James Crossley

Boy Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Through a creative but disciplined approach to birth and infancy narratives (including noncanonical stories), Joan Taylor challenges the received consensus among critical scholars who argue that we can know little about the early life of Jesus. Her long-recognized expertise in ancient history, languages, literature, and material culture is used to show that we can say quite a lot about the fraught nature of family life in Judea and Galilee against the backdrop of displacement, health crises, banditry, and the ever-present threat of violence from the ruling classes. While Taylor’s intellectual prowess is evident, Boy Jesus is also written in her typically engaging and accessible style.”

Currents in the Interpretation of Paul

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Currents in the Interpretation of Paul is an important collection in its own right, but it is further so for showcasing the innovative work of Neil Elliott as among the most important in Pauline studies over the past fifty years. With learning deep and wide, Elliott goes beyond the parochialism of Pauline scholarship and engages with questions of philosophy, theory, religion, race, class, and colonialism—to name a few—and shows how significant Marxism is for the study of Christian origins and early Judaism. The advantage for those sympathetic to Elliott’s readings is that they have an advocate whose work cannot be ignored.”

Ethnicity and Inclusion

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In Ethnicity and Inclusion, David Horrell has successfully shown how careful readings of New Testament texts can be combined not only with theoretical reflection but also with a contextualization of contemporary scholarship. In recent decades, scholars of New Testament texts have barely moved from their intellectual comfort zones. This has been problematic for the development of the field as a whole and unwittingly contributed to the perpetuation of both the racialization of interpretation and the structures of the guild. Horrell’s latest contribution has the potential to blow this tired tradition wide open and become one of the defining books in the field so far this century.”

Interpreting Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Happily, Dale Allison has not left Jesus behind. Allison’s well-known attention to detail continues in Interpreting Jesus as he updates his thinking on topics where he has had a profound influence on modern historical Jesus and Gospel scholarship (e.g., eschatology, Moses typologies, the miraculous, memory). He has also continued to produce equally important detailed work on the history of Jesus scholarship and its broader reception, areas overlooked by many peers. Allison’s thinking is not easily pigeonholed, and his independence of mind shown in Interpreting Jesus means he will continue to influence scholarship for years to come.”

James, Brother of Jesus, and the Jerusalem Church

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Jesus’s Manifesto

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Memories of Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Throughout his distinguished career, Halvor Moxnes has embraced and contributed to new approaches to the study of Jesus and the origins of Christianity in a careful and creative manner. Memories of Jesus brings together a lifetime of scholarly work and combines it with memory studies and reception historical approaches to the Bible to provide a remarkable book on a history of interpretation of Jesus. This landmark book points the way to the future of critical Jesus scholarship.”

The Galilean Wonderworker

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

The Gospel on the Margins

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In this invigorating and informative study, Michael J. Kok surveys who knew what about Mark’s Gospel during the second century. In an extremely useful and readable form, he assembles the available evidence and advances the striking hypothesis that early Christian writers were often hesitant to use Mark because they viewed it as susceptible to misuse by rival factions. Kok’s thesis is bold, provocative, and argued with great energy. Moreover, if it is judged correct, it casts significant light on some of the noteworthy forces and dispute at work in the early Christian movement.” —Paul Foster School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh “Controlling abundant primary evidence with fine analysis of biblical and patristic scholarship, Michael J. Kok reopens the question of Mark’s ambiguous authority in second-century Christianity. That the Gospel lay in the crosshairs of ancient disputes over incipient orthodoxy is a creative proposal, vigorously argued, which merits reflection and testing.” —C. Clifton Black Princeton Theological Seminary “The Gospel on the Margins is part of an increasingly prominent trend in scholarship that looks at the early receptions of the Gospels. In his combination of traditional exegetical approaches with theoretical concerns about ‘reception’ and ‘centrism,’ Kok provides a distinctive, learned, and important contribution to the debate. For anyone interested in the earliest receptions of Mark’s Gospel, and the Gospels more generally, Kok’s impressive book will be required reading.”

The Identities of the Beast from the Sea and the Beast from the Land in Revelation 13

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

“Joseph Poon shows how complex notions of empire can be when we think about the structures of thought involved with ancient imperialism and how they are negotiated in Revelation. But this book also shows how interdisciplinary interests can benefit conventional exegesis in his close reading of Revelation 13. Anyone working on empire and Revelation, as well as understanding of the beasts in Revelation, ought to think carefully about the arguments presented here.”