Books
Lord of the Banquet: The Literary and Theological Significance of the Lukan Travel Narrative (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989); 2nd ed. (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1998).
Edited, Luke the Interpreter of Israel, vol. 1: Jesus and the Heritage of Israel: Lukeâs Narrative Claim upon Israelâs Legacy (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1999).
Edited with I. Reicke, Re-examining Paulâs Letters: The History of the Pauline Correspondence, by B. Reicke (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2001).
Edited with D. Marguerat, M. C. Parsons, and M. Wolter, Luke the Interpreter of Israel, vol. 2: Paul and the Heritage of Israel: Paulâs Claim upon Israelâs Legacy in Luke and Acts in the Light of the Pauline Letters, LNTS 452 (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2012).
Luke the Historian of Israelâs Legacy, Theologian of Israelâs âChristâ: A New Reading of the âGospel Actsâ of Luke, BZNW 182 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016).
Edited with R. M. Calhoun and T. Nicklas, Modern and Ancient Literary Criticism of the Gospels: Continuing the Debate on Gospel Genre(s), WUNT 451 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020).
Edited with P. B. Duff, J. E. Spittler, and R. M. Calhoun, Paul, Christian Textuality, and the Hermeneutics of Late Antiquity: Essays in Honor of Margaret M. Mitchell, NovTSup 190 (Leiden: Brill, 2023).
Articles and Essays
âJesus and the âWilderness Generationâ: The Death of the Prophet Like Moses according to Luke,â SBLSP 21 (1982): 319â340.
âLuke 9:1â50: Lukeâs Preview of the Journey of the Prophet Like Moses of Deuteronomy,â JBL 102/4 (1983): 575â605; repr. in item 5 (2016): 205â237.
âPaul and the Pattern of the Prophet Like Moses in Acts,â SBLSP 22 (1983): 203â212.
ââThe Christ Must Sufferâ: New Light on the Jesus-Peter, Stephen, Paul Parallels in Luke-Acts,â NovT 28/3 (1986): 220â256; repr. in The Composition of Lukeâs Gospel: Selected Studies from Novum Testamentum, ed. D. E. Orton, Brillâs Readers in Biblical Studies 1 (Leiden: Brill, 1999), 117â153; repr. in item 5 (2016): 238â271.
âAnd Once Again, What Sort of âEssenceâ? A Response to Charles Talbert,â Semeia 43 (1988): 75â84.
âThe Ironic Fulfillment of Israelâs Glory,â in Luke-Acts and the Jewish People: Eight Critical Perspectives, ed. J. B. Tyson (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1988), 35â50, 142â143.
âThe âLeaven of the Phariseesâ and âThis Generationâ: Israelâs Rejection of Jesus according to Luke,â JSNT 11/34 (1988): 21â46; repr. in Reimaging the Death of the Lukan Jesus, ed. D. D. Sylva, BBB 73 (Frankfurt: Hain, 1990), 79â107, 190â194.
âPaul in Acts: Preacher of Eschatological Repentance to Israel,â NTS 34/1 (1988): 96â104; repr. in item 5 (2016): 292â301.
ââThe Christ Must Suffer,â the Church Must Suffer: Rethinking the Theology of the Cross in Luke-Acts,â SBLSP 29 (1990): 165â195.
âIn Memoriam Karl Ludwig Schmidt (1891â1956),â TZ 47/1 (1991): 3â6.
âRe-reading Talbertâs Luke: The Bios of âBalanceâ or the âBiasâ of History,â in Cadbury, Knox, and Talbert: American Contributors to the Study of Acts, ed. J. B. Tyson and M. C. Parsons, BSNA (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991), 203â228; repr. in item 5 (2016): 39â65.
