New Testament Bibliography #2: The Gospels

Daniel J. Harrington, What Are They Saying About Mark? (New York: Paulist Press, 2005). The place to start to get the lay of the land.

Ernest E. Best, Mark: The Gospel as Story, rev. ed. (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2000).

Christopher Bryan, A Preface to Mark: Notes on the Gospel in Its Literary and Cultural Settings (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Timothy R. Carmody, The Gospel of Mark: Question by Question (New York: Paulist Press, 2010).

J. Keith Elliott, eds., The Language and Style of the Gospel of Mark, New Testament Studies 71 (Leiden: Brill, 1993).

Robert M. Fowler, Let the Reader Understand. Reader-Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1991).

Joel B. Green, “The Gospel According to Mark,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels, ed. Stephen C. Barton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 139-157.

Richard A. Horsley, Hearing the Whole Story: The Politics of Plot in Mark’s Gospel (Louisville, KY: Westminster/ John Knox, 2001).

Hugh M. Humphrey, ‘He is Risen!’: A New Reading of Mark’s Gospel (New York: Paulist, 1992)

Donald Juel, The Gospel of Mark, Interpreting Biblical Texts (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1999).

Sean P. Kealy, A History of the Interpretation of the Gospel of Mark (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2007).

Werner H. Kelber, Mark’s Story of Jesus (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1974).

Werner H. Kelber, The Oral and Written Gospel (reprint: Indiana University Press, 1997).

Eugene LaVerdiere, The Beginning of the Gospel: Introducing the Gospel According to Mark, 2 vol. (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1999).

Amy-Jill Levine, A Feminist Companion to Mark, Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings 2 (Sheffield: Sheffield University Press, 2001)

Francis J. Maloney, Mark: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004).

Willi Marxsen, Der Evangelist Markus. Studien zur Redaktionsgeschichte des Evangeliums, Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 67 (= NS 49) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1956; 2nd ed., 1959).

Ched Myers, Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1988; reprint: 2008).

John Painter, Mark’s Gospel: Worlds in Conflict, New Testament Readings (New York: Routledge, 1997).

Hendrika Nicoline Roskam, The Purpose of the Gospel of Mark in its Historical and Social Context, Supplements to Novum Testamentum, vol. 114 (Leiden: Brill, 2004).

David M. Rhoads, with Joanna Dewey and Donald Michie, Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of A Gospel, 2nd ed. (1st ed.: 1982; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1999).

Jens Schrörter, “The Gospel of Mark,” in The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament, ed. David Aune (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 272-295.

Whitney Taylor Shiner, Proclaiming the Gospel: First-Century Performance of Mark (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2003).

William R. Telford, Mark, New Testament Guides (Sheffield Academic Press, 1995).

William R. Telford, The Theology of the Gospel of Mark, New Testament Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Mary Ann Tolbert, Sowing the Gospel: Mark’s World in a Literary-Historical Perspective (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989).

John R. Donahue & Daniel J. Harrington, Gospel of Mark, Sacra Pagina 2 (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2001). This up-to-date commentary, like others in the series, offers a thorough but not overly technical examination of the text. It is a good place to start one’s study of what scholars believe is the earliest of the four gospels.

M. Eugene Boring, Mark: A Commentary, New Testament Library (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2006).

Mary Ann Beavis, Mark, Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011) paperback $28. NEW.

Richard T. France, The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary on the Greek Text, New International Greek Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002).

Robert A. Guelich, Mark 1:1-8:26 & Mark 8:27-16:20, Word Biblical Commentary 34A & B (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1989, 2001).

Mary Healy, The Gospel of Mark, Catholic Commentary on Scripture (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008).

Morna D. Hooker, ed., The Gospel According to Saint Mark, Black’s New Testament Commentary 2 (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1993).

Bas M.F. van Iersel, Mark: A Reader-Response Commentary, Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplementary series, vol. 164 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998).

William L. Lane, The Gospel According to Mark: The English Text with Introduction, Exposition, and Notes, New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999).

Bruce J. Malina & Richard L. Rohrbaugh, Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels, 2nd ed. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003).

Francis J. Maloney, The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2002).

Joel Marcus, Mark 8-16, Anchor Yale Bible Commentary (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).

Jens Schröter, “The Gospel of Mark,” in The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament, Blackwell Companions to Religion, ed. David E. Aune (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 272-296.

Vincent Taylor, The Gospel According to St. Mark, 2nd ed. (1st ed.: 1953; London: Macmillan, 1966).

Ben Witherington III, The Gospel of Mark: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2001).

Ernest E. Best, The Temptation and the Passion: The Markan Soteriology, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Edwin K. Broadhead, Teaching with Authority: Miracles and Christology in the Gospel of Mark (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992).

