Publishing updates from the CBS
The first semester of this academic year saw a number of exciting publications from members of the Centre for Biblical Studies.
The first semester of this academic year saw a number of exciting publications from members of the Centre for Biblical Studies.
Professor published Empire, Economics, and the New Testament (Eerdmans, 2020). The book provides both a collection of Oakes’s key work in drawing together these fields, and a new piece, . He has also published ‘Revelation 17.1–19.10: A Prophetic Vision of the Destruction of Rome’, in , Jonathan J. Price and Katell Berthelot, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 206-226. This book is one of the outputs of a major European project for which Oakes was a member of the comité scientifique.
Professor Oakes, CBS Honorary Research Fellow Dwight Swanson and Emeritus have all contributed essays to part of Semitica 62, 2020: Dwight Swanson, ‘Insights from Qumran for the Exegesis of Scripture in the Gospel of Matthew’; Peter Oakes, 'George Brooke’s The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament: Reflections and Principles for Future Study’; George J. Brooke, 'The Dead Sea Scrolls and Comparisons’.
Meanwhile, Professor Brooke has also contributed 'Isaiah in the Qumran Scrolls' to , edited by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (Oxford University Press, 2021), 429-450 and "Patterns of Priesthood and Patterns of Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls," to , edited by Ariel Feldman and Timothy J. Sandoval, BZAW 524 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020), 115-130. He has further published in Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 30:2 (2020), 101-114.
Several CBS Honorary Research Fellows have also published on a range of topics. Professor Mary Mills, published in The Jerome Biblical Commentary, eds David Senior, John Collins et al (London: T&T Clark, 2021). Dr Stephen C. Barton, has also published a number of chapters: ‘Jesus, the Gospels, and the Kingdom of God in Constitutional Perspective’, in Peter Bolt and James Harrison, eds., (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2020); ‘Paul and Mental Health’, in Christopher Cook and Isabelle Hamley, eds., (London: SCM, 2020); ‘God and the knowledge of God in the Gospels’, in Stephen C. Barton and Todd Brewer, eds., (second edition; Cambridge: CUP, 2021). Dr has published Function and Creativity in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Cryptic Calendars from Qumran," in , eds. Carmen Palmer, Andrew R. Krause, Eileen Schuller, and John Screnock (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2020).
Finally, two recent PhD graduates from the department also published their theses. Baesick Choi, (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2020) is the publication of a supervised by Professor George Brooke from 2013 until 2017. Dr Choi now works as a Methodist minister in Virginia, USA. Yoonjong Kim has also published an adaptation of his , which was supervised by Professor Peter Oakes and Dr Todd Klutz - (LNTS 635; London: T&T Clark, 2020).
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