Publications
Paul, Antioch and Jerusalem: A Study in Relationships and Authority in Earliest Christianity. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 66; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press / Library of New Testament Studies; London: Bloomsbury, 1992; ISBN 1850753318 / 9781850753315. Second Impression, Bloomsbury Academic Collections - Biblical Studies: Early Christianity; London: Bloomsbury, 2015. ISBN 9781474230544.
“Paul’s Apostolic Legitimacy: Autobiographical Reconstruction in Galatians 1:11-2:14", Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 83 (1993) 65-77.
“The Social Nature of Conversion in the Early Christian World”, pp. 128-136 in P. F. Esler (ed), Modelling Early Christianity. London & New York: Routledge, 1995.
“Palestinian Christianity and the Caligula Crisis: I. Social and Historical Reconstruction”, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 61 (1996) 101-124.
“Palestinian Christianity and the Caligula Crisis: II. The Markan Eschatological Discourse”, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 62 (1996) 13-41.
“Paulo, Fariseo, Cristiano e Dissonante”, A. J. Blasi & A. Nesti (eds), Guidismo e cristianismo delle origini in prospettiva sociologica. Religioni e Società 24 (1996) 22-39.
“Onesimus: A Study in Slavery and Conversion in Early Christianity”, Religion and Theology 3 (1996) 159-181.
Editor, Sociology of Early Christianity and Contemporary Christian Life. Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture 32.1 (1997).
“Paul for Today: Race, Class, and Gender in Light of Cognitive Dissonance Theory”, N. H. Taylor (ed), Sociology of Early Christianity and Contemporary Christian Life. Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture 32.1 (1997) 22-38.
“Interpretation of Scripture as an Indicator of Socio-Historical Context: The Case of the Eschatological Discourses in Mark and Q”, pp. 459-467 in C. M. Tuckett (ed), The Scriptures in the Gospels: The Use of the Old Testament in the Four Gospels. Leuven: Leuven University Press & Peeters, 1997.
“Paul, Pharisee and Christian: Israel, the Gentiles, and the Law of Moses in Light of Cognitive Dissonance Theory”, Theologia Viatorum 24 (1997) 45-65.
“Cognitive Dissonance and Early Christianity: A Theory and its Application Reconsidered”, Religion and Theology 5 (1998) 138-153.
“Luke-Acts and the Temple”, pp. 709-721 in J. Verheyden (ed), The Unity of Luke-Acts. Leuven: University Press & Peeters, 1999.
“Prolegomena to Reconstructing the Eschatological Teaching of Jesus”, Neotestamentica 33 (1999) 145-60.
“Early Christian Expectations Concerning the Return of Jesus: from Imminent Parousia to the Millenium”, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 104 (1999) 32-43.
“Jerusalem and the Temple in early Christian Life and Teaching”, Neotestamentica 33 (1999) 445-61.
“Reflections on Advent and Eschatology”, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 105 (1999) 75-80.
“Caligula, the Church of Antioch, and the Gentile Mission”, Religion and Theology 7 (2000) 1-23.
Editor, Religion, Ecology, and Justice. Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture 35.3 (2000).
“Educating Theological Educators for Africa in the Twenty First Century”, Religion and Theology 7 (2000) 82-86.
“Popular Opposition to Caligula in Jewish Palestine”, Journal for the Study of Judaism 32 (2001) 54-70.
“The Temptation of Jesus on the Mountain: A Palestinian Christian Polemic against Agrippa I”, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 83 (2001) 27-49.
“Pharisees and Herodians: The Historical and Political Background to Mark 3:6; 12:13”, Neotestamentica 34 (2000) 299-310.
“Conflicting Bases of Identity in early Christianity: The Example of Paul”, pp. 577-597 in A. J. Blasi, J. Duhaime, and P.-A. Ducotte (ed), Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press, 2002.
“Who persecuted the Thessalonian Christians?”, Hervormde Teologiese Studies 58 (2002) 784-801.
“The Contextualisation of Christianity in the early Church”, pp. 41-54 in E. R. Johnson (ed), Reflections on Christian Faith: An African Context. Mutare: Africa University Press, 2002.
Editor, with J.A. Draper & M.T. Speckman, Word, Sacrament, and Community: Festschrift for Professor J. N. Suggit. Neotestamentica 36 (2002).
“Baptism for the Dead (1 Cor 15:29)?”, Neotestamentica 36 (2002) 111-120.
“Stephen, the Temple, and early Christian Eschatology”, Revue Biblique 110 (2003) 62-85.
“Paul and the Historical Jesus Quest”, Neotestamentica 37 (2003) 105-26.
“The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Transmission of the Synoptic Eschatological Discourse”, Hervormde Teologiese Studies 59 (2003) 283-311.
“Conflict as Context for defining Identity: A Study of Apostleship in the Galatian and Corinthian Letters”, Hervormde Teologiese Studies 59 (2003) 915-945.
“Q and Galilee?”, Neotestamentica 37 (2003) 283-311.
"The Jerusalem Temple in Luke-Acts", Hervormde Teologiese Studies 60 (2004) 459-85.
