Projects and publications
The Department of Biblical Studies has an international reputation for outstanding research. We support a substantial postgraduate research community, and are fortunate to maintain good connections with our emeritus research staff.
Below you will find details of some current research projects, and selected publications from departmental staff.
Current research projects
James Crossley
James' current research interests involve the historical, ideological and political contexts of contemporary scholarship and the use of New Testament texts in popular and political culture. Other interests include issues relating to early Jewish law and the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins.
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Diana Edelman
Diana is currently editing a 6-volume series called The Books of Moses with Equinox Press. The introductory volume is due out in autumn 2010, and she will write the volume on Genesis during her research leave in autumn semester, 2010.
She is co-editing a book on the Chronicler's understanding of authority with Ehud Ben Zvi for Eisenbrauns Press, to appear in autumn, 2010, and will edit a volume on the creation of the Deuteronomistic corpus (Joshua-Kings) as authoritative literature with the Society of Biblical Literature e-publication series in 2012.
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Mark Finney
Mark's current research is focused on Honour and Conflict in 1 Corinthians. His monograph on this subject is due for publication later this year.
Other research interests include religion and violence, social-scientific interpretation of the New Testament, the social world of early Christianity, and the New Testament in its Greco-Roman context.
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Hugh Pyper
Hugh is currently working on a major book on the history of the concept of an 'Old Testament' and its cultural consequences. Other publishing projects are a postcolonial reading of Daniel and a collection of essays on Kierkegaard as biblical interpreter.
He is also co-editing a collection of essays on the depiction of otherness in illustrated children's bibles.
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Recent publications
Monographs
J.G. Crossley, Reading the New Testament: Contemporary Approaches (London and New York: Routledge, 2010). More details (external link)
M. Finney, Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World: 1 Corinthians in its Greco-Roman Social-Setting (forthcoming, 2010).
J.G. Crossley, Jesus in an Age of Terror: Scholarly Projects for a New American Century (London and Oakville: Equinox, 2008). More details (external link)
D. Edelman, The Origins of the 'Second Temple': Persian Imperial Policies and the Rebuilding of Jerusalem (London: Equinox Press, 2005), 440 oversized pp.
Edited volumes
H. Moxnes, W. Blanton and J. Crossley, eds., Jesus beyond Nationalism: Constructing the Historical Jesus in a Period of Cultural Complexity (London and Oakville: Equinox, 2010)
E Ben Zvi, D. Edelman and F. Polak, eds.
A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics and Language Relating to Persian Israel.
Piscataway, NJ: Giorgias Press, October, 2009). 307 pp. Including chapters: 'God Rhetoric: Reconceptualizing Yahweh Sebaot as Yahweh Elohim in the Hebrew Bible', pp. 191-219; and 'Ezra 1-6 as Idealized Past', pp. 178-190.
D. Edelman and E. Ben Zvi, eds.
The Production of Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud (London: Equinox, July 2009), 235 pp. Including chapters: 'From Prophets to Prophetic Books: Fixing the Divine Word', pp. 29-54; and 'Jonah among the Twelve: The Triumph of Torah over Prophecy', pp. 150-167.
Chapters within edited volumes
H. Pyper, 'Whose prophecy is it anyway? What Micah 3:12 is doing in Jeremiah 36,' in D. Burns and J. Rogerson (eds.), In Search of Philip Davies: Whose Festschrift is it Anyway? (London: T&T Clark, forthcoming 2010).
H. Pyper, 'Cultivated Outrage: World Wrestling Entertainment and the Religious Excess of Violence,' in E. Christianson, C. Partridge (eds.), Understanding Violence and Religion in Popular Culture (London: Equinox, forthcoming 2010).
J. Crossley, '閃ark 7.1-23: Revisiting the Question of "All Foods Clean"', in Torah in the New Testament (ed. M. Tait and P. Oakes; London and New York: Continuum/T&T Clark, 2009), pp. 8-20.
D. Edelman, 'In The Wake of The Wake', in In the Wake of Tikva Frymer-Kensky (ed. R.H. Beal, SW. Holloway and J. Scurlock; Gorgias Précis portfolios, 3; Gorgias Press, 2009), pp. 19-30.
H. Pyper, 'Henrik Nicolai Clausen: The Voice of Urbane Rationalism,' in Jon Stewart (ed.) Kierkegaard and his Danish Contemporaries Tome II Theology (Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Volume 7 Tome II; London: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 41-48.
H. Pyper, 'The Bible: Hinge or Fringe?' in D. Bird and S. Smith (eds.) Theology and Religious Studies in Higher Education: Global Perspectives (London: Continuum, 2009), pp. 184-190.
D. Edelman, 'The "Empty Land" as a Motif in City Laments', in Ancient and Modern Historiography l´historiograhie biblique, ancienne et moderne (eds. G.J. Brooke and T. Römer; Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium, 207; Leuven: Leuven University, 2007), pp. 127-149.
D. Edelman, 'Taking the Torah out of Moses: Moses' Claim to Fame Before He Became the Quintessential Law-Giver', in La construction de la figure de Moïse/The Construction of the Figure of Moses (ed. T. Römer; Transeuphratène Supplément, 13; Paris: Gabalda, 2007), pp. 13-42.
Journal articles
M. Finney, 'Head-coverings and Headship: 1 Corinthians 11.2-16 in its Social Context', Journal for the Study of the New Testament, forthcoming, (2010).
M. Finney, 'Honour, Rhetoric, and Factionalism in the Ancient World: 1 Corinthians 1-4 in its Social Context', Biblical Theology Bulletin, forthcoming, (2010).
H. Pyper, 'Rough Justice: Lars von Trier's Dogville and the Theology of Wrath.' Special edition of Political Theology on The Bible and Justice, forthcoming 2010.
J.G. Crossley, 'Writing about the Historical Jesus: Historical Explanation and "the Big Why Questions", or Antiquarian Empiricism and Victorian Tomes?', Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 7 (2009), pp. 63-90. More details (external link)
H. Pyper, 'Crucifixion in the Concert Hall: Secular and Sacred in James MacMillan's Passion of St John,' Literature and Theology 23 (2009), 344-355.
D. Edelman, 'Hezekiah's Alleged Cultic Centralization', Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 32 (2008), pp. 395-434.
D. Edelman, 'Seeing Double: Tobiah the Ammonite', Revue biblique 113/4 (2006), pp. 570-584.
M. Finney, 'Conflict and Honour in the Ancient World: Some Thoughts on the Social Problems Behind 1 Corinthians', Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association (2007).
Dictionary and Encyclopedia entries
D. Edelman, 'Artaxerxes', 'Artaxerxes I', 'Artaxerxes II', 'Artaxerxes III', 'Artaxerxes IV', 'Asher', 'Baal Shalisha', 'Beeroth', 'Benjamin Gate', in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009).
M. Finney, 'Koinonia' in New Interpreter´s Dictionary of the Bible, Volume III, (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008).
M. Finney, 'Common', 'Common Life', 'Community', 'Community of Goods', in The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Volume I, (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006).
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