âThe Meaning of
ÎÎÎÎÎÎΣ in the Lukan Prologue as a Key to the Distinctive Contribution of Lukeâs Narrative among the âMany,ââ in The Four Gospels 1992: Festschrift Frans Neirynck, ed. F. Van Segbroeck, C. M. Tuckett, G. Van Belle, and J. Verheyden, 3 vols., BETL 100 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1992), 2:1513â1528; repr. in item 5 (2016): 108â123.âOscar Cullmann, Scholar of Early Christianity, Doctor of the Contemporary Church: The Significance of His ContributionâFor Professor Cullmann on His 90th Birthday,â TZ 48/2 (1992): 238â242.
âGood News for the âWilderness Generationâ: The Death of the Prophet Like Moses according to Luke,â in Good News in History: Essays in Honor of Bo Reicke, ed. E. L. Miller, Scholars Press Homage Series (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993), 1â34.
âSuffering, Intercession, and Eschatological Atonement: An Uncommon View in the Testament of Moses and Luke-Acts,â in The Pseudepigrapha and Early Biblical Interpretation, ed. J. H. Charlesworth and C. A. Evans, JSPSup 14, SSEJC 2 (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993), 202â227.
ââEyewitnesses,â âInformed Contemporaries,â and âUnknowing Inquirersâ: Josephusâ Criteria for Authentic Historiography and the Meaning of
Î ÎΡÎÎÎÎÎÎ¥ÎÎΩ ,â NovT 38/2 (1996): 105â122.âThe âScriptâ of the Scriptures in Acts: Suffering as Godâs âPlanâ (
Î²Î¿Ï Î»á½µ ) for the World for the âRelease of Sins,ââ in History, Literature, and Society in the Book of Acts, ed. B. Witherington III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 218â250.2âTwo Lords âat the Right Handâ? The Psalms and an Intertextual Reading of Peterâs Pentecost Speech (Acts 2:14â36),â in Literary Studies in Luke-Acts: Essays in Honor of Joseph B. Tyson, ed. R. P. Thompson and T. E. Phillips (Mercer, GA: Mercer University Press, 1998), 215â232.
âThe Appeal and Power of Poetics (Luke 1:1â4): Lukeâs Superior Credentials (
ÏαÏÎ·ÎºÎ¿Î»Î¿Ï Î¸Î·Îºá½¹Ïι ), Narrative Sequence (καθεξá¿Ï ), and Firmness of Understanding (ἡ á¼ÏÏάλεια ) for the Reader,â in item 2 (1999): 84â123.âG. B. Caird,â âOscar Cullman,â âB. Reicke,â âK. L. Schmidt,â and âMattias Schneckenberger,â in Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. J. H. Hayes, 2 vols. (Nashville: Abingdon, 1999), 1:156â157, 234â236; 2:380, 444â445, 445â446.
âThe Lukan Prologues in the Light of Ancient Narrative Hermeneutics:
Î ÎΡÎÎÎÎÎÎ¥ÎÎÎÎΤΠand the Credentialed Author,â in The Unity of Luke-Acts, ed. J. Verheyden, BETL 142 (Leuven: Peeters, 1999), 399â417.With D. L. Tiede, âIntroduction: Two Books but One Story?â and âConclusion: âAnd Some Were Persuaded â¦,âââ in item 2 (1999): 1â4, 358â368.
âResponse to Dunn,â Ex Auditu 16 (2000): 47â53.
âIntroduction,â in item 3 (2001): 1â6.
âDionysiusâ Narrative âArrangementâ (
οἰκονομία ) as the Hermeneutical Key to Lukeâs Re-vision of the âMany,ââ in Paul, Luke, and the Graeco- Roman World: Essays in Honour of Alexander J. M. Wedderburn, ed. A. Christopherson, C. Claussen, J. Frey, and B. Longenecker, JSNTSup 217 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002), 149â164; see also item 60 (2016).ââCompleted End(s)ingsâ of Historiographical Narrative: Diodorus Siculus and the End(ing) of Acts,â in Die Apostelgeschichte und hellenistische Geschichtsschreibung: Festschrift für Eckhard Plümacher zu seinem 65. Geburtstag, ed. C. Breytenbach and J. Schröter, AJEC 57 (Leiden: Brill, 2004), 193â221.
