Publications

Books

• Jesus Left Loose Ends (Adelaide: ATFbeck, 2021
• Sexuality and Gender. Collected Essays. WUNT 458 (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2021)
• What Can Love Hope For? Questions for Faith Seeking Understanding (Eugene: Cascade, 2020)
• Jesus in John’s Gospel: Structure and Issues in Johannine Christology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017)
• with Megan K. DeFranza, Wesley Hill and Stephen R. Holmes, Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology; ed. Preston Sprinkle; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016)
• Making Sense of Sex: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Early Jewish and Christian Literature (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013)
• The New Testament on Sexuality (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012)
• The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Apocalypses, Testament, Legends, Wisdom, and Related Literature (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2011)
• Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in the Writings of Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs  (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011)
• Sexuality in the New Testament (London: SPCK; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2010)
• The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality: Attitudes Towards Sexuality in Sectarian and Related Literature at Qumran (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009)
• Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality: Attitudes Towards Sexuality in the Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007)
• The New Testament with Imagination: A Fresh Approach to its Writings and Themes (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007)
• Sexuality and the Jesus Tradition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005) 296pp
• The Septuagint, Sexuality and the New Testament: Case Studies on the Impact of the LXX in Philo and the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004) 173pp.
• Jesus' Attitude towards the Law: A Study of the Gospels (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002) ISBN: 0-8028-4903-2; 578pp; earlier: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2:97 (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1997), ISBN 3-16-146517-2; x + 563pp
• Unique, Prophetic and Apostolic: Six Studies on using the Bible (Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 2000), jointly authored; I wrote 4 of the studies.
• Jesus and the Fundamentalism of his Day (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001) 156 pp. ISBN 0-8028-4796-X; earlier: Jesus and the Fundamentalism of his Day. The Gospels, the Bible and Jesus (Melbourne: Uniting Education) 156 pp. ISBN 1 86407 195; 
• Dear Kim, This is what I believe. Explaining the Christian Faith Today (Melbourne: JBCE, 1993) 87pp
• The Christology of the Fourth Gospel. Structure and Issues (Beiträge zur biblischen Exegese und Theologie 23, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2nd edn., revised, 1992, 1st edn., 1989) 303pp
• The Johannine Epistles (London: Epworth,1992) xxxiii and 108pp
• Glaube in der Bewährung. Hebräerbrief-Jakobusbrief: Bibelauslegung für die Praxis 25 (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft/Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1990) Commentary on Hebrews, 160 pages (jointly authored; I wrote the introduction and exegetical commentary for the section on Hebrews which takes the first 91 pages of which my contribution is 43 pages. After each section which I wrote, another person wrote a section on Praxis)
• The Christmas Stories (Melbourne: Joint Board of Christian Education, 1986) 72pp
• What Does it Mean? Sin, Salvation, Sanctification, Sacrament (Melbourne: Joint Board of Christian Education) 60pp
• Sohn und Hoherpriester. Eine traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zur Christologie des Hebräerbriefes (WMANT 53, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1981) viii and 286pp (a revision and abbreviated version of dissertation 1972:Sohn und Hoherpriester. Eine traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zur Christologie des Hebräerbriefes. Inaugural Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz. Band I: Text, 306 pages; Band II: Anmerkungen, 268 pages, Mainz)

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Tensions in Matthean and Johannine Soteriology Viewed in Their Jewish Context,” in Jesus and Judaism: A Contested Relationship in Context (SBLRBS 87; ed. R. Alan Culpepper and Paul N. Anderson; Atlanta: SBL, 2017) 175-88
  
• "Reading Romans 1 on Homosexuality in the Light of Biblical/Jewish and Greco-Roman Perspectives of its Time," ZNW 108 (2017) 119-49
  
• “The Bible and Homosexuality,” in Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology; ed. Preston Sprinkle; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016)
  
