dominic. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. San
Francisco: Harper, 1991.
Dodd, Charles Harold. The Parables of the Kingdom. 1935. Glasgow: Collins, 1961.
Dunn, James D. G. Jesus Remembered. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.
Harvey, Anthony E. Jesus and the Constraints of History. Philadelphia: Westminster Press,
1982.
Klausner, Joseph. Jesus of Nazareth: His Life, Times, and Teaching. 1925. New York:
Macmillan, 1929.

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Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. ABRL. New York: Doubleday,
1991.
Reimarus, Hermann Samuel. Fragments. 1779. Scholars Press Reprints and Translations Series.
Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985.
Sanders, E. P. Jesus and Judaism. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.
Schweitzer, Albert. The Quest of the Historical Jesus: First Complete Edition. Minneapolis:
Fortress, 2001 [orig. 1901]].
Strauss, David Friedrich. The Life of Jesus Critically Examined. 1840. Philadelphia: Fortress,
1972.
Wright, N. T. Jesus and the Victory of God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.
Synoptic Gospels: General
Bauckham, Richard, ed. For Whom Were Gospels Written. Pp. 9-48 in The Gospels for All
Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.
Bultmann, Rudolf. History of the Synoptic Tradition. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
Burridge, Richard A. What Are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography.
SNTSMS 70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Dibelius, Martin. From Tradition to Gospel. 1933. Cambridge: James Clarke, 1971.
Goodacre, Mark. The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem.
Harrisburg PA: Trinity Press International, 2002.
Mitchell, Margaret. Patristic Counter-Evidence to the Claim That the Gospels Were Written for
All Christians. New Testament Studies 51 (2005): 36-79.
Sanders, E. P., and Margaret Davies. Studying the Synoptic Gospels. London/Philadelphia: SCM
Press/Trinity Press International, 1989.
Streeter, Burnett Hillman. The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins. London: Macmillan, 1924.
Theissen, Gerd. The Gospels in Context: Social and Political History in the Synoptic Tradition.
Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.
Synoptic Gospels: Mark
Fowler, Robert. The History of Reading Mark. Pp. 228-61 in Let the Reader Understand:
Reader-Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.
Marcus, Joel. Introduction. Pp. 15-81 in Mark 1-8: A New Translation with Introduction and
Commentary. AB 27. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
------. The Way of the Lord: Christological Exegesis of the Old Testament in the Gospel of Mark.
Louisville/Edinburgh: Westminster-John Knox/T & T Clark, 1992.
Marxsen, Willi. Mark the Evangelist. Nashville: Abingdon, 1969.
Telford, William, ed. The Interpretation of Mark: A History of Development and Issues.
Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1995.
Tolbert, Mary Ann. Sowing the Gospel: Marks World in Literary-Historical Perspective.
Philadelphia: Fortress, 1989.
Tuckett, Christopher M., ed. The Messianic Secret. IRT 1. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
Wrede, William. The Messianic Secret. 1901. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 1971.
Synoptic Gospels: Matthew
Allison, Dale C. The New Moses: A Matthean Typology. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993.
Bornkamm, Gnther, Gerhard Barth, and Heinz Joachim Held. Tradition and Interpretation in
Matthew. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1963.