Edwin Keith Broadhead, Naming Jesus: Titular Christology in the Gospelof Mark (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999).

Adela Yabro Collins, “From Noble Death to Crucified Messiah,” New Testament Studies 40 (1994): 481-503.

Paul L. Danove, The Rhetoric of the Characterization of God, Jesus, and Jesus’ Disciples in the Gospel of Mark, Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplementary Series, vol. 290 (New York: T&T Clark International, 2005).

Peter M. Head, Christology and the Synoptic Problem: An Argument for Markan Priority, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 94 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Suzanne Watts Henderson, Christology and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Jack Dean Kingsbury, The Christology of Mark’s Gospel (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1989).

Keikki Räisänen, The ‘Messianic Secret’ in Mark, trans. Christopher Tuckett (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1990).

Vernon K. Robbins, Jesus the Teacher: A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of Mark (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992).

William R. Telford, “Mark’s Portrait of Jesus,” in The Blackwell Companion to Jesus, ed. Delbert Burkett (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 13-29.

Suzanne Watts, Christology and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

William Wrede, The Messianic Secret, trans. J.C.G. Greig (reprint: Greewood, SC: Attic Press, 1971).

Stephen Ahearne-Kroll, The Psalms of Lament in Mark’s Passion, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Capel Anderson, Jancie and Stephen D. Moore, eds., Mark and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992).

Robert R. Beck, Nonviolent Story: Narrative Conflict Resolution in the Gospel of Mark (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996).

Jonathan A. Draper & John Miles Foley, eds., Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory and Mark: Essays Dedicated to Werner Kelber (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006).

J. Edwards, “Markan Sandwiches: The Significance of Interpolations in Markan Narratives,” Novum Testamentum 31 (1989): 193-216.

J. Keith Elliott, eds., The Language and Style of the Gospel of Mark, New Testament Studies, vol. 71 (Leiden: Brill, 1993).

Susan R. Garrett, The Temptations of Jesus in Mark’s Gospel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998)

Timothy C. Gray, The Temple in the Gospel of Mark: A Study in Its Narrative Role (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010).

Ferdinand Hahn, ed., Der Erzähler des Evagneliums: Methodische Nueansätze in der Markusforschung (Stuttgarter Bibelstudien, vol. 118/19 (Stuttgart: 1985).

Robert G. Hammerton-Kelly, The Gospel and the Sacred: The Politics of Violence in Mark (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993).

Richard A. Horsley, Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006).

Jack Dean Kingsbury, Conflict in Mark: Jesus, Authorities, Disciples (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989).

Christopher D. Marshall, Faith as a Theme in Mark’s Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

Susan Miller, Women in Mark’s Gospel, Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplementary series 259 (London: T&T Clark, 2004).

David B. Peabody, Lamar Cope, and Allan J. McNicol, eds., One Gospel from Two: Mark’s Use of Matthew and Luke: A Demonstration by the Research Team of the International Institute for Renewal of Gospel Studies (Harrisburg, PA: Trinit, 2002).

John Kenneth Riches, Conflicting Mythologies: Identity Formation in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2000).

Wolfgang Roth, Hebrew Gospel: Cracking the Code of Mark (Oak Park: IL : Meyer-Stone, 1988).

Marie Noonan Sabine, Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism (New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Whitney Taylor Shiner, Proclaiming the Gospel: First-Century Performance of Mark (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2003).

Stephen H. Smith, A Lion With Wings: A Narrative-Critical Approach to Mark’s Gospel, The Biblical Seminar 38 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996).

William R. Telford, The Barren Temple and the Withered Tree: A Redaction-Critical Analysis of the Cursing of the Fig-tree Pericope in Mark’s Gospel and Its Relation to the Cleansing of the Temple Tradition (Sheffield: JSOT, 1980).

William R. Telford, Writing on the Gospel of Mark (London: SCM-Canterbury, 2009).

Bonnie B. Thurston, The Spiritual Landscape of Mark (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2008)

Mary Ann Tolbert, Sowing the Gospel: Mark’s World in a Literary-Historical Perspective (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989).

Michael E. Vines, The Problem of Markan Genre: The gospel of Mark and the Jewish Novel (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002)

Rikki E. Watts, Isaiah’s New Exodus and Mark (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1997).

2. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

Dale C. Allison, Studies in Matthew: Interpretation Past and Present (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005).

Warren Carter, Matthew: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996).

Howard W. Clarke, The Gospel of Matthew and Its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the First Gospel (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2003).

Dennis C. Duling, “The Gospel of Matthew,” in Blackwell Companion to the New Testament, ed. David Aune (Malden, MA / Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 296-318.

G.D. Kilpatrick, The Origin of the Gospel According to Matthew (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966).

