Book Launch Event: The Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Damascus Document by Steven Fraade.
Join us for a discussion of the newest volume of The Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Damascus Document by Steven Fraade. Click HERE to register here for the 1-hour event, which will […]
Dr Patrick McMurray on his new book, Sacrifice, Brotherhood, and the Body: Abraham and the Nations in Romans
Today we are featuring a short interview with Dr Patrick McMurray, who recently published his University of Edinburgh PhD thesis with Fortress Academic.
RIP Hans Barstad
(Matthew Novenson, CSCO director) My friend and colleague Hans Barstad has died, aged 73. A great Norwegian scholar of the classical prophets, in 2006 he left his chair in Oslo […]
New in the Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies: Troels Engberg-Pedersen on Paul the Philosopher
“We have seen that Paul’s philosophizing, as we now understand it, should not be identified with the picture of Paul’s thought that came to be given in the later, systematic, […]
New in the Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies: Emma Wasserman on Paul and Religion
“A number of recent critiques construe the category of religion as an essentializing tool of Western domination that leads to misleading formulations of its supposed object of study (Fitzgerald 2000; […]
New in the Oxford Handbook of Pauline Sudies: Nijay Gupta on pistis Christou in Paul
“Have scholars made any progress in the pistis Christou discussion in the last twenty years? I think the answer is yes. Debates on the basis of syntax are all but […]
New in the Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies: Kathy Ehrensperger on Paul and Feminism
“The divergent images of Paul emerging from [different feminist] approaches are based on different hermeneutical presuppositions through which specific texts or whole letters are analysed. A focus on the gendered […]
New in the Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies: Cavan Concannon on Archaeology and the Pauline Letters
“[Adolf] Deissmann’s optics for seeing the light from ancient remains reminds us that it is important to think about the hermeneutics that are involved in reading archaeological remains in conversation […]
New in the Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies: Laura Dingeldein on Paul the Letter-Writer
“In examining the ways in which letter writing helped Paul achieve his goals of positioning, community building, and moral formation, I consider evidence from Paul’s own letters, other primary sources […]
New entries to the Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies
A couple of years ago, I (Matthew Novenson) took over from Barry Matlock as editor of the Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies. Matlock had commissioned a lot of excellent essays […]