JEROME
HENRY NEYREY, S.J.
Department of Theology
240 Malloy Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
http://www.nd.edu/~jneyrey1
neyrey.1@nd.edu
DATE OF BIRTH
January 5, 1940
CURRENT
MINISTERIAL STATUS |
CURRENT
PROFESSIONAL STATUS |
CURRENT
ECCLESIASTICAL STATUS |
Roman Catholic Priest |
Professor of New Testament Studies |
Professor Ordinarius |
of the Society of Jesus |
Department of Theology |
Pontifical Theological Faculties |
Ordained: June 5, 1970 |
University of Notre Dame |
|
EDUCATION
| S.T.L. |
1987 |
Weston
School of Theology |
| Ph.D. |
1977 |
Yale
University |
| M.Th. |
1972 |
Regis
College, Toronto |
| M.Div. |
1970 |
Regis
College, Toronto |
| Ph.L. |
1964 |
St.
Louis University |
| M.A. |
1964 |
St.
Louis University |
| B.A. |
1963 |
St.
Louis University |
OFFICES
AND APPOINTMENTS
Executive
Secretary:
The
Context Group: Project on the Bible in Its Cultural Environment, 1989--
Program
Committee:
Catholic
Biblical Association, 1993-99
Chair:
1996-99
President:
New
England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature, 1990
Executive
Committee:
Society
of Biblical Literature (New England Region) 1986-89
Executive
Committee:
Catholic
Biblical Association, 1983-1985
MEMBERSHIP
IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
The
Context Group: Project on the Bible in Its Cultural Environment,
Charter
Member, 1989--
Westar
Institute, Social Facets Seminar
Charter
Member, 1985-89
Catholic
Biblical Association, 1973--
Society
of Biblical Literature, 1973--
EDITORIAL
CONTRIBUTION
Associate
Editor:
Journal
for the Study of the New Testament,
1997–2003
Associate
Editor:
Hervormde
Teologiese Studies,
1995--
Associate
Editor:
Catholic
Biblical Quarterly,
1994–2002
Associate
Editor:
Biblical
Theology Bulletin,
1986--
Associate
Editor:
Catholic
Biblical Quarterly,
1983‑1991
Associate
Editor:
New
Testament Abstracts,
1977-1981
PUBLICATIONS
A.
BOOKS:
A
Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Gospel of John
Forthcoming
from Cambridge University Press, 2005
Render
to God: New Testament Understandings of the Divine
Fortress
Press, 2004
Honor
and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew
Westminster/John
Knox, 1998
Portraits
of Paul: An Archaeology of Ancient Personality. With Bruce Malina.
Westminster/John
Knox, 1996
2
Peter and Jude
Anchor
Bible Commentary 37 C. Doubleday, 1993
The
Social World of Luke-Acts. Models for Interpretation. Editor and Contributor
Stephen
Hendrickson, Inc., 1991
Paul,
In Other Words. A Cultural Reading of His Letters
Westminster/John
Knox, 1990
An
Ideology of Revolt: John's Christology in Social-Science Perspective
Fortress
Press, 1988
Calling
Jesus Names, with Bruce
Malina
Polebridge
Press, 1988
The
Resurrection Stories
Michael
Glazier, Inc., 1988. Reprinted Manila: St. Paul
The
Passion Narrative in St. Luke
Paulist
Press, 1985
Christ
is Community
Michael
Glazier, Inc., 1985
First
Timothy, Second Timothy, Titus, James, First Peter, Second Peter, Jude
Collegeville
Bible Commentary, Vol. 9, 1983. Translated into Italian as Lettere A Timoteo,
Tito Lettere di Giacomo, Pietro, Giuda. Biblia per Tutti vol 34. Brescia:
Editrice Queriniana
B.