Jack Dean Kingsbury, Matthew: Structure, Christology, Kingdom (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989).

Jack Dean Kingsbury, Matthew as Story,2nd ed. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988).

Amy-Jill Levine, with M. Bickerstaff, eds., A Feminist Companion to Matthew (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001).

Ulrich Luz, The Theology of the Gospel of Matthew, New Testament Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) .

J. Andrew Overman, Church and Community in Crisis: The Gospel According to Matthew, The New Testament in Context (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1996).

Mark Allan Powell, God with Us: A Pastoral Theology of Matthew’s Gospel (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995).

Donald Senior, What are they saying about Matthew?, rev. ed. (New York: Paulist Press, 1996).

David C. Sim, Matthew and His Christian Contemporaries, Library of New Testament Studies 333 (New York: T&T Clark, 2008).

Elaine M. Wainwright, Towards a Feminist Critical Reading of the Gospel According to Matthew (Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1991).

Daniel J. Harrington, Gospel of Matthew, Sacra Pagina 1 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1991). Harrington’s gift is to sort through a wide range of contemporary interpretations and highlight the best. This offers a good thorough introduction.

M.E. Boring, “Matthew,” in New Interpreter’s Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994).

W.D. Davies and D.C. Allison, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew, New International Critical Commentary, 3 vols. (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1988-1997).

D.C. Duling, The Gospel According to Matthew, in The HarperCollins Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocryphal / Deuteronomical Books (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993).

David Garland, Reading Matthew: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the First Gospel, red., Reading the New Testament series (Macon, GA: Smyth and Helwys, 1999).

R.H Gundry, Matthew: A Commentary on His Handbook for a Mixed Church under Persecution, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994).

Daniel J. Harrington, Gospel of Matthew, Sacra Pagina 1 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1991).

Stanley Hauerwas, Matthew, Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2006).

Ulrich Luz, Matthew: A Commentary, Hermeneia, 3 vol., trans. William C. Linss (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989-2005).

John P. Meier, The Vision of Matthew: Christ, Church, and Morality in the First Gospel (New York: Crossroad, 1991).

Daniel Patte, The Gospel According to Matthew: A Structural Commentary on Matthew’s Faith (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987).

Rudolf Schnackenburg, The Gospel of Matthew, trans. Robert R. Barr (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002).

Donald Senior, Matthew, Abingdon New Testament Commentary (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998).

Charles H. Talbert, Matthew, series: Paideia (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010).

Dale C. Allison, The New Moses: A Matthean Typology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993).

Jack Dean Kingsbury, Matthew: Structure, Christology, Kingdom (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989).

Elaine M. Wainwright, “Who Do You Say That I Am? A Matthean Response,” in The Blackwell Companion to Jesus, ed. Delbert Burkett (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 30-46.

J. Capel Anderson, Matthew’s Narrative Web Over, and Over, and Over Again (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994).

David E. Aune, ed., The Gospel of Matthew in Current Study: Studies in Honor of William G. Thompson (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001).

D.L. Balch, ed, Social History of the Matthean Community: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches (Minneapolis: Fotress Press, 1991).

David R. Bauer, Mark Allan Powell, eds., Treasures Old and New: Recent Contributions to Matthean Studies, SBL Symposium Series 1 (Atlanta, GA: Scholar’s Press, 1996).

G. Bornkamm, G. Barth, and H.J. Held, Tradition and Interpretation in Matthew (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1963).

Jeannine K. Brown, The Disciples in Narrative Perspective: The Portrayal and Function of the Matthean Disciples (Leiden: Brill, 2002).

Warren Carter, What are they saying about Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount (New York: Paulist Press, 1994).

W.C. Carter, Matthew and the Margins: A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2000).

W.D. Davies, The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964).

Dennis C. Duling, “Matthew as a Marginal Scribe in an Advanced Agrarian Society,” Hervormde Teologise Studies 58 (2002): 520-575.

R.H. Gundry, The Use of the Old Testament in St. Matthew’s Gospel. With Special Reference ot the Messianic Hope (Leiden: Brill, 1975).

Daniel M. Gurtner and John Nolland, eds., Built Upon the Rock: Studies in the Gospel of Matthew (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008).

Thomas R. Hatina, ed., Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels, Vol. 2: The Gospel of Matthew, series: Library of New Testament Studies 310 (London / New York: T&T Clark [A Continuum Imprint], 2008).

R.A. Horsley, The Liberation of Christmas: The Infancy Narratives in Social Context (New York: Crossroad, 1989).

Bruce J. Malina and J.H. Neyrey, Calling Jesus Names: The Social Value of Labels in Matthew (Sonoma: Polebridge Press, 1988).

