Selected Articles by Jerome H. Neyrey
 
 
 

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New Testament: General


"Who Is Poor in the New Testament?," Scripture from Scratch. October 2002.

"Prayer, In Other Words: A Social Science Model for Interpreting Prayers."  Pp. 349-80 in John J. Pilch, ed., Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible: Essays by the Context Group in Honor of Bruce J. Malina. Leiden: Brill, 2001

"Miracles, In Other Words: Social Science Perspectives on Healing." Pp. 19-56 in John C. Cavadini, ed., Miracles in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.

"Clean/Unclean, Pure/Polluted and Holy/Profane." In The Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation, 80-104. R. L. Rohrbaugh, ed. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1996.

"Meals, Food and Tablefellowship." In The Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation, 159-82. R. L. Rohrbaugh, ed. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1996.
 

The Gospel of Mark
 
"Questions, Chreai, and Challenges to Honor. The Interface of Rhetoric and Culture in Mark's Gospel." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 60 (1998):657-81.

"'It Was Out of Envy That They Handed Jesus Over' (Mark 15:10): The Anatomy of Envy and the Gospel of Mark." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 69 (1998):15-56.

"A Symbolic Approach to Mark 7." Forum 4,3 (1988):63-91.

"The Idea of Purity in Mark's Gospel." Semeia 35 (1986):91-128.

 

The Gospel of Matthew

"Deception, Ambiguity, and Revelation: Matthew’s Judgmental Scenes in Social-Science Perspective." Pp. 199-230 in eds. Alan Avery-Peck, Daniel Harrington and Jacob Neusner, When Judaism and Christianity Began. Leiden: Brill, 2004.

"Jesus, Gender and the Gospel of Matthew." Pp. 43-66 in New Testament Masculinities, Semeia 45 (2003).

"Loss of Wealth, Loss of Family and Loss of Honor: A Cultural Interpretation of the Original Four Makarisms." In Modelling Early Christianity: Social-Scientific Studies of the New Testament in Its Context, 139-58. P. F. Esler, ed. London: Routledge, 1995.


Luke–Acts

"Lost in Translation: Did It Matter if Christians 'Thanked' God or 'Gave God Glory'"? CBQ 71 (2009) 1-23.

"'Teaching You in Public and from House to House' (Acts 20:20): Unpacking a Cultural Stereotype," JSNT 26.1 (2003) 69-102.

"Luke's Social Location of Paul: Cultural Anthropology and the Status of Paul in Acts." History, Literature, and Society in the Book of Acts, 251-79. B. Witherington III. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996.

"Acts 17, Epicureans and Theodicy: A Study in Stereotypes." In Greeks, Romans, and Christians: Essays Honor of Abraham J. Malherbe, 118-34. D. L. Balch and W. A. Meeks. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990.




The Gospel of John  

"'I Am the Door' (John 10:7, 9): Jesus the Broker in the Fourth Gospel," CBQ 69 (2007) 271-291.

"In Conclusion...John 12 as a Rhetorical Peroratio," BTB 37 (2007) 101-13.

"Spaces and Places, Whence and Whither, Homes and Rooms: 'Territoriality' in the Fourth Gospel," BTB 32 (2002) 60-75.

"Telling Time in the Fourth Gospel" (with Eric Rowe). Hervormde Teologiese Studies 64 (2008): 291-322.

"Role and Status in the Fourth Gospel: Cutting Through Confusion." Pp. 36-56 in Calvin J. Roetzel and Robert L. Foster, The Impartiality of God. Essays in Biblical Studies in Honor of Jouette M. Bassler. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2007.

"Encomium versus Vituperation: Contrasting Portraits of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel, JBL 126 (2007): 529-52.

"Worship in the Fourth Gospel: A Cultural Interpretation of John 14-17," Biblical Theology Bulletin 36 (2006): 107-17.

"The 'Noble' Shepherd in John 10: Cultural And Rhetorical Background." Journal of Biblical Literature 120 (2001): 267-91.

"'He Must Increase, I Must Decrease' (John 3:30): A Cultural and Social Interpretation." Co-Authored with Richard L. Rohrbaugh. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 63 (2001) 464-83.

"The Sociology of Secrecy and the Fourth Gospel." In What Is John? Vol. II: Literary and Social Readings of the Fourth Gospel, 79-109. F. Segovia, ed. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998.

"Despising the Shame of the Cross: Honor and Shame in the Johannine Passion Narrative." Semeia 69 (1996):113-37.

"The Trials (Forensic) and Tribulations (Honor Challenges) of Jesus: John 7 in Social Science Perspective." Biblical Theology Bulletin 26 (1996):107-24.

"The Footwashing in John 13:6-11: Transformation Ritual or Ceremony?" In The Social World of the First Christians: Essays in Honor of Wayne A. Meeks, 198-213. L. M. White and O. L. Yarbrough. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.

"What's Wrong With This Picture? John 4, Cultural Stereotypes of Women, and Public and Private Space." Biblical Theology Bulletin 24 (1994):77-91.

"'I Said: You are Gods': Psalm 82 and John 10." Journal of Biblical Literature 108 (1989):647-63.

"Jesus the Judge: Forensic Process in John 8,21-59." Biblica 68 (1987):509-41.

"'My Lord and My God': the Divinity of Jesus in John's Gospel." Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 1986:152-71

"Jacob Traditions and the Interpretation of John 4:10-26." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 41 (1979):419-437.
 
 

Paul's Letters


"The Social Location of Paul: Education as the Key." Pp. 126-64 in David B. Gowler, L. Gregory Bloomquist, and Duane F. Watson, eds., Fabrics of Discourse. Essays in Honor of Vernon K. Robbins. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2003.

"Bewitched in Galatia: Paul in Social Science Perspective." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 50 (1988):72-100.

"Body Language in 1 Corinthians: The Use of Anthropological Models for Understanding Paul and His Opponents." Semeia 35 (1986):129-70.

"Witchcraft Accusations in 2 Cor 10—13: Paul in Social Science Perspective." Listening 21 (1986):160-70.

 

Miscellanea  

"Call and Commission in the New Testament." Horizon. Journal of the National Religious Vocation Conference 31 (2006) 25-30.

"God, Benefactor and Patron: The Major Cultural Model for Interpreting the Deity in Greco-Roman Antiquity." JSNT 27 (2005) 465-492.

"'First', 'Only', 'One of a Few', and 'No One Else': The Rhetoric of Uniqueness and the Doxologies in 1 Timothy." Biblica 86 (2005) 59-87.

"Josephus' Vita and the Encomium: A Native Model of Personality." Journal for the Study of Judaism 25 (1994): 177-206.

"'Without Beginning of Days or End of Life' (Hebrews 7:3): Topos for a True Deity." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 53 (1991):439-55.

"Mary, Maid and Mother in Art and Literature," Biblical Theology Bulletin 20 (1990): 65-75