• “The Significance of the Prologue for Understanding John’s Soteriology,” in The Prologue of the Gospel of John: Its Literary, Theological, and Philosophical Contexts. Papers read at the Colloquium Ioanneum 2013 (WUNT 359; ed. Jan G. van der Watt, R. Alan Culpepper, and Udo Schnelle; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016) 45-55
• “Attitudes towards Sexuality in the LXX Translations of Contentious Texts,” in Die Septuaginta – Orte und Intentionen. 5. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 24.-27. Juli 2014 (WUNT 361; ed. Siegfried Kreuzer, Martin Meiser, Marcus Sigismund; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016) 537-49
• "The Significance of 1:14-18 for Understanding John's Approach to Law and Ethics," Review of Rabbinic Judaism 19 (2016) 194-201
  
• “Sexuality and Eschatology: In Search of a Celibate Utopia in Pseudepigraphic Literature” JSP 25 (2016), forthcoming
• What light does Matthew's use of Mark in Matthew 1 - 4 throw on Matthew's theological location?" HTS 72, 4 (2016) on line: http://www.hts.org.za/index.php/HTS/article/view/3284
  
• “Genesis 2:24 and the Jesus Tradition,” in Jesus and the Scriptures: Problems, Passages and Patterns (LNTS 552; ed. Tobias Hägerland; London: T&T Clark, 2016) 33-47
• “What Happened to ‘Good News for the Poor’ in the Johannine Tradition?” in John, Jesus, and History; Vol. 3, Glimpses of Jesus through the Johannine Lens (Early Christianity and its Literature 18; ed. Paul N. Anderson, Felix Just, and Tom Thatcher; Atlanta: SBL, 2016) 469-80
• “Homosexuality: Judaism  Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism,” Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception 12 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016) 301-303
• “Incest: Judaism Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism,” Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception  12 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016) 1077-79
• “Sexualität” in Wissenschaftliche Bibel Lexikon (Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Bibelgesellschaft, 2015) http://www.bibelwissenschaft.de/wibilex/das-bibellexikon/lexikon/sachwort/anzeigen/details/sexualitaet-nt/ch/5f7b644c368e356bcadb10ec7afcbba7/
• “Neuere Tendenzen in der Matthausforschung,” in Update-Exegese 2.1. Ergebnisse gegenwärtiger Bibelwissenschaft (ed. Wolfgang Kraus and Martin Rösel; Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2015) 122-33
• “Marriage and Sexual Relations in the New Testament World,” The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender (ed. Adrian Thatcher; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) 189-205
• “Did Adultery Mandate Divorce? A Reassessment of Jesus’ Divorce Logia,” NTS 61 (2015) 67-78 © Cambridge University Press
  
• "Herod or Alexander Janneus? A New Approach to the Testament of Moses," JSJ 46 (2015) 28-43
  
• “To God and Back: Projections of Male Grandeur” in Men and Women in Early Christianity (Early Christian Studies 18; ed. Wendy Mayer and Ian J. Elmer; Strathfield: St Paul’s, 2014) 41-54
  
• “Marriage and Sexual Relations in the New Testament World,” The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender (ed. Adrian Thatcher; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) 189-205
• “Fornication. Second Temple Judaism and Hellenistic Judaism,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 9 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014) 479-82
•  “Fornication. New Testament,” in Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception 9 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014) 477-79
• “The Significance of 2:15-17 for Understanding the Ethics of 1 John” in Communities in Dispute: Current Scholarship on the Johannine Epistles: The McAfee Symposium on the Johannine Epistles (ed. Paul N. Anderson and R. Alan Culpepper; Atlanta: SBL, 2014) 223-35
  
• “Same-sex relationships: A 1st-century perspective,” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 70, No 1 (2014), 9 pages. doi: 10.4102/hts.v70i1.2114  http://www.hts.org.za/index.php/HTS/article/view/2114
• “Faith in Mark and Paul” in Paul and Mark: Comparative Essays Part I Two: Authors at the Beginnings of Christianity (BZNW 198; ed. by Ian Elmer, David C. Sim and Oda Wischmeyer; Berlin: de Gruyter, June, 2014) 423-64  - pre-published version
  