J.H. Neyrey, Honor and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998).

D.E. Orton, The Understanding Scribe: Matthew and the Apocalyptic Ideal (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1989).

J.Andrew Overman, Matthew’s Gospel and Formative Judaism: The Social World of the Matthean Community (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990).

J. Andrew Overman, Church and Community in Crisis: The Gospel Accroding to Matthew, The New Testament in Context (Valley Forge: Trinity International Press, 1996).

J. Riches and D.C. Sim, eds., The Gospel of Matthew in its Roman Imperial Context (London: T&T Clark, 2005).

A.J. Saldarini, Matthew’s Christian-Jewish Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

Donald Senior, “Between Two Worlds: Gentile and Jewish Christians in Matthew’s Gospel,” Catholic Biblical Quartetly 61 (1999): 1-23.

David C. Sim, Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Gospel of Matthew (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Huub van de Sandt, ed., Matthew and the Didache: Two Documents from the Same Jewish Christian Milieu?, Compendia rerum iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005).

G.N. Stanton, A Gospel for a New People: Studies in Matthew (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1992).

G.N. Stanton, “The Origin and Purpose of Matthew’s Gospel: Matthean Scholarship from 1945-1980,” Aufstieg und Nidergang der römischen Welt, II.25.3. 1890-1951 (1985).

3. THE GOSPEL OF LUKE & THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

C.G. Bartholomew, J.B. Green, and A.C. Thiselton, eds., Reading Luke: Interpretation, Reflection, Formation (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005).

Paul Borgman, The Way According to Luke: Hearing the Whole Story of Luke-Acts (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006).

François Bovon, Luke the Theologian: Fifty-Five Years of Research (1950-2005), 2^nd edition (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006).

R.L. Brawley, Centering on God: Method and Message in Luke-Acts (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1990).

H.J. Cadbury, The Making of Luke-Acts (New York: Macmillan, 1927; repr. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1999).

H.J. Cadbury, The Style and Method of St. Luke (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1920).

Hans Conzelmann, The Theology of St. Luke (1961; repr.: Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981).

J.A. Darr, On Character Building: The Reader and the Rhetoric of Characterization in Luke-Acts (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1992).

Craig A. Evans & James A. Sanders, Luke and Scripture: the Function of Sacred Tradition in Luke-Acts (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993).

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Luke the Theologian: Aspects of His Theology (New York: Paulist Press, 1989).

Joel B. Green, The Theology of the Gospel of Luke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

J. Jervell, Luke and the People of God: A New Look at Luke-Acts (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1972).

Robert Karris, Luke: Artist and Theologian; Luke’s Passion Account as Literature (New York: Paulist Press, 1985).

Karl Allen Kuhn, Luke: The Elite Evangelist, series: Paul’s Social Network (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2010).

Amy-Jill Levine, ed., A Feminist Companion to Luke (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2001).

R. Maddox, The Purpose of Luke-Acts, ed. J. Riches (Edinburgh: T&T Clark / Götting: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982).

I.H. Marshall, Luke: Historian and Theologian (Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1970).

R.F. O’Toole, The Unity of Luke’s Theology: An analysis of Luke-Acts, Good News Studies 9 (Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1984).

Mikeal Parsons, Luke: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2007).

M.C. Parsons and R.I. Pervo, Rethinking the Unity of Luke and Acts (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993).

Mark Allan Powell, What Are They Saying About Luke? (New York: Paulist Press, 1989).

V. George Shillington, An Introduction to the Study of Luke-Acts (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2007).

Charles H. Talbert, Literary Patterns: Theological Themes, and the Genre of Luke-Acts (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1974).

Charles H. Talbert, ed., Perspectives in Luke-Acts (Danville, VA: Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, 1978).

Charles H. Talbert, ed., Luke-Acts: New Perspectives from the SBL Seminar (New York: Crossroads, 1984).

Robert C. Tannehill, The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts: A Literary Interpretation, 2 vol. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1991-1994).

Richard P. Thompson, “Luke-Acts: The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles,” in The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament, ed. David E. Aune (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 319-343.

Christopher M. Tuckett, Luke, New Testament Guides (Sheffield Academic Press, 1996).

Christopher M. Tuckett, Luke’s Literary Achievement: Collected Essays, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Supplement 116 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995).

Luke Timothy Johnson, Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina 3 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press [A Michael Glazier Book], 1991). Luke Timothy Johnson offers a good in-depth and lucid study of the rich theology of the Gospel of Luke. A good place to start.

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, The Gospel According to Luke, Anchor Bible 28-28A, 2 vol. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981-1985). One of the most exhaustive studies of Luke’s gospel. See especially the lengthy introduction.

