Publications
Select publications
Monographs include:
Spectres of John Ball: The Peasants’ Revolt in English Political History, 1381-2020 (Sheffield: Equinox, 2022)
Cults, Martyrs, and Good Samaritans: Religion in Contemporary English Political Discourse (London: Pluto; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Harnessing Chaos: The Bible in English Political Discourse since 1968 (updated edition; London and New York: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2016)
Jesus and the Chaos of History: Redirecting the Life of the Historical Jesus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism: Quests, Scholarship, Ideology (London: Routledge, 2012)
Jesus in an Age of Terror: Scholarly Projects for a New American Century (London: Equinox, 2008)
Why Christianity Happened: A Sociohistorical Account of Christian Origins (Louisville: WJK, 2006)
The Date of Mark’s Gospel: Insights from the Law in Earliest Christianity (London and New York: T&T Clark, 2004)
Popular/general audience include:
(with Robert J. Myles)
Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict (London: Zer0 Books, 2023)
The New Testament and Jewish Law: A Guide for the Perplexed (London and New York: T&T Clark, 2010)
Some recent articles and essays include:
“
A. L. Morton’s English Utopia and the Critical Study of Apocalypticism and Millenarianism,” Religions 14 (2023): 71–88
“John Ball and the 1381 English Uprising: From Rebellion to Revolutions,” in
Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements (eds. Warren S. Goldstein, Jean-Pierre Reed; London: Routledge, 2022), 71–88
“The Apocalypse and Political Discourse in an Age of COVID,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 44.1 (2021), 93–111
“The End of Apocalypticism: From Burton Mack’s Jesus to North American Liberalism,”
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 19.2 (2021), 1–20
“Class Conflict and Galilee at the Time of Jesus,” in
The Struggle over Class: Socioeconomic Analysis of Ancient Christian Texts (eds. G. Anthony Keddie, Michael Flexsenhar III, and Steven J. Friesen; Atlanta: SBL, 2021), 163–85
“Social Sciences, Social History, and Ideology,” in
The Cambridge Companion to the New Testament (ed. Patrick Gray; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 382–400
“Jesus and John Ball: Millenarian Prophets,” in
“To Recover What Has Been Lost”: Essays on Eschatology, Intertextuality, and Reception History in Honor of Dale C. Allison Jr (eds. Tucker S. Ferda, Daniel Frayer-Griggs, and Nathan C. Johnson; Leiden: Brill, 2021), 51–76
“Matthew and the Torah: Jesus as Legal Interpreter,” in
Matthew within Judaism: Israel and the Nations in the First Gospel (eds. Anders Runesson and Daniel Gurtner; SBL, Early Christian Literature Series, 2020), 29–52
“Contemporary Politics in Ancient Texts: Some Ways to Read Scholarship on Christian Origins as Ideological History,” in
Reading the Political in Jewish and Christian Texts (ed. Julia A. Snyder and Korinna Zamfir with Spencer Healey; Peeters: Leuven, 2020), 277–93
“John Ball and the Bible of Violence in the 1381 English Uprising,” in
Bible on Violence: A Thick Description (ed. Helen Paynter and Michael Spalione; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2020), 17–41
“Class Conflict in Galilee and the Gospel Tradition: A Materialist Suggestion,”
Annali di Storia dell’Esegesi 36 (2019)
“The First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Fate of Social-Scientific Approaches to the New Testament and Christian Origins,” in
The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship (ed. Andrew Mein, Nathan MacDonald, Matthew A. Collins; T&T Clark: London, 2019), 225–240
“Once Upon a Time in the West…The Fate of Religion, the Bible, and the Italian Western,” in
T&T Clark Companion to the Bible and Film (ed. Richard Walsh; T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2018), 151–162
“By What Authority Are You Doing These Things? A Brief History of the Bible in English Political Discourse from Margaret Thatcher to Jeremy Corbyn,”
Biblical Theology Bulletin 46 (2016), 144–153
“Borges’ God, Jonathan Meades’ Precursor,” in
Borges and the Bible (ed. Richard Walsh and Jay Twomey; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2015)
“Jesus, Healings and Mark 2:1-12: Forgiveness, a Release, or Bound Again to the Great Satan?,”
Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity (ed. Chris Keith and Loren T. Stuckenbruck; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015)
“The Meaning of Monty Python’s Jesus,” in
Jesus and Brian: Exploring the Historical Jesus and his Times via Monty Python’s Life of Brian (ed. Joan Taylor; London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2015)
(with 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 (2015), 329–45
(with Jackie Harrison) “Atheism, Christianity and the Press: Press coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s 2010 state visit to the UK,”
Implicit Religion 18 (2015), 77–105
“A ‘Very Jewish’ Jesus: Perpetuating the Myth of Superiority,”
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 13 (2014), 109–129
“Christian Origins, ‘the Land,’ and the Ideological Scholarly Apparatuses,” in R
eading the Bible in Israel: Archaeology, Biblical Studies and the Politics of Nation Building (eds. E. Pfoh and K.W. Whitelam; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013)
“Enoch Powell and the Gospel Tradition: A Search for a Homeland,” in
Holy Land as Homeland? Models for Constructing the Historic Landscapes of Jesus (ed. K.W. Whitelam; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012), 134–150
“Halakah and Mark 7.3: ‘with the hand in the shape of a fist,’”
New Testament Studies 58 (2012), 57–68
“Mark, Paul and the Question of Influences,” in
Paul and the Gospels (ed. M.F. Bird and J. Willitts; London and New York: T&T Clark/Continuum, 2011), 10–29
Etc… back to the first:
“Halakah and Mark 7.4: ‘…and beds’,”
Journal for the Study of the New Testament 25 (2003): 433–447