•  “Gen 3:16-19 LXX and its Reception” in Die Septuaginta – Text, Wirkung, Rezeption (WUNT 325; ed.Wolfgang Kraus und Siegfried Kreuzer; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014) 381-91
• “John 5,19-47: A Deviation from Envoy Christology,” in Studies in the Gospel of John and its Christology: Festschrift Gilbert van Belle (BETL 265; ed. Joseph Verheyden, Geert van Oyen, Michael Labahn, and Reimund Bieringer; Leuven: Peeters, 2014) 149-64
• Art. “Disability, Disabilities II New Testament” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception Volume 6. (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2103) on line http://www.degruyter.com/view/EBR/MainLemma_38795?pi=0&moduleId=common-word-wheel&dbJumpTo=Disability
• “Eschatology and Sexuality in the So-Called Sectarian Documents from Qumran” in Keter Shem Tov: Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls in Memory of Alan Crown (Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts 20; ed. Shani Tzoref and Ian Young; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2013) 315-26 
• “What Happened to ‘Good News for the Poor’? On the Trail of Hope Beyond Jesus,” in Reflections on Early Christian History and Religion (AJEC 81; ed. Cilliers Breytenbach and Jörg Frey;  Leiden: Brill, 2012) 233-66
• “The Law and Ethics in John” in Rethinking the Ethics of John. "Implicit Ethics" in the Johannine Writings. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics. Volume III (ed. Jan G. van der Watt and Ruben Zimmermann; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012) 143-58 
• “Listening and Telling as Preachers,” Word and Worship. Quarterly Publication of the New Zealand Lay preachers’ Association, Spring (2012) 2-5
• “Jesus and the Law” in Handbook of the Study of the Historical Jesus (4 vols; ed. T. Holmén and S. E. Porter; Leiden: Brill, 2011) 2745-72 pdf
• “Does Matthew’s Handling of Sexuality Issues Shed Light on its Context,” in The Gospel of Matthew at the Crossroads of Early Christianity (BETL 243; ed. Donald Senior; Leuven: Peeters, 2011) 569-83
• “Approaching the New Testament as Source of Faith and Witness to Faith” in Hermeneutics and the Authority of Scripture (ed. Alan H. Cadwallader; Adelaide: Australian Theological Forum, 2011) 79-96
• “Jesus and the Law Revisited,” HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 67.1 (2011)
• “The Historical Jesus: Contemporary Interpreters and New Perspectives,” in Henoch 32.2 (2010) 52-55 in 1-81
• “Jesus and the Hope of Change: What Does it Mean for the Poor?” in Jesus as Peasant Sage: Engaging the Work of John Dominic Crossan (ed. Robert L. Webb; LNTS 370; London: T&T Clark, forthcoming)
• “Attitudes to Judaism and the Law and Synoptic Relations” in Studies in the Synoptic Problem: Oxford Conference, April 2008 (ed. A. Gregory, P. Foster, J. S. Kloppenborg and J. Verheyden; BETL 239; Leuven: Peeters, 2011) 347-69
• “Issues of Sexuality in 1Q28a/1QSa; 4Qpap cryptA Serekh ha-‛Edah/4Q249d, e,” in Qumran Cave 1 Revisited: Texts from Cave 1 Sixty Years after Their Discovery: Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the IOQS in Ljubljana (ed. Daniel K. Falk; Sarianna Metso; Donald W. Parry and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar; STDJ 91; Leiden: Brill, 2010) 91-98 pdf
• “Sexuality in the World of Jesus and the Future,” Cross Purposes: A Forum for Theological Dialogue 21 (August, 2010) 12-25 and “William Loader Replies” Cross Purposes: A Forum for Theological Dialogue 22 (December 2010) 8-9 – responding to Hedley Fihaki, The Church’s Faith and Message is Controlled by the Biblical Witness” 3-8