François Bovon, Luke 1: A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke 1:1-9:50, Hermeneia Series (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002).

Raymond E. Brown, The Birth of the Messiah (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979) (includes a commentary of the infancy narrative of Luke).

F.W. Danker, Jesus and the New Age: A Commentary on St. Luke’s Gospel, rev. ed. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988).

E.E. Ellis, The Gospel of Luke, The New Century Bible Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974).

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, The Gospel According to Luke, Anchor Bible 28-28A, 2 vol. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981-1985).

Luke Timothy Johnson, Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina 3 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press [A Michael Glazier Book], 1991).

I.H. Marshall, Commentary on Luke, New International Greek Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978).

E. Schweizer, The Good News According to Luke, trans. D.E. Green (Atlanta: John Knox, 1984).

Charles H. Talbert (2002), Reading Luke: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Third Gospel, rev. ed., Reading the New Testament Series (Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2002),

Robert C. Tannehill, Luke, Abingdon New Testament Commentaries (Nashville: Abingdon, 1996).

Hans Conzelmann, Acts of the Apostles, Hermeneia Series (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987).

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, The Acts of the Apostles, Anchor Bible 31 (New York: Doubleday, 1998).

Beverly Roberts Gaventa, The Acts of the Apostles, Abingdon New Testament Commentaries (Nashville: Abingdon, 2003)

Luke Timothy Johnson, The Acts of the Apostles, Sacra Pagina 5 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press [A Michael Glazier Book], 1992).

Bruce J. Malina, and John J. Pilch, Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Acts (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008).

Jaroslav Pelikan, Acts, Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2006).

Charles H. Talbert, Reading Acts: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Reading the New Testament (New York: Crossroad, 1999).

H. Douglas Buckwalter, The Character and Purpose of Luke’s Christology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Delbert Burkett, “Jesus in Luke-Acts,” in The Blackwell Companion to Jesus, ed. Delbert Burkett (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 47-63.

R. Cassidy, Jesus, Politics, and Society: A Study of Luke’s Gospel (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1978).

James D.G. Dunn, “KURIOS in Acts,” in James D.G. Dunn, The Christ and the Spirit: Collected Essays of James D.G. Dunn, Vol. 1: Christology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), 241-253.

Eric Franklin, Christ the Lord: A Study in the Purpose and Theology of Luke-Acts (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1975).

C. Kavin Rowe, Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel of Luke (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2006).

Mark L. Strauss, The Davidic Messiah in Luke-Acts: The Promise and Its Fulfillment in Lukan Christology (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995).

Christopher M. Tuckett, “The Person and Work of Jesus,” in Luke (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996; repr.: New York: T&T Clark, 2004), 72-93.

Christopher M. Tuckett, “The Christology of Luke-Acts,” in Joseph Verheyden, ed., The Unity of Luke-Acts (Leuven: Leuven University Press / Peeters, 1999), 133-164.

Christopher M. Tuckett, “Luke-Acts,” in Christology and the New Testament: Jeuss and His Earliest Followers (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2001), 133-147.

A.W. Zwiep, The Ascension of the Messiah in Lukan Christology (Leiden: Brill, 1997).

C.G. Bartholomew, J.B. Green, and A.C. Thieselton, eds., Reading Luke: Interpretation, Reflection, Formation (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 2005).

R.L. Brawley, Luke-Acts and the Jews: Conflict, Apology, and Conciliation, Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series 33 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987).

Raymond E. Brown, ed., Mary in the New Testament (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978), 105-134.

S. Brown, Apostasy and Perseverance in the Theology of Luke, Analecta Biblica 36 (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1969).

J.T. Carroll, Response to the End of History: Eschatology and Salvation in Luke-acts (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988).

R.J. Dillon, From Eyewitnesses to Ministers of the Word: Tradition and Composition in Luke 24, Analecta Biblica 82 (Rome: Biblical Institute, 1978).

R.J. Dillon, “Previewing Luke’s Project from his Prologue,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 43 (1981): 205-227.

Philip F. Esler, Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts: The Social and Political Motivations of Lucan Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).

C.A. Evans and J.A. Sanders, Luke and Scripture: The Function of Sacred Tradition in Luke-Acts (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993).

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, “The Ascension of Christ and Pentecost,” Theological Studies 45 (1984); 409-440.

D.B. Gowler, Host, Guest, Enemy, and Friend: Portraits of the Pharisees in Luke and Acts (New York: Peter Lang, 1991).

J.P. Heil, The Meal Scenes in Luke-Acts: An Audience-Oriented Approach (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999).

Luke Timothy Johnson, The Literary Function of Possessions in Luke-Acts, Society for Biblical Literature Dissertation series 39 (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1977).

