my books on the apostle Paul:
Documents and Images for the Study of Paul (with Mark Reasoner; Fortress Press, 2010); purchase here.
The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire(Fortress Press, 2008); Download ARROGANCE OF NATIONS outline; purchase here.
Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle (Orbis, 1994; Fortress Press, 2006); Download Liberating Paul outline; purchase here.
The Rhetoric of Romans: Argumentative Constraint and Strategy and Paul's Dialogue with Judaism (Sheffield Academic Press, 1990; Fortress Press, 2005); purchase here.
essays
(on the apostle Paul and other topics in biblical studies):
2010
“Political Christology in Paul: Samples from Romans.” In a forthcoming volume of essays.
“The New Testament as a Text of Cultures.” In The Peoples’ Companion to the Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
“Marxism and the Postcolonial Interpretation of Paul.” In Paul and Postcolonialism, ed. Christopher D. Stanley. Paul in Critical Contexts. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
“Romans.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible. Ed. Michael Coogan. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“Ideological Constraint and the Christ-Event: A Marxist Response to the Philosophers’ Paul.” In Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical. Ed. Douglas Harink. Theopolitical Visions. Portland: Wipf & Stock.
Notes and Introduction to Romans, revised and expanded. The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 4th ed.. Ed. Michael D. Coogan. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2009
“Paul between Jerusalem and Rome: A Political Understanding of His Apostolate.” Presentation to the International Seminar on St. Paul, Ariccia, Italy, April 19-29, 2009. Published online at http://www.paulus.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=655&Itemid=478. Copyright © 2009 Società San Paolo.
“Liberating Paul: Pauline ‘Evangelization’ in the Shadow of Empire.” Presentation to the International Seminar on St. Paul, Ariccia, Italy (see above).
2008
“‘Blasphemed among the Nations’: Pursuing An Imperial ‘Intertextuality’ in Romans.” Pages 213-234 in As It Is Written: Studying Paul’s Use of Scripture. Ed. Stanley E. Porter and Christopher D. Stanley. Symposium 50. Atlanta: SBL.
“Paul and Empire.” In the Shadow of Empire: The Bible as Resistance. Ed. Richard A. Horsley. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press.
“The Bible and Empire” and study notes. In The Peoples’ Bible. Ed. Curtiss P. DeYoung, Wilda Gafney, Leticia Guardiola-Sáenz, and Frank M. Yamada. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
“A Famine of the Word of God: A Stringfellowian Reflection on the Present Situation.” In The Bible in the Public Square: Reading the Signs of the Times. Ed. Ellen B. Aitken, Jonathan Draper, and Cynthia Briggs Kittredge. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
2007
“Messianic Secret.” In Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus, ed. Craig A. Evans. London: Routledge.
“Political Formation in the Letter to the Romans.” In Character Ethics and the New Testament. Ed. Robert Brawley. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox.
“The Letter to the Romans.” In A Postcolonial New Testament Commentary, ed. R. S. Sugirtharajah and F. F. Segovia. Continuum.
2005
"Disciplining the Hope of the Poor in Ancient Rome.” Pages 177-200 in Christian Origins, ed. Richard A. Horsley. A People’s History of Christianity, vol. 1. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. German translation: “Die Hoffnung der Armen in Schranken halten,” pages 205-26 in Sozialgeschichte des Christentums, Bd. 1, Die ersten Christen (übersetzt Burghard Bock; Gütersloh: Güterslöher Verlagshaus, 2007).
“An American ‘Myth of Innocence’ and the Interpretation of Paul.” Biblical Interpretation 13:3, 239-49.
2004
"Strategies of Resistance and Hidden Transcripts in the Pauline Communities.” Pages 97-122 in Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance: Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul, ed. Richard A. Horsley. Semeia 48. Atlanta: Scholars Press.
“L’interpretation politique: Le cas d’apôtre Paul.” Pages 306-15 in Lectures nouvelles, ed. A. LaCocque.Paris: Bayard Presse.
“Situer l’Apôtre Paul à l’ombre de l’Empire: pratique apostolique, idéologie impériale et cérémonial impérial.” Pages 157-86 in Paul, une théologie en construction, ed. A. Dettwiler, J.-D. Kaestli, D. Marguerat. Le Monde de la Bible 51. Geneva: Labor et Fides.
“The Apostle Paul’s Self-Presentation as Anti-Imperial Performance.” Pages 67-88 in Paul and the Roman Imperial Order, ed. R. A. Horsley. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International.
2002
"The Letters of Paul: God’s Justice against Empire.” Pages 122-147 in The New Testament: Introducing the Way of Discipleship, ed. Wes Howard-Brook and Sharon Ringe. Maryknoll: Orbis.
“The ‘Patience of the Jews’: Strategies of Accommodation and Resistance.” Pages 32-41 in Pauline Conversations in Context: Essays in Honor of Calvin J. Roetzel, ed. Janice Capel Anderson, Philip Sellew, and Claudia Setzer. JSNTSup 221. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
1999
“Paul and the Politics of Empire: Problems and Prospects.” Pages 17-39 in Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation, ed. R. A. Horsley. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International.
1997
"Asceticism among ‘Weak’ and ‘Strong’ in Romans.” Pages 231-51 in Asceticism in the New Testament, ed. Leif E. Vaage and Vincent Wimbush. London and New York: Routledge.
“The Anti-Imperial Message of the Cross.” Pages 167-83 in Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society, ed. Richard A. Horsley. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International. Excerpted from Liberating Paul (see above), chapter 4.
“Romans 13:1-7 in the Context of Imperial Propaganda.” Pages 184-204 in Paul and Empire, ed. Richard A. Horsley. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International.
1996
"Figure and Ground in the Interpretation of Romans 9—11.” Pages 371-89 in The Theological Interpretation of Scripture: Classic and Contemporary Readings, ed. Stephen E. Fowl. Blackwell Readings in Modern Theology. Cambridge, MA and Oxford: Blackwell.
1993
“Violence as a Problem in Post-Holocaust Theology.” Vertigo.
“Paul and the Lethality of the Law: A Response to Robert Hamerton-Kelly’s Sacred Violence.” Foundations & Facets Forum 9:3-4, 237-56.
“The Silence of the Messiah: The Function of ‘Messianic Secret’ Motifs across the Synoptics.” Pages 604-22 in SBL Seminar Papers 1993, ed. Kent Richards. Atlanta: Scholars Press.
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