ââMinisters of Divine Providenceâ: Diodorus Siculus and Luke the Evangelist on the Rhetorical Significance of the Audience in Narrative âArrangement,ââ in Literary Encounters with the Reign of God, ed. S. H. Ringe and H. C. P. Kim (New York: T&T Clark, 2004), 304â323.
âPaul, the âGospel,â and âNarrative Promptsâ: âJust the Same Thing, Forever,ââ HBT 26 (2004): 94â114.
âHow Luke Writes,â in The Written Gospel, ed. M. Bockmuehl and D. A. Hagner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 149â170; repr. in item 5 (2016): 13â38.
ââManagingâ the Audience: Diodorus Siculus and Luke the Evangelist on Designing Authorial Intent,â in Luke and His Readers: Festschrift A. Denaux, ed. R. Bieringer, G. Van Belle, and J. Verheyden, BETL 182 (Leuven: Peeters, 2005), 61â80; repr. in item 5 (2016): 154â171.
âReading Lukeâs Gospel as Ancient Hellenistic Narrative: Lukeâs Narrative Plan of Israelâs Suffering Messiah as Godâs Saving âPlanâ for the World,â in Reading Luke: Interpretation, Reflection, Formation, ed. C. G. Bartholomew, J. B. Green, and A. C. Thiselton, Scripture and Hermeneutics 6 (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005), 125â154.
ââListening Postsâ along the Way: âSynchronismsâ as Metaleptic Prompts to the âContinuity of the Narrativeâ in Polybiusâ Histories and in Lukeâs Gospel-Acts,â in The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune, ed. J. Fotopoulos, NovTSup 122 (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 129â150; repr. in item 5 (2016): 127â153.
âHow He Was Known in the Breaking of the Bread,â Sacra Scripta 5/2 (2007): 221â238.
âReicke, Bo (1914â1987),â in Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, ed. D. K. McKim (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2007), 853â858.
âLukeâs âPlan of Godâ from the Greek Psalter: The Rhetorical Thrust of âthe Prophets and the Psalmsâ in Peterâs Speech at Pentecost,â in Scripture and Traditions: Essays on Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Carl R. Holladay, ed. P. Gray and G. R. OâDay, NovTSup 129 (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 223â238; repr. in item 5 (2016): 272â287.
ââManaging the Audienceâ: The Rhetoric of Authorial Intent and Audience Comprehension in the Narrative Epistemology of Polybius of Megalopolis, Diodorus Siculus, and Luke the Evangelist,â in The Word Leaps the Gap: Essays on Scripture and Theology in Honor of Richard B. Hays, ed. J. R. Wagner, C. K. Rowe, and A. K. Grieb (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008), 179â197.
âThe Triadic Synergy of Hellenistic Poetics in the Narrative Epistemology of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Authorial Intent of the Evangelist Luke (Luke 1:1â4; Acts 1:1â8),â Neot 42/2 (2008): 289â303; see also item 60 (2016).
ââAnd All Were Baptized into Moses ⦠and the Rock Was Christâ: Moses as âTyposâ of the Faithless Israel in Paulâs Warnings of Idolatry to the Church at Corinth (1 Cor. 10:1â22),â in Saint Paul and Corinth: 1950 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to the Corinthians, ed. C. J. Belezos, 2 vols. (Athens: Psichogios, 2009), 2:303â317.
âCullen I. K. Story (July 26, 1916âNovember 29, 2008),â HBT 31/2 (2009): 97â99.
âQuirinius,â NIDB 4 (2009): 704â705.
âTurning Status âUpside Downâ in Philippi: Christ Jesusâ âEmptying Himselfâ as Forfeiting Any Acknowledgement of His âEquality with Godâ (Phil 2:6â11),â HBT 31/2 (2009): 123â143.
