This paper engages with the conceptual backdrop to the term “citizenship” which appears within the Pauline corpus in passages such as such as Philippians 3:20 or Ephesians 2:19. While a lexical study of the NT πολίτης and its various forms are engaged within this work, significant space is also devoted to elucidating the Old Testament … Read more
Although for almost two centuries now scholars have marshaled endless texts to support their preferred reconstruction of the “Colossian heresy”, one pertinent parallel has not been included in the debate, namely Seneca’s Epistle 95. Nevertheless, enough similarities exist between this epistle and Colossians to pique the scholar’s interest. For instance, in his epistle, the Stoic … Read more
In Matthew Bates’s influential Salvation by Allegiance Alone (2017) and Gospel Allegiance (2019), Bates seeks to define the gospel based on the NT’s own summary texts. He concludes that the content of the gospel consists of a series of 8 or 10 “Christ events” and is centered on Jesus’ kingship. Bates assumes and builds upon … Read more
Matthew 9:18–26 recounts the stories of a bleeding woman and a young girl, and this narrative has become a focal point of homilies, sermons, religious art, songs, and social movements. Varying interpretations of this passage abound throughout church history, and although many of these interpretations typically express more than a simple correlation between faith and … Read more
The unique feature of Johannine eschatology – the tension between the present and the future, with a significant focus on the present age – is well reflected in John 3:36, which describes two destinies: eternal life or the wrath of God. Two further aspects of this verse have been largely overlooked by scholars: (1) the … Read more
This paper argues that in his account of the stoning of Stephen, Luke alluded to the seizure of Jeremiah in Jeremiah 26:1-24. This allusion, which has passed largely undiscussed within modern scholarship, is exegetically significant because it draws a contrast between the generation of Jeremiah and the generation of Stephen. During Jeremiah’s generation, in all … Read more
From the Jewish leaders’ fear of the crowd to their own use of the crowd to intimidate Pilate, the specter of mob violence lurks in the background of Matthew. Unfortunately, very little scholarly work has been done on the role of mob violence in Matthew. This paper seeks to fill this gap in scholarship by … Read more
This essay brings the theology of participation with Christ into contact with Paul’s first-century belief about the spirit-world, both fundamental components of Paul’s thought. By doing so, one can see that participation with Christ, who triumphed over the powers, entails similar spiritual warfare for believers. While Tannehill briefly recognizes this component of participation, and Gombis … Read more
This paper argues that a robust examination of the Old and New Testament beatitudes is needed to best interpret the Beatitudes of Matthew 5. A literature review will reference the voices from today to those of St. Gregory of Nyssa and St. Augustine, connecting the modern ear to voices from the Nicene period. The review … Read more
Abstract The 77th ETS Annual Meeting November 18-20, 2025, Boston, Massachusetts Damascus Road as Bethlehem’s Field The Rebirth of Saul in Acts 9 Corresponds Intertextually to the Birth of Jesus in Luke 2 I argue that through the literary technique of recursion (parallel, narrative analogy), the key events and major characters in the depiction of … Read more