Luke Timothy Johnson, “On Finding the Lukan Community: A Cautious Cautionary Essay,” in 1979 SBL Seminar Papers, ed. Paul Achtemeir (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1978), 87-100.

Robert J. Karris, Eating Your Way Through Luke’s Gospel (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2006).

Robert J. Karris, “Missionary Communities: A New Paradigm for the Study of Luke-Acts,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 41 (1979): 80-97.

Leander Keck and J.L. Martyn eds., Studies in Luke-Acts (Nashville: Abingdon, 1966)>

Sean P. Kealy, The Interpretation of the Gospel of Luke, 2 vol., Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity 63 & 64 (Edwin Mellen Press, 2005).

Jack Dean Kingsbury, Conflict in Luke: Jesus, Authorities, Disciples (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991).

K.D. Litwak, Echoes of Scripture in Luke-Acts: Telling the History of God’s People Intertextually (London: T&T Clark, 2005).

P. Minear, To Heal and to Reveal: The Prophetic Vocation According to Luke (New York: Crossroads, 1976).

D.P. Moessner, ed., Jesus and the Heritage of Israel (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1999).

D.P. Moessner, Lord of the Banquet: The Literary and Theological Significance of the Lukan Travel Narrative (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989).

H. Moxnes, The Economy of the Kingdom: Social Conflict and Economic Relations in Luke’s Gospel (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988).

D.A. Neale, None but the Sinners: Religious Categories in the Gospel of Luke (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1991).

Jerome H. Neyrey, ed., The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1991).

Jerome H. Neyrey, The Passion According to Luke: A Redaction Study of Luke’s Soteriology (New York: Paulist Press, 1985).

M.C. Parsons, Body and Character in Luke-Acts: The Subversion of Physiognomy in Early Christianity (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006).

Walter E. Pilgrim, Good News to the Poor: Wealth and Poverty in Luke-Acts (Augsburg, 1981)

T.K. Seim, Double Message: Patterns of Gender in Luke-Acts (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994).

C.H. Talbert, “Prophecies of Future Greatness: The Contribution of Graeco-Roman Biographies to an Understanding of Luke 1:5-4:14,” in The Divine Helmsman, ed. J.L. Crenshaw and S. Sandmel (New York: KTAV, 1980), 129-141.

R. Tannehill, “The Magnificat as Poem,” Journal of Biblical Literature 93 (1974): 263-275.

D. Tied, Prophecy and History in Luke-Acts (Philadelphia: Fotress Press, 1980).

Richard P. Thompson, “Luke-Acts: The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles,” in Blackwell Companion to the New Testament, ed. David Aune (Malden, MA / Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 319-343.

Joseph B. Tyson, Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006).

Joseph B. Tyson, Luke-Acts and The Jewish People: Eight Critical Perpsectives (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1988).

P.W. Walasky, “The Trial and Death of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke,” Journal of Biblical Literature 94 (1975): 81-93.

S.G. Wilson, The Gentiles and the Gentile Mission in Luke-Acts, SNTMS 23 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973).

S.G. Wilson, Luke and the Law, SNTMS 50 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).

Paul Borgman, The Way According to Luke: Hearing the Whole Story of Luke-Acts (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).

James D.G. Dunn, “KURIOS in Acts,” in James D.G. Dunn, The Christ and the Spirit: Collected Essays of James D.G. Dunn, Vol. 1: Christology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), 241-253.

Jacob Jervell, The Theology of the Acts of the Apostles, New Testament Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Howard Clark Kee, To Every Nation under Heaven: The Acts of the Apostles, The New Testament in Context (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997).

H.-J. Klauck, Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity: The World of the Acts of the Apostles (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2000).

Todd Klutz, The Exorcism Stories in Luke-Acts: A Sociostylistic Reading, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

J.C. Lentz, Jr., Luke’s Portrait of Paul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

I.H. Marshall and D. Peterson, eds., Witness to the Gospel: The Theology of Acts (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998).

David W. Pao, Acts and the Isianic New Exodus, Biblical Studies Library (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006).

T. Penner and C. Vander Stichele, eds., Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2003).

R.I. Pervo, Profit with Delight: The Literary Genre of the Acts of the Apostles (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987).

R.I. Pervo, Dating Acts: Between the Evangelists and the Apologists (Santa Rosa: Polebridge Press, 2006).

T.E. Phillips, ed., Acts and Ethics (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2005).

Mark Allan Powell, What are they saying about Acts? (New York: Paulist Press, 1992).

I.R. Reiner, Women in the Acts of the Apostles: A Feminist Liberation Perspective (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995).

V. George Shillington, An Introduction to the Study of Luke-Acts (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2007).

F.S. Spencer, The Portrait of Philip in Acts: A Study of Roles and Relations (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992).