“Apostolic Identity and the Conflicts in Corinth and Galatia”, pp. 99-127 in S. E. Porter (ed), Paul and his Opponents. Pauline Studies 2. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
“Stephen in History and Tradition”, Scripture Bulletin 37.2 (2007) 21-29.
Editor, with J.-C. Loba-Mkole, New Testament Interpretations in Africa. Journal for the Study of the New Testament 30.1 (2007).
“Baptism and Death: Pastoral Liturgy at the Death of an Unbaptized Person”, Anaphora: Journal of the Society for Liturgical Studies 1 (2007) 55-80.
"Dying with Christ in Baptism: Issues in the Translation and Interpretation of Rom 6:3-4”, The Bible Translator 59 (2008) 38-49.
“Some Observations on Theological Method, Biblical Interpretation, and Ecclesiastical Politics in current disputes in the Anglican Communion”, Theology 111 (2008) 51-58.
“Puteoli”, New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible IV (Nashville: Abingdon, 2009) 692.
Lay Presidency at the Eucharist? An Anglican Approach. London & New York: T & T Clark / Continuum / Mowbray, 2009. ISBN 1906286183 / 9781906286187.
Editor, R. E. B. Taylor, He Took, Blessed, Broke, and Gave: Some Notes on the Celebration of The Holy Eucharist according to the order of An Anglican Prayer Book 1989 (2 [revised & expanded] ed; Cape Town: PreText, 2010). ISBN 978-0-9814224-5-9.
"Liturgy and Identity: Conversion-Initiation in Galatians 3: 26-29", Anaphora: Journal of the Society of Liturgical Studies 6.2 (2012) 1-18.
What can we know about Jesus? The St Aidan's Lectures 2013. Glasgow: Scottish Episcopal Church, Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway, 2013. ISBN 978-1-872170-12-1.
Editor, John Kafwanka, Anderson Jeremiah, John Miller & Nicholas Taylor, David Livingstone and Christian Mission &
Ecumenism Today. Special St Aidan's Lectures commemorating David Livingstone 200. Glasgow: Scottish Episcopal Church, Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway, 2014. ISBN 978-1-872170-13-8.
Paul on Baptism: Theology, Mission, and Ministry in Context. London: SCM, 2016. ISBN 978-0-334054-76-4. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2017. ISBN 978-15326-1823-9.
"Christianity, Scripture, and Zionism", Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 2.2 (2018) 7-34
"Liturgy and Theological Method in the Scottish Episcopal Church", Records of the Scottish Church History Society 47 (2018) 143-54
"Baptism, Death, and Funeral Rites: Paul’s Teaching on Baptism in Romans 6: 3-4 in Light of Contemporary Funereal Customs and Beliefs about Death", Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 2.3 (2018) 3-30
"The Biblical and Historical Foundations of Episcopacy", Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 2.4 (2018) 23-34
"Scripture and Mission", Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 3.1 (2019) 32-50
"Truth and the Biblical Tradition", pp. 1-16 in D. Jasper & J. A. Wright (ed), Truth and the Church in a Secular Age (London: SCM, 2019)
“Towards Renewal of the Scottish Liturgy: Some Principles”, Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 3.4 (2019) 8-17
“The Lord’s Prayer in the Eucharist”, Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 3.4 (2019) 57-64
“Issues in Eucharistic Theology”, Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 3.4 (2019) 79-93
“The Fraction and Distribution”, Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 3.4 (2019) 94-100
“Truth and the Biblical Tradition”, D. Jasper & J. A. Wright (ed), Truth and the Church in a Secular Age (London: SCM, 2019) 1-16
"Church, Ministry, and Coronavirus", Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 4.2 (2020) 3-9
with David Jasper, "Proclaiming the Gospel of Holy Week and Easter under Lockdown", Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 4.2 (2020) 99-112
“Being Human in the Biblical Tradition”, M. J. Fuller & D. Jasper (ed), In the Image of God (Durham: Sacristy, 2021) 1-30
“Professor James D. G. Dunn, FBA, DD (1939-2020)”, Review of Ecumenical Studies 13.1 (2021) 113-16
“Anti-Semitism in the New Testament?”, Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 5.3 (2021) 99-131
(with J. R. Davies) “Sacraments and Ministry in the Scottish Episcopal Church”, Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 6.1 (2022) 69-80
“The Anglican Heritage in a Global Communion”, M. T. Speckman & G. O. West (ed), Faithful Disciple and Servant Scholar (Johannesburg: Anglican Church of Southern Africa, 2022) 124-31
"The Burial of Jesus and Christian Funerals", Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 6.3 (2022) 31-42
"Evocation of Baptism in Funeral Rites", Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 6.3 (2022) 65-81
(Editor, with Bridget Nichols), The End of the Church? (Durham: Sacristy, 2022)
“The Vocation of the Theologian: Marginality and Vision”, Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 7.1 (2023) 7-18
“Biblical Scholarship, Theology and Ministry in the Anglican Tradition”, Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 7.1 (2023) 44-53
"Land of Promise? Some Observations and Reflections on the Report of the Anglican Communion Network for Inter Faith Concerns", Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 7.2 (2023) 67-178