ARTICLES:
“Social-Scientific
Criticism of the New Testament.” Forthcoming in David E. Aune’s
Blackwells
Methods in Reading the New Testament
“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
“Deception,
Lying, Secrecy, Hypocrisy, Ambiguity and Revelation: The Cultural Character
of
Divine
Judgment in Matthew.” Pp. 199-230 in eds. Alan Avery-Peck, Daniel Harrington
and Jacob Neusner, When Judaism and Christianity Began (Leiden: Brill,
2004)
“The
Social Location of Paul: How Paul Was Educated and What He Could Compose as
Indices
of His Social Location.” 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
“Jesus,
Gender and the Gospel of Matthew.” Pp. 43-66 in New Testament Masculinities
Semeia 45 2003
“‘Teaching
You in Public and from House to House’ (Acts 20:20): Unpacking a Cultural
Stereotype,”
Journal for the Study of the New Testament 26 (2003) 69-102
“Spaced
Out in John: Territoriality in the Fourth Gospel.” Hervormde Teologiese
Studies
58
(2002) 633-63
“Who
is Poor in the New Testament,” Scripture from Scratch October 2002
“Spaces
and Places, Whence and Whither, Homes and Rooms: ‘Territoriality’ in the Fourth
Gospel,”
Biblical Theological Bulletin 32 (2002) 60-74
“'He
must increase, I must decrease' (John 3:30): Cultural and Social Interpretation.”
With
Richard
L. Rohrbaugh. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 63 (2001) 464-83
“The
‘Noble’ Shepherd in John 10: Cultural and Rhetorical Background.” Journal
of Biblical
Literature 120 (2001) 267-91
“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: E. J. Brill,
2001
"Miracles,
In Other Words: Social Science Perspectives on Healings."Pp 19-56 in
John C.
Cavadini,
ed., Miracles in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. Notre Dame: University
of Notre Dame Press, 1999
“Hebrews.”
Pp. 338-54 in Gail O’Day and David Peterson, eds., The Access Bible.
New York:
Oxford
University Press, 1999
“James.”Pp.
355-61 in Gail O’Day and David Peterson, eds., The Access Bible. New
York:
Oxford
University Press, 1999
“1
Peter.” Pp. 362-68 in Gail O’Day and David Peterson, eds., The Access Bible.
New York:
Oxford
University Press, 1999
2
Peter.” Pp.
369-74 in Gail O’Day and David Peterson, eds., The Access Bible. New
York:
Oxford
University Press, 1999
“Jude.”
Pp.
386-88 in Gail O’Day and David Peterson, eds., The Access Bible. New
York:
Oxford
University Press, 1999
“Jude.”
Pp. 636-37 in John N. Hayes, ed., Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation.
Nashville:
Abingdon,
1999
“Peter,
Second Letter of.” Pp.271-73 in John N. Hayes, ed., Dictionary of Biblical
Interpretation. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999
“Questions,
Chreiai, and Challenges to Honor. The Interface of Rhetoric and Culture in
Mark’s
Gospel,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 60 (1998) 657-81
“The
Sociology of Secrecy and the Fourth Gospel.” Pp. 79-109 in Fernando Segovia,
ed.,
What
is John? Volume II. Literary and Social Readings of the Fourth Gospel. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998
“‘It
Was Out of Envy that They Handed Jesus Over’ (Mark
15:10):The Anatomy of Envy and
the
Gospel of Mark.” Co-Authored with Anselm C. Hagedorn. Journal for the Study
of the New Testament 69 (1998) 15-56
"Clean/Unclean,
Pure/Polluted and Holy/Profane." Pp. 80-104 In Richard L. Rohrbaugh,
ed.,
The
Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996
"Meals,
Food and Table Fellowship.” Pp.159-82 in Richard L. Rohrbaugh, ed., The
Social
Sciences
and New Testament Interpretation.
Peabody,
MA: Hendrickson, 1996
“Peter,.”
“Peter, the First Letter,” “Peter, the Second Letter.” Pp. 833-39 in Paul
Achtemeier,
ed.,
Harper Collins Bible Dictionary. Rev. ed. San Francisco: Harper, 1996
“The
Trials (Forensic) and Tribulations (Honor Challenges) of Jesus: John 7 in
Social Science
Perspective,”
Biblical Theology Bulletin 26 (1996) : 107-24
"Despising
the Shame of the Cross: Honor and Shame in the Johannine Passion Narrative,"
Semeia 69 (1996): 113‑37
“Luke’s
Social Location of Paul: Cultural Anthropology and the Status of Paul in Acts.”
Pp.
