Additional Biblical Studies

What the Bible Really Says? - John Burnett

Truth and Meaning in Scripture - Fr. John Breck

Allegory: Exegetical Method or Spiritual Vision? - Fr. John Breck

Preaching the Word of God - Anthony M. Coniaris

Hermeneutics as Apprenticeship: How the Bible Shapes Our Interpretive Habits and Practices - David I. Starling

Sola Scriptura in the Vanity of Their Minds: An Orthodox Examination of the Protestant Teaching - John Whiteford

The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts - eds. Joel B. Green and Lee Martin McDonald

Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes - Kenneth E. Bailey

Paul through Middle Eastern Eyes - Kenneth E. Bailey

Apostolic Fathers and Paul - eds. Todd Still, David Wilhite

In the Footsteps of Saint Paul: An Academic Symposium - eds. Archbishop Demetrios, Fr. Deacon John Chryssavgis

Honor and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew - Jerome H. Neyrey

Semeia 68: Honor and Shame in the World of the Bible - eds. Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin

Dinah's Lament: The Biblical Legacy of Sexual Violence in Christian Interpretation - Joy A. Schroeder

Deborah's Daughters: Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation - Joy A. Schroeder

And He Will Take Your Daughters....Woman Story and Ethical Evaluation of Monarchy in the David Narrative - April D. Westbrook

The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel - Moshe Halbertal & Stephen Holmes

God and Politics in Esther - Yoram Hazony

Now My Eye Sees You: Unveiling an Apocalyptic Job - Luke Timothy Johnson

Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus - Ched Myers (excerpt)

Primitive Communism in Acts? Does Acts present the Community of Goods (2:44-45; 4:32-35) as Mistaken? - Steve Wolton

Holy Community of Life and Property amongst the Poor: A Response to Steve Walton - Brian J. Copper

Bible Commentary Books - Fr. Tadros Malaty

Bible Studies Downloads

An Oriental Orthodox Approach to Hermeneutics - K. M. George

Scripture, the Gospel and Orthodoxy - Fr. John Behr

Recent Biblical Hermeneutics in Patristic Perspective: The Tradition of Orthodoxy - Fr. John Anthony McGuckin

The Gospel According to St. Justin the New: Justin Popovic on Scripture - Vladimir Cvetkovic, in What is the Bible? The Patristic Doctrine of Scripture - eds. Matthew Baker and Mark Mourachian (academia.edu)

Is There an Orthodox Exegesis? Engaging Contextual Hermeneutics in Orthodox Biblical Studies - Predrag Dragutinović

On Freedom, Love and Power: Expanded Edition - Jacques Ellul

On Being Rich and Poor: Christianity in a Time of Economic Globalization - Jacques Ellul

Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture - Francis M. Young

Orthodox Center for the Advancement of Biblical Studies

Language for God in Patristic Tradition: Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism - Mark Sheridan

Yahweh in Africa: Essays on Africa and the Old Testament - Knut Holter

Israel and Empire: A Postcolonial History of Israel and Early Judaism - Leo G. Perdue and Warren Carter

Come Out, My People! God's Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond - Wes Howard-Brook

If Not Empire, What? A Survey of the Bible - Berry Frisen and John K. Stoner

Race, Racism and the Biblical Narratives - Cain Hope Felder

Old Testament Models for Emperors in Early Byzantium - Claudia Rapp (academia.edu)

The Old Testament and Monasticism - Derek Krueger

Byzantine Emperors and Old Testament - Kelsey Eldridge

The Ascetic Ideal and the New Testament - Fr. Georges Florovsky

Paul Did Not Teach 'Stay in Slavery' - S. Scott Bartchy

First-Century Slavery and the Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7:21 - S. Scott Bartchy

The Manumission of Slaves in Early Christianity - James Albert Harrill

Pillars of Cloud and Fire: The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation - Herbert Robinson Marbury

The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved - Emerson B. Powery and Rodney S. Sadler

Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation - Katie Geneva Cannon, in The Black Studies Reader - eds. Jacqueline Bobo and Cynthia Hudley

The Making of the New Testament: Church, Gospel and Canon - Theodore G. Stylianopoulos

The Apostolic Gospel - Theodore G. Stylianopoulos

The People of God according to Romans 9-11: An Eastern Christian Approach to the Identity of God's Beloved Olive Tree - Dr. Daniel Ayuch (academia.edu)

Apostasy in the New Testament Communities, 3 vols. - B. J. Oropeza

Some Initial Notes for A Comparison of Orthodox Worship and Mission Today, with the Eschatological Vision of Worship in the Book of Revelation - Fr. Anthony (Spencer) Estabrooks 

Remember Thy First Love (Revelation 2:4-5): THe Three Stages of the Spiritual Life in the Theology of Elder Sophrony - Aarchimandrite Zacharias

The Abomination of Desolation (spoken of by Daniel the Prophet) - Fr. Athanasius Iskander

The Old Testament in Eastern Orthodox Tradition - Eugen J. Pentiuc

The Garma Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospels Books from Ethiopia - eds. Judith S. McKenzie and Francis Watson

The Bible in Arab Christianity - David Thomas

The Shepherd of Hermas in Ethiopia - Ted Erho (academia.edu)

The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible - Allen Dwight Callahan

Ebed-Melech: The Un-noticed Ethiopian Eunuch (Jeremiah 37-39)

Semeia 83/84 - Slavery in Text & Interpretation - eds. Allen Dwight Callahan and Richard A. Horsley

Ancient Ethiopia and the New Testament: Ethnic (Con)texts and Racialized (Sub)texts - Gay L. Byron / They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism - ed. Randall C. Bailey

Reading the Bible from the Margins - Miguel A. De La Torre

Christians and Roman Rule in the New Testament: New Perspectives - Richard J. Cassidy 

Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception - Bruce W. Longenecker

Christian Origins and the Ancient Economy - David A. Fiensy

The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 - Colin Kidd