• “Challenged at the Boundaries: A Conservative Jesus in Mark’s Tradition” in New Testament Studies (Volume One: SAGE Benchmarks in Religious Studies; 4 vols; ed. Paul Foster; London: Sage, 2010) 2. (orig:  Journal for the Study of the New Testament  63 [1996] 45-61)
• “Jesus and the Law” in Handbook of the Study of the Historical Jesus (4 vols; ed. T. Holmén and S. E. Porter; Leiden: Brill, 2010) 2745-72 
• “Proverbs’ ‘Strange Woman’: Image and Reality in LXX Proverbs and Ben Sira, Hebrew and Greek” in (ed. Martin Meiser; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010) 562-75
• “Worthy Worship” in Christian Worship in Australia: Inculturating the Liturgical Tradition (ed. Stephen Burns and Anita Monro; Strathfield, NSW: St Paul's, 2009) 109-16 pdf
• “Poverty and Riches in the New Testament” in Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church: Vol. V: Poverty and Riches (ed. Geoffrey D. Dunn, David Luckensmeyer, and Lawrence Cross; Strathfield: St Paul’s, 2009) 3-35
• “The Strange Woman in Proverbs, LXX Proverbs and Aseneth” in Septuagint and Reception: Essays Prepared for the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa (ed. Johann Cook; SVT 127; Leiden: Brill, 2009) 209-23 pdf
• "Jubilees and Sexual Transgression: Reflections on Enochic and Mosaic Tradition,” Henoch 31/1 (2009) 48-54
• “Sexuality and Ptolemy’s Greek Bible: Genesis 1-3 In Translation: ‘... Things Which They Altered For King Ptolemy’ (Genesis Rabbah 8.11)” in Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his World (ed. Paul McKechnie and Philippe Guillaume; Mnemosyne, Supplements ; History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, 300; Leiden: Brill, 2008) 207-32
• “Australia’s Day of Apology to the Stolen Generations of its Indigenous People” Expository Times 119 (2008) 385-86
• “Attitudes towards Sexuality in Qumran and Related Literature – and the New Testament,” NTS 54 (2008) 338-54
• “Finding Faith In Fact And Fiction: Making Sense Of The New Testament While Maintaining Our Integrity And The Integrity Of The Text” Colloquium40 (2008) 23-37
• “What is ‘finished’? Revisiting Tensions in the Structure of Johannine Christology,” in The Death of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (ed. G. van Belle; BETL 200; Leuven: Peeters, 2007) 457-68
• “The Beginnings of Sexuality in Genesis LXX and Jubilees,” in Die Septuaginta – Texte, Kontexte, Lebenswelten (ed. Martin Karrer and Wolfgang Kraus; WUNT 219; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007) 300-12
• “Jubilees and Sexuality,” in “I Sowed Fruits into Hearts”(Odes Sol. 17:13): Festschrift for Michael Lattke (ed. Pauline Allen, Majella Franzmann, and Rick Strelan; Early Christian Studies 12; Strathfield: St Pauls, 2007) 117-36
• “Sexuality and the Historical Jesus,” in Jesus from Judaism to Christianity: Continuum Approaches to the Historical Jesus (ed. Tom Holmén; London: T&T Clark, 2007) 34-48
• “Jesus and the Law in John,” in Theology and Christology in the Fourth Gospel: Essays by Members of the Johannine Writings Seminar (BETL 184; ed. G. van Belle, J. G. Van der Watt, P. Maritz; Leuven: Leuven University Press; Leuven: Peeters, 2005) 135-54
• “Sexuality in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the New Testament” in Chennattu, Rekha M. & Mary L. Coloe (eds) Transcending boundaries: Contemporary Readings of the New Testament: In Honour of Professor Francis Moloney, S.D.B.  (Rome: LAS Publications, 2005) 293-309