251-79 in Ben Witherington, III, ed., History, Literature, and Society
in the Book of Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996
“Ancestors."
Pp 22‑24 in C. Stuhlmuller, ed., The Collegeville Pastoral Dictionary
of Biblical
Theology. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1996
"Community."
Pp. 150‑52 in C. Stuhlmuller, ed., The Collegeville Pastoral Dictionary
of
Biblical
Theology. Collegeville:
Liturgical Press, 1996
"Family."
Pp. 308‑11 in C. Stuhlmuller, ed., The Collegeville Pastoral Dictionary
of Biblical
Theology. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1996
"Father."
Pp. 315‑17 in C. Stuhlmuller, ed., The Collegeville Pastoral Dictionary
of Biblical
Theology. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1996
“Matthew’s
Gospel in the Sundays in Ordinary Time. Sundays 11-Christ the King,” Pastoral
Liturgy (Perth: Australia) 26/4-5
(1996): 3-5 and 20-67
"Loss
of Wealth, Loss of Family and Loss of Honor: A Cultural Interpretation of
the Original
Four
Makarisms." Pp. 139-158 in Philip F. Esler, ed., Modelling Early Christianity.
Social-scientific Studies of the New Testament in Its Context. London:
Routledge, 1995
“Matthew’s
Gospel in the Sundays in Ordinary Time. Sundays 2-7,” Pastoral Liturgy
(Perth:
Australia)
26/1 (1995): 42-56
“Jesus
Teaches ‘the Way’ on His Way to Jerusalem. Sundays in Ordinary Time. Sundays
24-34,
Pastoral
Liturgy (Perth: Australia) 25/5 (1995): 3-37
“Jesus
Teaches ‘the Way’ on His Way to Jerusalem. Sundays in Ordinary Time. Sundays
12-23,
Pastoral
Liturgy (Perth: Australia) 25/4 (1995): 4-11, 18-40
"Ascension,"
"Beelzebul," "Brothers of Jesus," "James," "Jude,"
"Peter," The Twelve."
In
Richard McBrien, Encyclopedia of Catholicism. San Francisco: Harper,
1995
"The
Footwashing in John 13:6-11; Transformation Ritual or Ceremony?" Pp.
198-213 in
L.
Michael White and O. Larry Yarbrough, eds., The Social World of the First
Christians. Essays in Honor of Wayne A. Meeks. Minneapolis: Fortress,
1995
"The
Location is Everything. The Craft of Mark's Gospel. Sundays 22-34,"
Pastoral Liturgy
(Perth,
Australia) 24/2 ( 1994): 2-39
"The Location
is Everything. The Craft of Mark's Gospel. Sundays 11-21," Pastoral
Liturgy
(Perth,
Australia) 24/2 ( 1994): 3-8
"Josephus'
Vita and the Encomium: A Native Model of Personality," Journal
for the Study
of
Judaism 25,2 (1994):
177-206
"
What's Wrong With This Picture? John 4, Cultural Stereotypes of Women, and
Public and
Private
Space," Biblical Theology Bulletin 24 (1994): 77-91. Reprinted
in Amy-Jill Levine, ed., A Feminist Companion to John. Volume I (Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press, 2003) 98-125
"Clothing,"
"Deception," "Dyadism," "Equivocation," "Group
Orientation," "Nudity," and
"Wholeness"
in Bible Social Values and Their Meaning. A Handbook. John Pilch and
Bruce Malina, eds. Hendrickson, Inc. 1993
"Jesus
the Peasant," The Catholic World Vol 236/No. 1411 (1993): 19-24
"'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
"Acts
17, Epicureans and Theodicy: A Study in Stereotypes." Pp. 118-34 in David
Balch and
Wayne
Meeks, eds., Greeks, Romans, and Christians. Essays in Honor of Abraham
J. Malherbe. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990
"2
Peter," The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice Hall, 1989
"Jude,"
The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall,
1989
"'I
Said: You are Gods': Psalm 82 and John 10," Journal of Biblical Literature
108 (1989) 647-63
"Ascension,"
"Gethsemane," "Healing and Exorcism," "Pilate and
Barabbas," "Raising of
Lazarus,"
"Simon" and Samaria," "Temple Debate and Prophecies,"
and "The Transfiguration," Mysteries of the Bible, Readers' Digest
Books, 1988
"A
Symbolic Approach to Mark 7," Forum 4,3 (1988) 63-91
"Unclean,
Common, Polluted, Taboo," Forum 4,4 (1988) 72-82
"Bewitched
in Galatia: Paul in Social Science Perspective," Catholic Biblical
Quarterly
50 (1988) 72-100
"Jesus
the Judge: Forensic Process in John 8:21-59," Biblica 68 (1987)
509-42
"Hope
Against Hope (Rom 4:17)," The Way 27 (1987) 264-273
"Interpretation
of Scripture in the Life of the Church." Pp 33-46 in Lucien Richard,
ed., Vatican
II.
