Publications

Major publications include:

Monographs

  • The Preface to Luke's Gospel: Literary Convention and Social Context in Luke 1:1-4 and Acts 1:1. SNTS Monograph 78; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993. xv + 250 pp. Paperback reissue, 2005.

  • Acts in its Ancient Literary Context: A Classicist looks at the Acts of the Apostles (Studies in the NT and its World; London/New York: Continuum, 2005: forthcoming).

Edited Volumes

  • Images of Empire: the Roman Empire in Jewish, Christian and Greco-Roman Sources. Proceedings of the interdisciplinary Images of Empire colloquium held in Sheffield in March 1990. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 122; Sheffield: JSOT Press 1991. 316 pp.

Articles

  • Luke's Preface in the Pattern of Greek Preface-Writing', Novum Testamentum 28/1 (1986), pp.48-74.

  • 'Hellenistic Letter-form and the Structure of Philippians', Journal for the Study of the New Testament 37 (1989) (= New Testament Essays in Honour of David Hill, ed. C.M.Tuckett), pp.87-101.

  • 'The Living Voice: Scepticism Towards the Written Word in Early Christian and in Greco-Roman Texts', pp.221-47 of The Bible in Three Dimensions, ed. D.J.A.Clines, S.E.Fowl, S.E.Porter (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press 1990).

  • 'Sisters in Adversity: Retelling Martha's Story', pp.167-86 of Women in the Biblical Tradition, ed. George J. Brooke (Edwin Mellen Press, 1992). Reprinted in Amy-Jill Levine (ed.), A Feminist Companion to Luke’s Gospel (Sheffield: SAP, 2002).

  • 'Acts and Ancient Intellectual Biography', pp.31-63 of The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting: I Ancient Literary Setting, eds. Bruce W. Winter & Andrew D. Clarke (Eerdmans: Grand Rapids 1993).

  • 'Paul and the Hellenistic Schools: the Evidence of Galen': in Paul in his Hellenistic Context, ed Troels Engberg-Pedersen (Philadelphia: Augsburg Fortress/Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1994).

  • 'The Relevance of Greco-Roman Literature and Culture to New Testament Studies': pp. 109-126 of Hearing the New Testament, ed. Joel B.Green (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans / Carlisle: Paternoster 1995).

  • '"In journeyings often": Voyaging in the Acts of the Apostles and in Greek Romance': pp.17-49 of Luke’s Literary Achievement: Collected Essays, ed. C.M.Tuckett (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995).

  • ‘Narrative Maps: Reflections on the Toponymy of Acts', pp.17-57 of The Bible in Human Society: Essays in Honour of John Rogerson, eds. M. Daniel Carroll R., D.J.A.Clines, P.R.Davies, (JSOTSS 200; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press,1995).

  • 'The Preface to Acts and the Historians': in History, Literature and Society in the Book of Acts, ed. Ben Witherington III (Cambridge University Press: 1996), pp.73-103.

  • ‘Ancient Book-Production and the Circulation of the Gospels’, in Richard J. Bauckham (ed.), The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 1997), pp.71-111.

  • ‘Marathon or Jericho? Reading Acts in Dialogue with Biblical and Greek Historiography’, in David J.A. Clines and Stephen D. Mooore (ed.), Auguries: The Jubilee Volume of the Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies, (JSOTSS 269; Sheffield; SAP 1998), pp. 92-125.

  • ‘Fact, Fiction, and the Genre of Acts’, New Testament Studies 44/3 (July 1998), pp. 380-99.

  • ‘St. Paul and the Greek Novel’, in Ron Hock (ed.), Ancient Fiction and Early Christian Narrative (SBL Symposium Series; Atlanta: Scholars Press,1998), pp.235-256.

  • ‘The Acts of the Apostles as an Apologetic Text’, in Mark Edwards, Martin Goodman, Simon Price, Chistoper Rowland (ed.), Apologetics in the Roman Empire (Oxford: OUP 1999), pp.15-44.

  • ‘Reading Luke-Acts from Back to Front’, in Jos Verheyden (ed.), The Unity of Luke-Acts (BETL; Leuven: Peeters, 1999), pp.419-46.

  • ‘Which Greco-Roman Prologues Most Closely Parallel the Lukan Prologues?’, in David P. Moessner (ed.), Jesus and the Heritage of Israel, (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1999), pp.9-26.

  • ‘Intertextualité et la question des lecteurs,’ in D. Marguerat, A. Curtis (ed.), Bible et Intertextualité (proceedings of the 1998 Manchester-Lausanne Colloquium; Geneva: Labor et Fides), pp.201-14.

  • ‘What if Luke had never met Theophilus?’, in J. Cheryl Exum (ed.), Virtual History and the Bible (Biblical Interpretation, 8, 1/2; Leiden: Brill, 1999), pp.161-70.

  • ‘IPSE DIXIT: Citation of Authority in Paul and in the Jewish and Hellenistic Schools’, in Troels Engberg-Pedersen (ed.), Paul Beyond the Judaism-Hellenism Divide (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001), pp.103-27.

  • ‘”Foolishness to the Greeks”: Jews and Christians in the public life of the Empire’, in G. Clark, T. Rajak, (ed.), Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World: essays in honour of Miriam T. Griffin (Oxford: OUP 2002), pp.229-49.

  • Mapping Early Christianity: Acts and the Shape of Early Christianity,’ Interpretation 57/2 (April 2003), pp.163-173.

  • ‘New Testament Narrative and Ancient Epic,’ in Emmanuelle Steffek & Yvan Bourquin (ed.), Raconter, interpreter, annoncer: Parcours de Nouveau Testament. Mélanges offerts à Daniel Marguera pour son 60e anniversaire (Le Monde de la Bible 47; Genève: Labor et Fides, 2003), pp.239-49.

  • ‘Septuaginta, Fachprosa, Imitatio: Albert Wifstrand and the Language of Luke-Acts,’ in Cilliers Breytenbach & Jens Schröter (ed.), Die Apostelgeschichte und die hellenistische Geschichtsschreibung: Festschrift für Eckhard Plümacher zu seinem 65. Geburtstag (Leiden: Brill, 2004), pp.1-26.