• “The Gospel of Conflict: Struggle and Longing in the book of Matthew,” Sojourners Magazine (December 2005) 26-30
• “‘The Passion of the Christ’ and the Suffering of Jesus,” Expository Times 115 (2004) 401-403
• “Jesus and his death” (Arabic) (English) and “The miracles as ‘signs’,” (Arabic) (English) translated  in A Sufi Reading of the Gospel of John (ed. Mazhar Mallouhi et al.; Beirut: Dar Al Jil, 2004)
• “Christian Communities in Earliest Christianity: The Church before the Churches" in Faith and Freedom: Christian Ethics in a Pluralist Culture (ed. D. Neville and P. Matthews, Australian Theological Forum Press, 2003) 45-52
• "Melchisedek," in Religion in der Geschichte und Gegenwart IV (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003)
• "Good News - for the Earth? Reflections on Mark 1.1-15" in Norman C. Habel and Vicky Balabanski (eds) The Earth Story in the New Testament (The Earth Bible 5; Sheffield, Sheffield Acad. Pr., 2002) 28-43
• "'Your Law' - the Johannine perspective" in 'was ihr auf dem Weg verhandelt habt' Beiträge zur Exegese und Theologie des Neuen Testaments. Festschrift für Ferdinand Hahn zum 75. Geburtstag hgg von P. Müller, C. Gerber and T. Knöppler (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2001) 63-74
• "Conversion and Baptism. A cross Cultural Perspective in the Light of the Encounter between Judaism and Hellenism" Bangalore Theological Forum 32.1 (2000)143-155
• "Simple Choices? A response to John Dominic Crossan" Colloquium. The Australia New Zealand Theological Review 31 (1999) 67-74
• "Mark 7:1-23 and the historical Jesus" Colloquium The Australia New Zealand Theological Review30 (1998) 123-151
• "ANZAC Day and the Lectionary" New Springboards Occasional Papers (1998) 1-4
• "Jesus the Jew" Gesher. The Official Journal of the Council of Christians and Jews (Vic) Inc. 1/6 (1997) 48-56 and Trinity Occasional Papers XVII,2 (1997) 5-24
• "The Historical Jesus Puzzle" Colloquium. The Australia New Zealand Theological Review 29 (1997) 131-150
• "Challenged at the Boundaries: A Conservative Jesus in Mark's Tradition" JSNT 63 (1996) 45-61
• "John Michael Owen - Scholar, Teacher, Pastor" Trinity Occasional Papers XVI,1 (June, 1996) 123-128
• "Interpreters of the Tradition" Trinity Occasional Papers XVI,1 (June, 1996) 31-49
• "What about right and wrong?" in: Sexuality. Exploring the Issues (Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 1996) 52-60
• "Reimagining the historical Jesus. Recent Trends" Faith and Freedom. A Journal of Christian Ethics 3.3 (1994) 16-25
• "The New Dead Sea Scrolls. New Light on Messianism and the History of the Community" Colloquium. The Australia New Zealand Theological Review 25 (1993) 67-85
• "Christian Communities in Earliest Christianity: The Church before the Churches" Faith and Freedom A Journal of Christian Ethics 2 (1993) 4-8
• "Biblical Perspectives on Issues of Multiculturalism and Inculturation" Colloquium. The Australia New Zealand Theological Review 24 (1992) 3-13 (an expanded version of:) "The Meaning of 'Brother/Sister' and 'Stranger' in Scripture. Biblical Perspectives on Issues of Multiculturalism and Inculturation" in D. Torresan (Ed.) Multiculturalism and the Catholic Church in WA (Perth: Office of Multicultural Pastoral Care and Catholic Migrant Centre, 1991) 76-95
• "Hellenism and the Abandonment of Particularism in Jesus and Paul" Pacifica 4 (1991) 245-256 also in Radical ? Conservative? Social Issues in the New Testament. Papers from the Conference at Murdoch University with Professor Edwin Judge, 11 August 1990 (Perth: Murdoch University, 1991) 1-10