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Carter, Warren. Matthew and the Margins: A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading. Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
Goulder, Michael. Midrash and Lection in Matthew. London: SPCK, 1974.
Luz, Ulrich. The Theology of the Gospel of Matthew. New Testament Theology. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Saldarini, Anthony J. Matthews Christian-Jewish Community. Chicago/London: University of
Chicago Press, 1994.
Stanton, Graham N. A Gospel for a New People: Studies in Matthew. Edinburgh: T&T Clark,
1992.
Stendahl, Krister. The School of St. Matthew and Its Use of the Old Testament. Philadelphia:
Fortress, 1968.
Luke-Acts
Barrett, C. K. Introduction.. In A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the
Apostles. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994-1908.
Bovon, Francois. Luke the Theologian: Thirty-Three Years of Research (1950-1983). PTMS 12.
Allison Park PA: Pickwick, 1987.
Cadbury, Henry J. The Making of Luke-Acts. London: Macmillan, 1927.
Conzelmann, Hans. The Theology of St. Luke. 1953. New York: Harper & Row, 1961.
Jackson, F. J. Foakes, and Kirsopp Lake, eds. The Beginnings of Christianity. 5 Vols. London:
Macmillan, 1920-33. (Selected Essays)
Keck, Leander E., and J. Louis Martyn. Studies in Luke-Acts: Essays Presented in Honor of Paul
Schubert. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966.
Johannine literature
Ashton, J. Understanding the Fourth Gospel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Brown, Raymond E. The Community of the Beloved Disciple. New York: Paulist, 1979.
------. The Gospel According to John. AB 29 & 29A. Garden City: Doubleday, 1966-70.
Culpepper, R. Alan. Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design. Foundations and
Facets: New Testament. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
Ksemann, Ernst. Jesu letzter Wille nach Johannes 17. Tbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1966.
Martyn, J. Louis. History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel. 3rd ed. Louisville/London:
Westminster John Knox, 2003.
Meeks, W. A. The Man from Heaven in Johannine Sectarianism. JBL 91 (1972): 44-72.
Smith, D. Moody. John Among the Gospels: The Relationship in Twentieth-Century Research.
Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.
------. The Theology of the Gospel of John. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995.
Pauline literature
Baur, Ferdinand Christian. Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ: His Life, Works, His Epistles and
Teaching. 1845. Peabody MA: Hendrickson, 2003.
Beker, J. Christiaan. Paul the Apostle: The Triumph of God in Life and Thought. Philadelphia:
Fortress, 1980.
Boyarin, Daniel. A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity. Contraversions 1.
Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1994.
Davies, W. D. Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline Theology. New
York/Evanston: Harper & Row, 1948.
Dunn, James D. G. The New Perspective on Paul. Pp. 183-214 in Jesus, Paul and the Law:
Studies in Mark and Galatians. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990.

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------. The Theology of Paul the Apostle. New Testament Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1998.
Harink, Douglas. Paul Among the Post-Liberals: Pauline Theology Beyonhd Christendom and
Modernity. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2003.
Hays, Richard B. Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. New Haven: Yale, 1989.
Horsley, Richard, ed. Paul and Empire. Harrisburg PA: Trinity Press International, 1997.
Ksemann, E. The Righteousness of God in Paul. Pp. 168-82 in New Testament Questions of
Today. 1960. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969.
Ksemann, Ernst. Perspectives on Paul. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971.
Knox, John. Chapters in a Life of Paul. Rev. ed. London: SCM, 1987.
Levine, Amy-Jill, and Marianne Blickenstaff, eds. A Feminist Companion to Paul. Cleveland:
Pilgrim Press, 2004.
Longenecker, Bruce, ed. Narrative Perspectives on the Pauline Gospel. Louisville:
Westminster/John Knox, 2002.
Martyn, J. Louis. Theological Issues in the Letters of Paul. SNTW. Edinburgh/Nashville: T. & T.
Clark/Abingdon, 1997.
Meeks, Wayne A. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. New
Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1983.
Meggitt, Justin J. Paul, Poverty and Survival. Studies of the New Testament and Its World.
Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998.
Sanders, E. P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion.
Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977.
Schweitzer, Albert. The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle. 1931. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1968.
Stendahl, Krister. Paul Among Jews and Gentiles and Other Essays. Philadelphia: Fortress,
1976.
Watson, Francis. Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith. London/New York: T&T Clark
International (Continuum), 2004.
Wright, N. Thomas. The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and Law in Pauline Theology.
Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1991.
Catholic epistles and Revelation
Achtemeier, Paul J. 1 Peter: A Commentary on First Peter. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress
Press, 1996.
Attridge, Harry W. The Epistle to the Hebrews. Hermeneia. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1989.
Bauckham, Richard. The Theology of the Book of Revelation. New Testament Theology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Bauckham, Richard J. Jude, 2 Peter. WBC 40. Waco TXC: Word, 1983.
Caird, George B. A Commentary on the Revelation of St. John the Divine. 2nd ed. Blacks New
Testament Commentaries. London: Black, 1984.
Collins, John J. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature.
2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.
Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Letter of James: A New Translation with Introduction and
Commentary. AB 37A. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Koester, Craig R. Hebrews. AB 36. New York: Doubleday, 2001.
Schssler Fiorenza, Elizabeth. The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment. 2nd ed.
Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998.
Wall, Robert. Introduction to Epistolary Literature. Pp. 369-91 in The New Interpreters Bible.
Edited by L. E. Keck. Nashville: Abingdon, 2002.

