Chair, Department of Biblical Studies
Professor of New Testament
Ph.D., New Testament Exegesis, University of Aberdeen
M.A., New Testament, Harding University Graduate School of Religion
M.Th., Harding University Graduate School of Religion
B.A., Harding University
Email
Phone: 706-385-1099
Office hours: Mon., 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Tues., 10 a.m. to noon
Courses Taught:
The Life of Jesus Christ
Gospel of John
Acts
Greek
Publications:
“‘Miracle Working THEIOI ANDRES’ in Hellenism (and Hellenistic Judaism).” In The Miracles of Jesus, pp. 185-218. Edited by D. Wenham and C. Blomberg. Gospel Perspectives, 6. Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1986.
Theios Aner and the Markan Miracle Traditions: A Critique of the Theios Aner Concept as an Interpretative Background of the Miracle Traditions Used by Mark. Wissenschafliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 40. Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1991.
“Divine Man” and “Miracles and Miracle Stories.” In Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. Edited by I. Howard Marshall, et al. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1992.
“The Identity of the ‘Women’ in 1 Tim. 3:11.” In Essays on Women in Earliest Christianity, pp. 303-19. Edited by Carroll D. Osburn. Joplin, Missouri: College Press, 1993.
“The Miracles of Jesus.” In Studying the Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the State of Current Research, pp. 353-94. Edited by Bruce Chilton and Craig A. Evans. New Testament Tools and Studies, 19. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994.
“Stephen.” In Dictionary of the Later New Testament. Edited by Ralph Martin and Peter Davids. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997.
“The Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts: A Survey.” In Leaven 5 (1997): 9-13.
“Was Jesus Really Human?” In Theology Matters. Edited by Gary Holloway et al. Joplin, Missouri: College Press, 1998.
“Homo et Deus: Jesus in the Gospels.” Stone-Campbell Journal 4 (2001):187-204.
“Divine Man.” In The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. Edited by Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, et al. Nashville: Abingdon, 2006.
"Review Article: Evangelicalism and the Stone-Campbell Movement, Vol. 2: Engaging Basic Christian Doctrine." Stone-Campbell Journal 9 (2006): 253-56.
“Divine Man.” In Dictionary of the Historical Jesus. Edited by Craig Evans. New York: Routledge, 2008.
“Aretalogy.” In vol. 2 of The Dictionary of the Bible and Its Reception. Edited by Hans-Josef Klauck, et al. 30 vols. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009.
"Liberation, New Covenant, and the Kingdom of God: A Soteriological Reading of the Gospel According to Mark," Stone-Campbell Journal 12 (2009): 219-33.
"The Miracles of Jesus." In The Cambridge
Companion to Miracles, 113-30. Edited by Graham H. Twelftree.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
"Jesus' Healing of a Paralyzed Man (2. 1-12): A Quadrigal Reading." Leaven: A Journal of Christian Ministry 19 (2011) 43-48.
"The Miracles of Jesus Viewed from Above." Stone-Campbell Journal, forthcoming.
Professional Associations:
Society of Biblical Literature
Institute for Biblical Research
Research Interests:
The Gospel of Mark
The Miracles of Jesus
The Gospel of John
The Historical Jesus
New Testament Christology