• "John 1:51 and 'the greater things' of Johannine Christology" in C. Breytenbach and H. Paulsen (Ed.) Anfänge der Christologie. Festschrift für Ferdinand Hahn zum 65. Geburtstag am 18.1.91 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1991) 255-274
• "The Dead Sea Scrolls - Christian Beginnings and Christian Faith" Trinity Occasional Papers 9 (1990) 78-91
• "The Evangelistic Task in Educating the Ministry of the Church" Colloquium. The Australia New Zealand Theological Review 23 (1990) 18-26
• "Jesus and the Rogue in Luke 16,1-8A. The Parable of the Unjust Steward" Revue Biblique 86 (1989) 518-532 pdf
• "Is it necessary to believe in an actual physical resurrection of Jesus Christ?" in: I. Tanner and D. Merritt (eds.) What Does Our Church Say? Questions Uniting Church People are Asking (Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 1989) 23-24
• "The New Testament and Resurrection: Reflections on Peter Carnley's Book, 'The Structure of Resurrection Belief'" Colloquium. The Australia New Zealand Theological Review 22 (1989) 45-50
• "Jesus Left Loose Ends - Reflections on Jesus and the Church" Pacifica 2 (1989) 210-228
• "The Rogue Parable and 'the Rogue Jesus': an Interpretation of Luke 16:1-8a" in E. Osborn and L. McIntosh (Eds.) The Bible and European Literature (Melbourne: Academia) 197-206
• "Baptism in Context - The New Testament Witness" Trinity Occasional Papers 6 (1987) 37-46
• "The People of God, the Old Order and the Old Testament in the Epistle to the Hebrews" Trinity Occasional Papers 3 (1985) 68-77
• "The Feasts of the Jews and the Sabbath Controversy (John 5:1-47)" in H. McGinlay (Ed.) The Years of John (Melbourne: Joint Board of Christian Education; Sydney: Desbooks, 1985) 18-27
• "Paul and Judaism - Is He Fighting Strawmen?" Colloquium. The Australia New Zealand Theological Review 16 (1984) 11-20
• "Jesus with the Jewish Crowds. 1:14 - 3:6" in H. McGinlay (Ed.) The Year of Mark (Melbourne: Joint Board of Christian Education/ Sydney: Desbooks, 1984) 19-29
• "The Central Structure of Johannine Christology" New Testament Studies 30 (1984) 188-216
• "Chapters Four to Seven. Life in God's Kingdom" in H. McGinlay (Ed.) The Year of Matthew (Melbourne: Joint Board of Christian Education; Sydney: Desbooks, 1983) 28-37
• "Son of David, Blindness, Possession, and Duality in Matthew" Catholic Biblical Quarterly 44 (1982) 570-585
• "The Gospel of Universal Salvation" in H. McGinlay (Ed.) The Year of Luke (Melbourne: Joint Board of Christian Education; Sydney: Desbooks, 1982) 45-52
• Biblical Reflections on Ecumenism - the Cake not the Icing (Perth: Western Australian Council of Churches/ Melbourne: Church of Christ Pamphlets, 1982) 12pp
• "Hughes on Hebrews and Hermeneutics. Reflections on Graham Hughes's Monograph" Colloquium. The Australia New Zealand Theological Review 15 (1981) 50-60
• "Christ at the Right Hand - Ps. cx.1 in the New Testament" New Testament Studies 24 (1978/79) 199-217
• "The Central Structure of Johannine Christology" in Religious Studies in the Pacific (Auckland: Auckland University Press) 87-95
• "The Apocalyptic Model of Sonship" Journal of Biblical Literature 97 (1978) 525-544
• "Luke's Historical Docetism: The 'Golden Age' Approach to Christian Origins" in P. Davis and J. Hinchcliff (Eds.) Dialogue on Religion. New Zealand Viewpoints 1977 (Auckland: Auckland University Press) 59-63
• "'The Gifts of the Spirit' - Trouble!" Minimag. A Methodist Ministerial Magazine 10 (1976) 8-9
• "New Testament Christology and Evangelical Responsibility" Minimag . A Methodist Ministerial Magazine 2 (1973) 4-8

