List of Publications, Jeffrey A. Trumbower

Rescue for the Dead: The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity.  Oxford Studies in Historical Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)

Born From Above: The Anthropology of the Gospel of John. Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie 29 (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1992)

ARTICLES

"Apocalypse of Peter 14,1-4 in Relation to Confessors' Intercessions for the Non-Christian Dead," in E. J. Yarnold, ed., Studia Patristica  36, vol. 3 (Leuven: Peeters, 2001), 302-307.

"The Acts of Paul and Thecla   28-31" in Mark Kiley, ed., Prayer from Alexander to Constantine: A Critcal Anthology    (London and New York: Routledge Press, 1997), 280-84.

"Traditions Common to the Primary Adam and Eve Books and On the Origin of the World (NHC II.5)" Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha  14 (1996), 43-54.

"The Role of Malachi in the Career of John the Baptist" in C.A. Evans and W.R. Stegner, eds., The Gospels and the Scriptures of Israel  (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994), 28-41

"The Historical Jesus and the Speech of Gamaliel (Acts 5:35-39)," New Testament Studies  39 (1993): 500-17

"Hermes Trismegistos," in David Noel Freedman, ed. The Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992) 3:156-57

"Origen's Exegesis of John 8:19-53: The Struggle with Heracleon over the Idea of Fixed Natures,"  Vigiliae Christianae   43 (1989): 138-54

"Editor's Bookshelf: Recent Literature on Philemon,"  Journal of Religion  68 (1988): 203

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Eric Rebillard, Religion et Sepulture: L'Eglise, les vivants et les morts dans l'Antiquite tardive (Paris: Editions de l'ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, 2003), Journal of Early Christian Studies 13 (2005), pp. 131-132.

Review of James F. McGrath, John's Apologetic Christology (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Journal of Religion 83 (2003), 119-120.

Review of Mark A. Matson, In Dialogue with Another Gospel? The Influence of the Fourth Gospel on the Passion Narrative of the Gospel of Luke (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001), Journal of Religion 82 (2002), 620-621.

Review of Henry Claman, Jewish Images in the Christian Church (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2000),  Journal of Early Christian Studies 10 (2002), 146-147.

Review of Mark Edwards, Martin Goodwin, and Simon Price, eds.,  Apologetics in the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews, and Christians  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999),  Journal of Early Christian Studies  9 (2001): 140-41.

Review of Howard Clark Kee and Lynn C. Cohick, eds.,   Evolution of the Synagogue  (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1999),  Journal of Early Christian Studies  8 (2000): 469.

Review of Graham Stanton and Guy Stroumsa, eds., Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Christianity and Judaism  (Cambridge University Press, 1998),  Journal of Early Christian Studies  7 (1999): 326-27.

Review of Glen Bowersock,  Martyrdom and Rome   (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Journal of Religion  77 (1997): 128-29.

Review of Elaine Pagels, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent   (New York: Random House, 1988), Journal of Religion  70 (1990): 80-81

Review of Christopher Tuckett,  Nag Hammadi and the Gospel Tradition  (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1986),  Journal of Religion  68 (1988): 449-50

"Wilderness Rebellions in Stephen's Speech and the Damascus Covenant," 2004 Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, November, 2004

"Sacred History in the Epistle of Barnabas: Extending the Logic of Jewish Sectarianism," 14th International Conference on Patristics, Oxford, England, August, 2003

"St. Augustine and the Damned: Late Antique Culture in Transition," Invited Lecture at the University of Vermont, sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Religious Studies, February, 2002 

"Thecla's Prayer for Falconilla in its Cultural and Theological Contexts," Harvard Divinity School Symposium: "Jewish Pseudepigrapha or Christian Apocrypha?"  Cambridge, MA, December, 2001

"Greek Interpretations of the Posthumous Salvation of Pagan Falconilla from The Acts of Paul and Thecla," Annual Meeting, North American Patristics Society, Chicago, May, 2001

"Apocalypse of Peter 14:1-4 and its Relation to Confessors' Prayers for the Non-Christian Dead," 13th International Conference on Patristics, Oxford, England, August, 1999

"Augustine’s Rejection of Posthumous Salvation: Social Contexts and Implications," 1997 Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature

"Early Christian Prayer for the Non-Christian Dead: Practice and Theory," 1996 Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature

"Traditions Common to the Primary Adam and Eve Books and On the Origin of the World, NHC II,5," 1994 Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature

"Women as Church Leaders in the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature," Symposium on Gender Issues in Church and Society, St. Michael's College, October, 1994

"The Sea Miracle Tradition in the Prophets," 1993 Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature

"Critical Biblical Scholarship and Christian Theology: Reflections on their Troubled Relationship," Symposium on Religion and Science, St. Michael's College, October, 1993

"Text-Actor-Text: The Influence of Biblical Texts on Theudas and John the Baptist," 1991 Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature

"Luke and E. P. Sanders: Jesus as Apocalyptic Prophet," 1990 New England Regional Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature

"Predestination by Election or Origin? The Gospel of John Compared with 1QH, Romans, and the Gospel of Truth from Nag Hammadi," 1988 Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature

"Origen's Exegesis of John 8:19-53: The Struggle with Heracleon over the Idea of Fixed Natures," Midwest Patristics Seminar, Chicago, November, 1986

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