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MONOGRAPHS

Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Canon. Scriptural Traces: Critical Perspectives on the Reception and Influence of the Bible 33/Library of New Testament Studies 673. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark. 2024

The Great Controversy: The Individual’s Struggle between Good and Evil in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and in Their Jewish and Christian Contexts. Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus 106. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2015

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Excision as Exorcism: Some Possible Demonic roots for Jesus’s Sayings in Mark 9:43–48.” Novum Testamentum. (accepted 11 September 2024)

A Bad Taste in My Mouth: Spirits as Embodied Senses in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies Special edition “What the Body Knows: Embodied Senses & Meaning-Creation in the Biblical Imagination” 4.1 (2022): 17–38.

In Defence of New Testament Satanologies: A Response to Farrar and Williams.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 44.3 (2022): 435–451.

The Haunting of Jesus: Reading Mark Through the Gothic Mode.” Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies 3.2 (2021): 63–86.

“Teaching the New Testament as an Expanded Universe.” Co-author Allen Wilson. Ancient Jew Review (August 16, 2021).

Joseph the Good and Delicate Man. Masculinity in The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.” Lectio Difficilior, 2021:1.

Seeing is Believing: The Digital Bible and Bible Verses Online.” Spes Christiana 31 (2020): 123–152.

Manifesting Evil: Demons and Physical Monstrosity in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 29 (2019): 132-145.

Nostalgia, Novelty, and the Subversion of Authority in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.” Transformative Works and Cultures 31 (2019).

ARTICLES IN EDITED VOLUMES

The Bible and My Little Pony.” Bibles in Popular Cultures. Edited by Rebekah Welton and Zanne Domoney-Lyttle. Scriptural Traces. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2024: 85–102

My Body Made Me Do It: Noninvasive Possession in early Christianity.” Ideas of Possession: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives. Edited by Nicole Bauer and Andrew Doole. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024: 73–85.

Tower of Babel.” Biblical Themes in Science Fiction. Edited by Nicole L. Tilford and Kelly J. Murphy. Bible and Its Reception 6. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2023: 35–56.

Demons and Vices in Early Christianity.” Demons in Early Judaism and Christianity: Characters and Characteristics. Edited by Hector Patmore and Josef Lössl. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 113. Leiden: Brill, 2022: 130–154.

DICTIONARY/ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.” Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, 2022.

 

Memberships

Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Full member

Studiosorum Novi Testamenti Conventus, Full member

British New Testament Society, Member, Treasurer (2019–present)

 

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