Books
2007 (in progress)
Dynamics of Identity and Early Christianity: Associations
and Cultural Minorities in the Roman Empire (in
preparation).
Associations in the Ancient World: Cults,
Guilds and Collegia, co-authored with John S. Kloppenborg and Richard
Ascough (in process, forthcoming with de Gruyter).
2003
Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient
Mediterranean Society. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003.
(Winner of the F. W.
Beare Book Award, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, 2004)
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Articles in
Refereed Journals
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reproduced here with permission from the copyright holders,
publishers, journals and/or editors.
2007
“Familial Dimensions
of Group Identity (II): ‘Mothers’ and ‘Fathers’ in Associations and
Synagogues of the Greek World,” Journal for the Study of Judaism in
the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period 38 (2007) 57-79.
2006
“Acculturation
and Identity in the Diaspora: A Jewish Family and ‘Pagan’ Guilds at
Hierapolis,” Journal of Jewish Studies 57 (2006)
222-244.
2005
“Familial
Dimensions of Group Identity: ‘Brothers’ (ΑΔΕΛΦΟΙ) in Associations of the
Greek East,” Journal of Biblical Literature 124 (2005)
491-513.
2003
“Christ-bearers and Fellow-initiates: Local Cultural Life and Christian
Identity in Ignatius’ Letters,” Journal of Early Christian Studies
11 (2003) 481-99.
“Imperial Cults within Local Cultural Life:
Associations in Roman Asia,” Ancient History Bulletin / Zeitschrift für
Alte Geschichte 17 (2003) 85-107.
2000
“Honouring the
Emperor or Assailing the Beast: Participation in Civic Life among
Associations (Jewish, Christian and Other) in Asia Minor and the Apocalypse
of John,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 77
(2000) 99-121.
1996
“Honours and Worship: Emperors, Imperial Cults and
Associations at Ephesus (first to third centuries
c.e.),” Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses 25
(1996)
319-34.
Articles in
Books and Reference Works
2007
"‘These
people are . . . Men Eaters’: Banquets of the Anti-Associations and
Perceptions of Minority Cultural Groups" in Identity and
Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean: Jews, Christians and Others.
Essays in Honour of Stephen G. Wilson, edited by Zeba A. Crook and
Philip A. Harland. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007.
2006
“The Declining Polis? Religious Rivalries in Ancient Civic Context,” in
Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the
Rise of Christianity,
edited by Leif E. Vaage. Studies in Judaism and Christianity, volume
18. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
2005
“Spheres of Contention, Claims of Preeminence:
Rivalries Among Associations in Sardis and Smyrna,” in Religious
Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna, edited by Richard
Ascough, pp. 53-63. Studies in Judaism and Christianity, volume 18. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.
2002
“Connections with Elites in the World of the Early
Christians,” in Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science
Approaches, edited by Anthony J. Blasi, Paul-André Turcotte, and
Jean Duhaime, pp. 385-408. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2002.
“The Economy
of First Century Palestine: The State of Scholarly Discussion,”
in Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches, edited by
Anthony J. Blasi, Paul-André Turcotte, and Jean Duhaime, pp. 511-27.
Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2002.
2000
“Bithynia,” “Mysia,”
“Pamphylia,” and “Perga,” in Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, edited
by D.N. Freedman, A.B. Beck and A.C. Myers. Grand Rapids: Eerdman,
2000.
Book Reviews
2005
Review of Susan Elliott, Cutting Too Close for Comfort: Paul’s Letter to the Galatian’s in its Anatolian Cultic Context
(Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, 248.
London: T & T Clark, 2003) in
Phoenix 40 (2006): 154-55.
Review
of Judith M. Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman
World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) in Biblical
Theology Bulletin 35 (2005): 152-53.
Review
of “Richard A. Horsley, ed., Paul and the Roman Imperial Order
(Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2004) in
Religious Studies Review 31 (2005): 92.
2004
Review of Richard S. Ascough,
Paul’s Macedonian
Associations: The Social Context of Philippians and 1 Thessalonians
(Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 161. Tübingen:
Mohr Siebeck, 2003) in Toronto Journal of Theology
20 (2004): 205-206.
2003
Review of Richard N. Longenecker,
Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period (2nd edition; Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1999) in Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses 31
(2002):126
2001
Review of Greg Carey, Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation to John (Macon:
Mercer University Press, 1999) in The Journal of Religion 81 (2001):
454-55.
1997
Review
of
Steven J. Friesen, Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the
Flavian Imperial Family (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993) in Toronto Journal
of Theology 13 (1997): 272-73.
Review of Edith McEwan
Humphrey, The Ladies and the Cities: Transformation and Apocalyptic
Identity in Joseph and Aseneth, 4 Ezra, the Apocalypse and the Shepherd of
Hermas (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995) in Toronto Journal
of Theology 13 (1997): 279-81.
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