Short Notices/Reviews

2013   Review: Christian Frevel (ed.) Intermarriage and group Identity in the Second Temple Period (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 547; New York: RT&T Clark international, 2011) JSJ

2013   Review: John Dunnill, Sacrifice and the Body: Biblical Anthropology and Christian Self-Understanding in Anglican Messenger (May 2013) p. 32
2013   Review: April D. DeConick, Holy Misogyny: Why the Sex and Gender Conflicts in the Early Church Still Matter (New York and London: Continuum, 2011). In CBQ  75 (2013) 569-71
2013   Review: Matthias Henze (ed.), A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2012 in ET
2013   Review: Tobias Hägerland, Jesus and the Forgiveness of Sins: An Aspect of his Prophetic Mission (SNTSMS 150; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) RBL 2/2/13
2012   Review: Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Hermeneutics of Holiness: Ancient Jewish and Christian Notions of Sexuality and Religious Community (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews. February, 2012. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/ showrev.php?id=32936

2012   Review: Torah in the New Testament: Papers Delivered at the Manchester-Lausanne Seminar of June 2008) LNTS 401; ed. of Michael Tait and Peter Oakes; London: T&T Clark, 2009) [http://www.bookreviews.org] 2/26/2012 http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7554

2011   Review: Cheryl B. Anderson, Ancient Laws and Contemporary Controversies: The Need for Inclusive Biblical Interpretation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) in Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] 8/12/2011

2011   Review: Timothy Lim and John J. Collins (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the dead Sea Scrolls (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) in Expository Times 123/5 (February 2012) 230-32

2011   Review: Bruce Hansen, “All of You are One”: the Social Vision of Galatians 3.26, 1 Corinthians 12.13 and Colossians 3.11 (LNTS 409: London: T&T Clark, 2010) in CBQ 73 (2011) 618-20

2011   Review: James G. Crossley, The New Testament and Jewish Law: A Guide for the Perplexed (London/New York: Clark, 2010). Pp. viii + 133 in CBQ 74 (2012) 596-97

2010    Review: Hector Avalos, Sarah Melcher, and Jeremy Schipper, eds., This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2010)

2010    Review: Paula Gooder, Searching for Meaning: An Introduction to Interpreting the New Testament (London: SPCK; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008) pp xxi + 230, CBQ 72 (2010) 374-76

2010    Review: John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 4: Law and Love, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org]

2009    Review: No Longer Living as the Gentiles: Differentiation And Shared Ethical Values In Ephesians 4:17- 6:9 by Daniel Darko. RBL 6/6/09 http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/6667_7229.pdf

2009    Review: Sex in the Bible: A New Consideration by J. Harold Ellens. RBL 21/6/2009 http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/6856_7428.pdf

2009    Review: Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the book of Parables (ed. Gabriele Boccaccini; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007) in Hebrew Studies 50 (2009) 417-20

2009    Encyclopedia Article: “Adultery: V. New Testament,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al., Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009-)

2009    Review: Gabriele Boccaccini and John J. Collins, eds. The Early Enoch Literature (JSJSup 121) Leiden Boston: Brill, 2007 in Review of Biblical Literature (27 March 2009)

2009    Review: A Kingdom of Priests. Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism. By Martha Himmelfarb. (Jewish Culture and Contexts). Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press 2006 Journal for the Study  of Judaism 40 (2009) 107-108

2008    Review: Stephen Voorwinde Jesus’ Emotions in the Fourth Gospel: Human or Divine? London T&T Clark, 2005. Review of Biblical Literature 1/19/2008

2008    Review:  Jörg Frey, Jan G. van der Watt, and Ruben Zimmermann, eds. Imagery in the Gospel of John: Terms, Forms, Themes, and Theology of Johannine Figurative Language. WUNT 200 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006) ABR 56 (2008) 84-85

2008    Review: L. William Countryman, Dirt, Sex and Greed (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007) in Expository Times 120 (2008) 97