G.E. Sterling, Historiography and Self-Definition: Josephus, Luke-Acts, and Apologetic Historiography (Leiden: Brill, 1992).

W.A. Strange, The Problem of the Text of Acts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

R.P. Thompson, “ ‘What Do You Think You Are Doing, Paul?’ “Synagogues, Accusations, and Ethics in Paul’s Ministry in Acts 16-21,” in Acts and Ethics, ed. T.E. Phillips (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2005), 64-78.

P.W. Walasky, “And So We Came to Rome”: The Political Perspective of St. Luke, SNTMS 49 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).

4. THE GOSPEL OF JOHN

Raymond E. Brown & Francis J. Maloney, An Introduction to the Gospel of John (New York: Doubleday, 2003). This century has seen a number of great commentaries on John’s Gospel (Bultmann, Dodd, Schnackenburg). Brown’s two-volume commentary, The Gospel of John, Anchor Bible 29-29A (New York: Doubleday, 1969-1970), was arguably the most famous. Whereas many scholars emphasize John’s difference from the Synoptics, Brown emphasized their similarities; whereas many scholars deny or downplay its historical value, Brown emphasized it. Brown was at work revising and updating his classic, but died before he could complete things. Maloney, a leading expert on John, brought Brown’s work to completion.

John Ashton, Understanding the Fourth Gospel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).

John Ashton, Studying John: Approaches to the Fourth Gospel (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

George R. Beasley-Murray, Gospel of Life: Theology in the Fourth Gospel (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996).

Raymond E. Brown & Francis J. Maloney, An Introduction to the Gospel of John, Anchor Bible Reference Library (New York: Doubleday, 2003).

Warren Carter, John: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2006).

James H. Charlesworth, The Beloved Disciple: Whose Witness Validates the Gospel of John? (Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1995).

P. Alan Culpepper, Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987).

P. Alan Culpepper & C. Clifton Black, Exploring the Gospel of John: In Honor of D. Moody Smith (Louisville, KY: Westminister John Knox, 1996).

C.H. Dodd, The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968).

Craig B. Koester, The Word of Life: A Theology of John’s Gospel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).

Robert Kysar, John, the Maverick Gospel, rev. ed. (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1993).

John Painter, The Quest for the Messiah: the History, Literature, and Theology of the Johannine Community (Nashville: Abingdon, 1993).

Fernando F. Segovia, ed., What is John? Readers and Readings of the Fourth Gospel, SBL Symposium Series 3 (Atlanta, GA: Scholar’s Press, 1996).

Gerald Sloyan, What are they saying about John? (New York: Paulist Press, 1991).

D. Moody Smith, The Theology of the Gospel of John, New Testament Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

D. Moody Smith, John Among the Gospels, 2nd ed. (: University of South Carolina Press, 2001).

John Painter, “Johannine Literature: The Gospel and Letters of John,” in The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament, ed. David Aune (oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 344-372.

Tom Thatcher, Why John Wrote a Gospel: Jesus, Memory, History (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2006).

Francis J. Moloney, The Gospel of John, Sacra Pagina 4 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1998). A good current analysis of the text, which introduces you the basic themes, structure, and critical history of the text. A good place to start.

C.K. Barrett, The Gospel According to St. John: An Introduction with Commentary and Notes on the Greek Text, 2nd ed. (London: SPCK, 1978).

Thomas L. Brodie, The Gospel According to John: A Literary and Theological Commentary (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Rudolf Bultmann, The Gospel of John: A Commentary (German original: 1941; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971).

Donald A. Carson, The Gospel According to John (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991).

R. Alan Culpepper, The Gospel and Letters of John (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998).

Peter F. Ellis, The Genius of John: a Composition-Critical Commentary on the Fourth Gospel (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1984).

Ernst Haenchen, John, Hermeneia, 2 vol., trans. Robert W. Funk (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984).

Susan E. Hylen, John, Westminster Bible Companion (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2006).

R.H. Lightfoot, St. John’s Gospel: A Commentary (London: Oxford University Press, 1956).

A.T. Lincoln, The Gospel According to Saint John, Black’s New Testament Commentaries (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005).

Barnabas Lindars, The Gospel of John, New Century Bible (London: Marshall Morgan & Scott, 1972).

Bruce J. Malina & Richard L. Rohrbaugh, Social Science Commentary on the Gospel of John (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998).

Francis J. Moloney, The Gospel of John, Sacra Pagina 4 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1998).

Jerome H. Neyrey, The Gospel of John, The New Cambridge Biblical Commentary (Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Herman Ridderbos, The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1997).

Rudolf Schnackenburg, The Gospel According to St. John, 2 vol., trans. K. Smyth et al. (New York: Seabury Press, 1968, 1980).