The Unfinished Agenda.
New York: Paulist, 1987)
"The
Idea of Purity in Mark's Gospel," Semeia 35 (1986) 91-128
"Body
Language in 1 Corinthians: The Use of Anthropological Models for Understanding
Paul
and His Opponents," Semeia 35 (1986) 129-170
"Witchcraft
Accusations in 2 Cor 10-13: Paul in Social Science Perspective," Listening
21
(1986) 160-170
"Social
Science Modeling and the New Testament," Biblical Theology Bulletin
26
(1986) 107-110
"'My
Lord and My God': The Divinity of Jesus in John's Gospel," Society
of Biblical Literature
Seminar
Papers 1986 152-171
"2
Peter," "Jude," "Sister," and "Brother"
Harper's Dictionary of the Bible, 1985
"First
Peter and Converts: A New Place and a New Story," The Bible Today
22 (1984) 13-18
"The
Forensic Defense Speech and Paul's Trial Speeches in Act 22-26: Form and Function,"
Pp.
210-24 in Charles H. Talbert, ed., Luke-Acts New Perspectives from the
Society of Biblical Literature Seminar. New York: Crossroads, 1984
"Jesus'
Address to the Women of Jerusalem (Lk 23:27-31): A Prophetic Judgment
Oracle,"
New Testament Studies 29 (1983) 74-86
"The
Jacob Allusions in John 1:51," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 44
(1982) 586-605
"The
Thematic Use of Isa 42:1-4 in Matthew 12," Biblica 63 (1982) 457-473
"John
III – A Debate over Johannine Epistemology and Christology," Novum
Testamentum
23
(1981) 115-127
"Decision
Making in the Early Church: The Case of the Canaanite Woman," Science
et
Esprit 33 (1981) 373-378
"The
Apologetic Use of the Transfiguration in 2 Peter 1:16-21," Catholic Biblical
Quarterly
42 (1980) 504-519
"Eschatology
in 1 Thessalonians: The Theological Factor in 1:9-10; 2:4-5; 3:11-13; 4:6
and
4:13-18,"
Society of Biblical Literature Abstract and Seminar Papers 1980 157-172
"The
Form and Background of the Polemic in 2 Peter," Journal of Biblical
Literature
99
(1980) 407-431
"The
Absence of Jesus' Emotions: The Lukan Redaction of Lk 22:39-46,"
Biblica 61 (1980) 153-171; a Spanish translation
of this appeared as "La Ausencia de Emociones en Jesus: motivo redaccional
lucano (Lc 22, 39-46)," Selecciones de Teologia 81 (1982) 70-80
"Jacob
Traditions and the Interpretation of John 4:10-26," Catholic Biblical
Quarterly
41
(1979) 419-437
"Julius
Victor, Ars Rhetorica," in Abraham Malherbe's "Ancient Epistolography
Theorists,"
Ohio
Journal of Religious Studies
5 (1977) 58-61
C. INVITED PAPERS
Boston
Theological Institute:
1990,
1987, 1980, 1977
Catholic
Biblical Association:
2002,
1996, 1992, 1991, 1989, 1988, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1977
Context
Group:
2002,
2001, 2000, 1999, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991
Nordisk
Forskerkonferanse: Oslo, Norway
1989
Society
of Biblical Literature (New England Region):
1991,
1990, 1988, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980
Society
of Biblical Literature (National Convention):
2001,
2000, 1999,1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1990, 1989,
1988,
1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1982, 1980, 1979
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