âThe Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles,â in The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, ed. J. J. Collins and D. C. Harlow (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010), 896â899.
ââAbraham Saw My Dayâ: Making Greater Sense of John 8:48â59 from the LXX Version than the MT Genesis 22,â in Die Septuaginta und das frühe Christentum/The Septuagint and Christian Origins, ed. T. S. Caulley and H. Lichtenberger, WUNT 277 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011), 329â338.
âDiegetic Breach or Metaleptic Interruption? Acts 1:4bâ5 as the Collapse between the Worlds of âAll That Jesus Began to Enact and to Teach,ââ BR 56 (2011): 23â34; see also item 60 (2016).
âLuke/Acts and Salvation as History: Oscar Cullmanâs Strange Silence Concerning the New Testamentâs Strongest Proponent of His Conception of Heilsgeschichte,â in Zehn Jahre nach Oscar Cullmans Tod: Rückblick und Ausblick, ed. M. Sallmann and K. Froehlich, Basler und Berner Studien zur historischen Theologie 75 (Zürich: TVZ, 2012), 135â145; repr. as âDas Doppelwerk des Lukas und Heil als Geschichte: Oscar Cullmanns auffälliges Schweigen bezüglich des stärksten Befürworters seiner Konzeption der Heilsgeschichte im Neuen Testamentâ in item 5 (2016): 302â314.
âLukeâs âWitness of Witnessesâ: Paul as Definer and Defender of the Tradition of the Apostlesââfrom the Beginning,ââ in item 4 (2012): 117â147.
With D. Marguerat, M. C. Parsons, and M. Wolter, âIntroduction: The Legacy of Paul in ActsâA âMore Complete and Inhabitableâ New Testament?â and âConclusion: Mediator, Miracle-Worker, Doctor of the Church? The Continuing Mystery of Paul in the New Testament and Early Christianity,â in item 4 (2012): xvâxvii, 318â323.
âThe Living Resources of Early Christology: Papias and the Gospel of Mark,â in Interpretation and the Claims of the Text: Resourcing New Testament Theology; Essays in Honor of Charles H. Talbert, ed. J. A. Whitlark, B. W. Longenecker, L. Novakovic, and M. C. Parsons (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2014), 177â194.
âLuke 19:11â28â and âLuke 19:29â40,â in Feasting on the Gospels: Luke, vol. 2: Chapters 12â24, ed. C. A. Jarvis and E. E. Johnson (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2014), 170â175, 176â181.
With C. Breytenbach, M. M. Mitchell, and J. C. Thom, âFrançois Bovon 1938â2013,â NovT 56/3 (2014): 323â324.
âRedemption,â in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology, ed. S. E. Balentine, et al., 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 2: 222â227.
âLuke as Tradent and Hermeneut: âAs One Who Has a Thoroughly Informed Familiarity with All the Events from the Topâ (
ÏαÏÎ·ÎºÎ¿Î»Î¿Ï Î¸Î·Îºá½¹Ïι á¼Î½Ïθεν ÏᾶÏιν á¼ÎºÏÎ¹Î²á¿¶Ï , Luke 1:3),â NovT 58/3 (2016): 259â300; repr. in item 5 (2016): 68â107.âA New Reading of Lukeâs âGospel Actsâ: Acts as the âMetalepticâ Collapse of Luke and Dionysius of Halicarnassusâs Narrative âArrangementâ (
οἰκονομία ) as the Hermeneutical Keys to Lukeâs Re-Visioning of the âMany,ââ in item 5 (2016): 172â199.âThe Role of Acts in Interpreting the New Testament,â Sacra Scripta 15 (2017): 260â271.
âThe Strange âNew Dishâ Called Acts!â in Delightful Acts: New Essays on Canonical and Non-canonical Acts, ed. H. W. Attridge, D. R. MacDonald, and C. K. Rothschild, WUNT 391 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017), 119â138.