D. Moody Smith, John, Abingdon New Testament Commentary (Nashville: Abingdon, 1999) .

Charles H. Talbert, Reading John: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Fourth Gospel and the Johannine Epistles, Reading the New Testament Series (New York: Crossroad, 1999).

Ben Witherington III, John’s Wisdom: A Commentary on the Fourth Gospel (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1995).

John Ashton, “The Transformation of Wisdom: A Study of the Prologue of John’s Gospel,” New Testament Studies (1986): 161-186.

Delbert Burkett, The Son of Man in the Gospel of John (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991).

Delbert Burkett, The Son of Man Debate: A History and Evaluation (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999).

Warren Carter, “The Prologue and John’s Gospel: Function, Symbol and the Definitive Word,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 39 (1990): 35-58.

Mary L. Coloe, “John’s Portrait of Jesus,” in The Blackwell Companion to Jesus, ed. Delbert Burkett (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 64-80.

Paul Hoskins, Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Temple in the Gsopel of John (Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2006).

Alan R. Kerr, The Temple of Jesus’ Body: The Temple Theme in the Gospel of John (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002).

Seyoon Kim, The ‘Son of Man’ as the Son of God (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1983).

Wayne Meeks, “The Man from Heaven in Johannine Sectarianism,” Journal of Biblical Literature 91 (1972): 44-72.

Francis J. Moloney, The Johannine Son of Man, 2^nd rev. ed., Biblioteca Di Scienze Religiose 14 (Rome: LAS, 1978).

James F. McGrath, John’s Apologetic Christology: Legitimation and Development in Johannine Christology, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 111 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

John Painter, The Quest for the Messiah (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1991; 2nd ed., 1993).

Mary Margaret Pazdan, The Son of Man: A Metaphor for Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1991).

Sharon H. Ringe, Wisdom’s Friends: Community and Christology in the Fourth Gospel (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1999).

Sandra M. Schneiders, Written That You May Believe: Encountering Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (New York: Crossroad, 1999).

Alice Sinnot, “Wisdom as Saviour,” Australian Biblical Review 52 (2004): 19-31.

Michael E. Willett, Wisdom Christology in the Fourth Gospel (San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992).

David M. Ball, ‘I AM’ in John’s Gospel: Literary Function, Background, and Theological Implications (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996).

Raymond Brown, The Community of the Beloved Disciple (New York: Paulist Press, 1979).

Mary L. Coloe, God Dwells with Us: Temple Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2001).

Catherine Cory, “Wisdom’s Rescue: A New Reading of the Tabernacles Discourse (John 7:1-8:59),” Journal of Biblical Literature 116 (1997): 95-116.

Michel de Goedt, “Un schème de révélation dans la Quatrième Évangile,” New Testament Studies 8 (1961-1962): 142-150.

P.F. Esler & R.A. Piper, Lazarus, Mary and Martha: Social-Scientific Approaches to the Gospel of John (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006).

Robert Tomson Fortna, The Fourth Gospel and Its Predecessor (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988).

Kare Sigval Fuglseth, Johannine Sectarianism in Perspective: A Sociological, Historical, and Comparative Analysis the Temple and Social Relationships in the Gospel of John, Philo, and Qumran (Leiden: Brill, 2005).

Craig R. Koester, Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel: Meaning, Mystery, Community, 2nd ed. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003).

Dorothy A. Lee, Symbolic Narratives of the Fourth Gospel (Sheffield Academic Press, 1994).

Dorothy A. Lee, Flesh and Glory: Symbol, Gender, and Theology in the Gospel of John (New York: Herder & Herder, 2002).

J.L. Martyn, History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel (Nashville: Abingdon, 1968; 2^nd ed, 1979).

Francis J. Moloney, Glory Not Dishonor: Reading John 13-21 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998).

Jerome H. Neyrey, The Gospel of John in Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009)

Teresa Okure, The Johannine Approach to Mission (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1988).

John Painter, R. Alan Culpepper & Fernando Segovia, eds., Word, Theology, and Community in John (St. Louis: Chalice, 2002).

David Rensberger, Johannine Faith and Liberating Community (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1988).

U. Schnelle, Antidocetic Christology in the Gospel of John: An Investigation of the Fourth Gospel in the Johannine School, trans. L.M. Maloney (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992)

Donald Senior, The Passion in the Gospel of John (reprint: Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press [A Michael Glazier Book], 2001).

D. Moody Smith, Johannine Christianity: Essays on Its Setting, Sources, and Theology (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1989).

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William Harmless, SJ

1. THE GOSPEL OF MARK

2. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

3. THE GOSPEL OF LUKE & THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

4. THE GOSPEL OF JOHN