2007    Review: Dieter Sänger and Matthias Konradt, eds. Das Gesetz im frühen Judentum und im Neuen Testament: Festschrift für Christoph Burchard (NTOA/SUNT 57) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht; Fribourg: Academic Press, 2006, in Review of Biblical Literature 5 (2007)

2007    Review: Stanley E. Porter (ed.), Reading The Gospels Today (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004) in Pacifica 20 (2007) 98-100

2007    “Adultery” in: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al.; Berlin: de Gruyter)

2006    Review: Jörg Frey and Jens Schröter, eds. Deutungen des Todes Jesu im Neuen Testament (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005) xi + 696pp. in Review of Biblical Literature 12 (2006)

2005    Review: Jo-Ann A. Brant, Dialogue and Drama: Elements of Greek tragedy in the Fourth Gospel (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2004) 304pp. in Colloquium 37 (2005) 197-201

2004    Review: Matthias Konradt, Gericht und Gemeinde: Eine Studie zur Bedeutung und Funktion von Gerichtsaussagen im Rahmen der paulinischen Ekklesiologie und Ethik im 1 Thess und 1 Kor (BZNW 117; Berlin-New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2003) 641pp. in Biblica 85 (2004) 435-38 (Rome;)

2004    Review: R. Timothy McLay, The Use of the Septuagint in New Testament Research (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003) 207pp in Colloquium: The Australia New Zealand Theological Review 36 (2004) 70-73

2003    Review: Cornelis Bennema, The Power of Saving Wisdom: An investigation of Spirit and Wisdom in Relation to the Soteriology of the Fourth Gospel (WUNT 2:148; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002) 318pp in Colloquium: The Australia New Zealand Theological Review 35 (2003) 102-106

2002    "Melchisedek; ii Neues Testament” ," in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Handbuch für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft (Vol 5; 4^th ed.; ed. Hans Dieter Betz et al.; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002) 1017

2002      Francis J. Moloney, A Hard Saying: The Gospel and Culture (Collegeville: Liturgical, 2001) Pacifica 15 (2002) 217-218

2000      Nancy Victorin-Vangerud, The Raging Hearth: Spirit in the Household of God (Chalice, 2000) in Western Impact 10.2000 and Anglican Messenger 12.2000

1998      Victor Pfitzner, Hebrews. in Lutheran Theological Journal 32.3 (1998) 137-139

1997a     Francis Moloney, Signs and Shadows.  Reading John 5-12 (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996) Gesher.  The Official Journal of the Council of Christians and Jews (Vic) Inc. 1/6 (1997) 78

1997b     Francis Moloney, Signs and Shadows.  Reading John 5-12 (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996) Colloquium.  The Australia New Zealand Theological Review 29 (1997) 161-165

1997c      Robert Crotty, The Jesus Question: The Historical Search  (Blackburn, Vic: HarperCollins Religious, 1996) Colloquium.  The Australia New Zealand Theological Review  29/1 (1997) 69-72

1997d      J. Fuellenbach, The Kingdom of God: the Message of Jesus Today (Maryknoll, N. Y.: Orbis Books, 1995, Pacifica 10/1 (1997) 105-107

1997e      Michael Drosnin, The Bible Code; in Western Impact 12.1997

1993        P. W. van der Horst Ancient Jewish Epigraphs. An Introductory survey of  a millenium of Jewish funerary epigraphy (300 BCE - 700 CE). Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 2 (Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1991) 179 pp. Colloquium.  The Australia New Zealand Theological Review  25 (1993) 113-114

1991        Nigel Watson, Easter Faith and Witness. (Melbourne: Joint Board of Christian Education, 1990) Pacifica 4 (1991) 238-240

1990        M. Hengel, The Johannine Question (London: SCM, TPI, 1989) Kings College Review XIII (1990) 50-52

1984        S. Sutherland, God, Jesus and belief (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984), Western Impact 4.1985

1982        H. Trenaman, The Greatest Question of All (1982) Western Impact 8.1982

1980        Robert Maddox, Witnesses to the End of the Earth (Sydney: United Theological College Publication, 1980) Western Impact 10.1980

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