Publications

Books

 

The Building Blocks of the Earliest Gospel: A Road Map to Early Christian Biography

(Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2018)

Forthcoming in April

The New Testament: An Introduction to Biblical Scholarship

(Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016)

'Used with Permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers'

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The Old Testament: An Introduction to Biblical Scholarship

(Prometheus Books, 2008)

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The Future of Christianity: Can It Survive?

(Prometheus Books, 2006)

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The Influence of the Gospel of Saint Matthew on Christian Literature Before Saint Irenaeus, editor of English translation of Édouard Massaux's L'Influence de l'Évangile de Saint Mattieu sur la Littérature Chrétienne avant Saint Irénée, 3 volumes

(Mercer University Press, 1990, 1992, 1993)

Book 1: The First Ecclesiastical Writers

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Book 2: The Later Christian Writings

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Book 3: The Apologists and the Didache

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The Two-Source Hypothesis: A Critical Appraisal, editor of the essays and author of the introduction and article summaries

(Mercer University Press, 1985)

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Intellectual Honesty and Religious Commitment, editor

(Fortress Press, 1969)

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The Sayings of Jesus in the Writings of Justin Martyr

(E. J. Brill, 1967)

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Monograph

"The Gospel of Matthew in the Second Century," The Second Century: A Journal of Early Christian Studies (Winter 1992, Volume 9, Number 4), 197-269

 

Articles

"The Gospel of Luke in the Apostolic Fathers," in Andrew Gregory and Christopher Tuckett's Trajectories Through the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers (Oxford University Press, 2005), 45-68

"The Gospel of Luke in the Second Century CE," in Richard P. Thompson and Thomas E. Phillips' Literary Studies in Luke-Acts: Essays in Honor of Joseph B. Tyson (Mercer University Press, 1998), 59-76

"Extra-Canonical Literature and the Synoptic Problem," in E. P. Sanders' Jesus, The Gospels, and the Church, Essays in Honor of William R. Farmer (Mercer University Press, 1987), 3-15

"Approaching the Synoptic Problem from the Second Century," Society of Biblical Literature 1976 Seminar Papers (Scholars Press, 1976), 461-465

"The Source of the Agraphon in Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho 47:5," Vigiliae Christianae: A Review of Early Christian Life and Literature, Volume 17, Number 2 (June 1963), 65-70

 

Translation

"History and Cult in the Gospel of John and in Ignatius of Antioch," ["Geschichte und Kultus im Johannesevangelium und bei Ignatius von Antiochien" by Helmut Koester] The Bultmann School of Biblical Interpretation: New Directions? (Harper and Row Publishers, 1965), 111-123

 

Political Columns

Weekly columns in The Citizen, Auburn, New York (2000-2002)