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Centre for the Study of Judaism and Christianity in the Ancient World
Staff publications
CJCA staff publications
2021
Crossley, James.
Spectres of John Ball: The “Peasants’ Revolt” in English Political History, 1381–2020.
Sheffield: Equinox.
Crossley, James. “The End of Apocalypticism: From Burton Mack’s Jesus to North American Liberalism.”
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
, 1–20
Crossley, James. “Jesus and John Ball: Millenarian Prophets.” Pages 51–76 in
“To Recover What Has Been Lost”: Essays on Eschatology, Intertextuality, and Reception History in Honor of Dale C. Allison, Jr.
Edited by Tucker Ferda, Daniel Frayer-Griggs, and Nathan C. Johnson. Novum Testamentum Supplements 183. Leiden: Brill Academic Press.
Keith, Chris. “The Book of the Genesis of Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:1).” Pages 179–94 in
“To Recover What Has Been Lost”: Essays on Eschatology, Intertextuality, and Reception History in Honor of Dale C. Allison, Jr.
Edited by Tucker Ferda, Daniel Frayer-Griggs, and Nathan C. Johnson. Novum Testamentum Supplements 183. Leiden: Brill Academic Press.
Keith, Chris. “The Gospel Read, Sliced, and Burned.”
Early Christianity
12.1: 7–27.
Keith, Chris. “‘If John Knew Mark’: Critical Inheritance and Johannine Disagreements with Mark.” Pages 31–49 in
John’s Transformation of Mark
. Edited by Eve-Marie Becker, Helen K. Bond, and Catrin H. Williams. London: T&T Clark.
2020
Keith, Chris.
The Gospel as Manuscript: An Early History of the Jesus Tradition as Material Artifact
. New York: Oxford University Press.
Keith, Chris.
Jesus against the Scribal Elite: The Origins of the Conflict
. Rev. ed. London: T&T Clark.
Keith, Chris, Helen K. Bond, Christine Jacobi, and Jens Schröter, eds.
The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries
. 3 vols. London: T&T Clark.
2019
Crossley, James. “Class Conflict in Galilee and the Gospel Tradition: A Materialist Suggestion.”
Annali di Storia dell'Esegesi
36.1.
Walton, Steve, and Hannah Swithinbank, eds.
Poverty in the Early Church and Today: A Conversation
. London: T&T Clark.
2018
Crossley, James.
Cults, Martyrs, and Good Samaritans: Religion in Contemporary English Political Discourse
. London: Pluto Press/Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Crossley, James. “What the Bible Means—and Could Mean—in English Political Discourse.”
Practical Theology
11: 241–254.
2017
Crossley, James G. “Jesus im politischen und sozialen Umfeld seiner Zeit.” Pages 252–262 in
Jesus Handbuch
. Edited by Jens Schröter and Christine Jacobi with the assistance of Lena Nogossek. Die Theologen-Handbücher. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Keith, Chris. “Die Evangelien als »kerygmatische Erzählungen« über Jesus und die »Kriterien« in der Jesusforschung.” Pages 86–98 in
Jesus Handbuch
. Edited by Jens Schröter and Christine Jacobi with the assistance of Lena Nogossek. Die Theologen-Handbücher. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Thatcher, Tom, Chris Keith, Raymond F. Person, Jr., and Elsie S. Stern.
The Dictionary of the Bible in Ancient Media
. London: T&T Clark.
Walton, Steve, Paul R. Trebilco, and David W. J. Gill, eds.
The Urban World and the First Christians
. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
2016
Crossley, James G.
Harnessing Chaos: The Bible in English Political Discourse since 1968
. Rev. ed. Scriptural Traces 2/Library of New Testament Studies 516. London: T&T Clark.
Keith, Chris. “The Narratives of the Gospels and the Historical Jesus: Current Debates, Prior Debates, and the Goal of Historical Jesus Research.”
Journal for the Study of the New Testament
38.4: 426–55.
Keith, Chris. “The Competitive Textualization of the Jesus Tradition in John 20:30–31 and 21:24–25.”
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
78.2: 321–37.
Keith, Chris, and Loren T. Stuckenbruck, eds.
Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
. WUNT 2.417. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
2015
Crossley, James.
Jesus and the Chaos of History: Redirecting the Life of the Historical Jesus
. Biblical Refigurations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Crossley, James, and Jackie Harrison. “The Mediation of the Distinction of ‘Religion’ and ‘Politics’ by the UK Press on the Occasion of Pope Benedict XVI’s State Visit to the UK.”
Political Theology
14: 329–345.
Crossley, James, and Jackie Harrison. “Atheism, Christianity and the Press: Press Coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s 2010 State Visit to the UK.”
Implicit Religion
18: 77–105.
Keith, Chris. “The Oddity of the Reference to Jesus in Acts 4:13b.”
Journal of Biblical Literature
134.4: 791–811.
Keith, Chris. “Social Memory Theory and Gospels Research: The First Decade (Part Two).”
Early Christianity
6.4: 517–42.
Keith, Chris. “Social Memory Theory and Gospels Research: The First Decade (Part One).”
Early Christianity
6.3: 354–76.
2014
Keith, Chris.
Jesus against the Scribal Elite: The Origins of the Conflict
. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.
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