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New Testament Theology

Bultmann, R. Theology of the New Testament. 2 vols. in 1. New York: Scribners, 1951-55.
Childs, Brevard S. Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on
the Christian Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.
Gabler, Johann Philipp. On the Proper Distinction Between Biblical and Dogmatic Theology.
Scottish Journal of Theology 33 (1980): 133-58.
Morgan, Robert. Theology (NT). Pp. 6.473-83 in Anchor Bible Dictionary, 1992.
Schlatter, Adolf. The Theology of the New Testament and Dogmatics. Pp. 117-66 in The
Nature of New Testament Theology. Edited by Robet Morgan. Naperville IL: Alec R.
Allenson, 1973.
Wrede, William. On the Task and Methods of New Testament Theology. Pp. 68-116 in The
Nature of New Testament Theology. Edited by Robet Morgan. Naperville IL: Alec R.
Allenson, 1973.
Text and canon
Childs, Brevard S. Excursus I. The Hermeneutical Problem in New Testament Text Criticism.
Pp. 518-30 in The New Testament as Canon: An Introduction. Valley Forge PA: Trinity
Press, 1994.
Ehrman, Bart D. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological
Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. New York/Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1993.
Gamble, Harry Y. Canon, New Testament. Pp. 1.852-61 in Anchor Bible Dictionary. New
York: Doubleday, 1992.
Gese, Harmut. The Biblical View of Scripture. Pp. 9-33 in Essays on Biblical Theology.
Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1981.
Holmes, Michael W. Reasoned Eclecticism in New Testament Textual Criticism. Pp. 336-60
in The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on The Status
Quaestionis. Edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes. Studies and Documents.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.
Metzger, B. M. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration.
New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. 2nd ed.
Metzger, Bruce M. The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.
Westcott, B. F., and F. J. A. Hort. Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek with
Notes on Selected Readings. 1882. Peabody MA: Hendrickson, 1988.
Greco-Roman environment
Carcopino, Jrme. Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the
Empire. London: Routledge, 1941.
Deissmann, A. Light from the Ancient East: The New Testament Illustrated by Recently
Discovered Texts of the Graeco-Roman World. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1978;
orig. 1922.
DeSilva, David A. Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture.
Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2000.
Klauck, H.-J. The Religious Context of Early Christianity: A Guide to Graeco-Roman Religions.
SNTW. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2000.
MacMullen, R. Paganism in the Roman Empire. New Haven/London: Yale University Press,
1981.
Malherbe, Abraham J., ed. Moral Exhortation: A Greco-Roman Sourcebook. Philadelphia:
Westminster, 1986.

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Meeks, Wayne A. The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1993.
Millar, F. The Roman Near East 31 BC-AD 337. Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University
Press, 1993.
Millar, Fergus. The Emperor in the Roman World (31 BC - AD 337). Ithaca NC: Cornell
University Press, 1977.
Nock, Arthur Darby. Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to
Augustine of Hippo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1933.
Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New
York: Schocken Books, 1975.
Price, S. R. F. Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Stambaugh, John E., and David L. Balch. The New Testament in Its Social Environment.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986.
Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Jerome Lectures 16. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1988.
Jewish environment
Barclay, J. M. G. Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora from Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE - 117
CE). Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1996.
Boyarin, Daniel. Introduction; the Close Call; Quo Vadis. Pp. 1-66 in Dying for God:
Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism. Figurae. Stanford University
Press, 1999.
Cohen, S. J. D. The Significance of Yavneh: Pharisees, Rabbis, and the End of Jewish
Sectarianism. HUCA 55 (1984): 27-53.
Collins, J. J. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to the Jewish Matrix of Christianity.
New York: Crossroad, 1984.
Goodman, M. The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome A.D.
66-70. Cambridge/New York/Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Grabbe, L. L. Judaism from Cyrus to Hadrian. Vol. 2: The Roman Period. Minneapolis:
Fortress, 1992.
Hengel, M. Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in Their Encounter in Palestine During the Early
Hellenistic Period. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1974.
Ilan, T. Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996.
Levine, L. I. The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years. New Haven/London: Yale
University Press, 2000.
Moore, G. F. Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era. New York: Schocken, 1971
[orig. 1927-1930].
Neusner, J. From Politics to Piety: The Emergence of Pharisaic Judaism. Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prenctice-Hall, 1973.
Nickelsburg, George W. E. Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah. 2nd ed.
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 2005.
Sanders, E. P. Judaism: Practice and Belief 63 BCE-66 CE. London/Philadelphia: SCM/Trinity
Press International, 1992.

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Schrer, E. The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135).
Edited by Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar, and Martin Goodman. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark,
1973-87.
Schwartz, D. R. Introduction. Pp. 1-26 in Studies in the Jewish Background of Christianity.
WUNT 60. Tbingen: J.C.B.Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1992.
Schwartz, S. Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. Jews, Christians, and
Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University
Press, 2001.