ââThe Living and Enduring Voiceâ: Papias as Guarantor of Early Apostolic Plotting of Incipient Synoptic Traditions,â EC 9/4 (2018): 484â519.
âDiodorus Siculusâ and âPolybius,â in T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, ed. L. T. Stuckenbruck and D. M. Gurtner, 2 vols. (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019), 2:214â215, 616â617.
âLuke as Sceptical âInsiderââRe-configuring the âTraditionâ by Re-figuring the âSynopticâ Plot,â in Sceptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. B. Edelmann-Singer, T. Nicklas, J. E. Spittler, and L. Walt, WUNT 443 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020), 185â201.
âMarkâs Mysterious âBeginningâ (1:1â3) as the Hermeneutical Code to Markâs âMessianic Secret,ââ in item 6 (2020): 243â271.
âPapian Fragments,â in The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries, vol. 2: From Thomas to Tertullian: Christian Literary Receptions of Jesus in the Second and Third Centuries CE, ed. J. Schröter and C. Jacobi (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2020), 493â512.
âThe Problem of the Continuity of Acts with Luke, the Churchâs Reception of Two Separated Volumes, and the Construction of Lukeâs âTheologyâ: Toward a Theology of Jesus the âChristâ of Israel and the âLord of Allâ in the Light of the World Wide Church (
ἡ á¼ÎºÎºÎ»Î·Ïία ) of Lukeâs âGospel-Acts,ââ in History and Theology in the Gospels: Seventh International East-West Symposium of New Testament Scholars, Moscow, September 26 to October 1, 2016, ed. T. Nicklas, K.-W. Niebuhr, and M. Seleznev, with J. König and R. Draughon, WUNT 447 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020), 147â167.With T. Nicklas and R. M. Calhoun, âIntroduction,â in item 6 (2020): 1â6.
With C. Breytenbach, C. Gerber, M. M. Mitchell, and J. C. Thom, âIn Memoriam Henk Jan de Jonge: *28 September 1943, â 16 April 2022,â NovT 64/3 (2022): 267â268.
âThe âArc of Gloryâ in the ArchÄ of John (1:1),â in item 7 (2023): 214â237.
With M. M. Mitchell, âA Tribute to Peder Borgen (1928â2023) and His Legacy of Discovery in the Worlds of Early Judaism and Christianity,â NovT 65/3 (2023): 283.
With P. B. Duff, J. E. Spittler, and R. M. Calhoun, âIntroduction,â in item 7 (2023): 1â3.
Book Reviews
Die Gnosis: Wesen und Geschichte einer spätantiken Religion, by K. Rudolf, TZ 34/5 (1978): 307â309.
Die Parallelen von Lukas-Evangelium und Apostelgeschichte, by G. Muhlack, TZ 35/6 (1979): 372â373.
âAnd So We Came to Romeâ: The Political Perspective of St. Luke, by P. W. Walaskay, Int 39/3 (1985): 318â320.
The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation, by L. T. Johnson, ThTo 44/3 (1987): 416.
Prophetische Züge im Bilde Jesu bei Lukas, by G. Nebe, JBL 110/3 (1991): 534â536.
Die Geschichte Jesu in veränderter Zeit, by M. Korn, JBL 114/2 (1995): 336â338.
The First Theologians: A Study of Early Christian Prophecy, by T. W. Gillespie, PSB 16/3 (1995): 338â341.
Das Gebet im Neuen Testament, by O. Cullmann, NovT 39/1 (1997): 92â94.
The Fourth Gospel: Its Purpose, Pattern, and Power, by C. I. K. Story, PSB 20/1 (1999): 85â86.
Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way, by P. Jenkins, JR 83/1 (2003): 127â128.
Self-Designations and Group Identity in the New Testament, by P. Trebilco, CBQ 77/2 (2015): 381â383.