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Books by David Lincicum

The centrality and significance of love for much of ancient Judaism and Christianity are clear. B... more The centrality and significance of love for much of ancient Judaism and Christianity are clear. But if there is a broad, even if not universal, agreement on the importance of love, the singularity of the term »love« covers over a multitude of differences in how love is conceived and mapped onto the conceptual landscape of antiquity. In this volume, Crabbe and Lincicum assemble a set of essays that analyze the concept of love from the minor prophets to Methodius of Olympus, with a central focus on the texts that came to make up the New Testament.
Table of contents:
Gary A. Anderson: No Mercy without Justice, No Justice without Mercy - David Lincicum: A Contest of Desires: Eros, Self-Love, and Love of God in Philo of Alexandria - Courtney J. P. Friesen: Friendship and Other Mortal Dangers between Greek Tragedy and Ancient Christianity - Mary Marshall: The Look of Love: Interpreting Human and Divine Love in Mark 10:21 - Kylie Crabbe: Who Will Love More? Loving Rightly as Discipleship Response in Luke - Marianne Meye Thompson: »God so Loved the World« - Jane Heath: »Fear Thrice Denied, Love Thrice Confessed«: Love and Vocation in John 21:15-19 - Teresa Morgan: Living and Loving in the »Present Evil Age« - Grant Macaskill: Measuring the Unmeasurable: Reframing the Language of Mystery, Knowledge, and Love in Ephesians 3-4 - Nicholas J. Moore: The Human, Priestly Compassion of the Divine Son in the Letter to the Hebrews - C. Kavin Rowe: Love is a Work: The Contribution of James to a Theology of Love - Jennifer Strawbridge: Love without Christ is Dead: The Saving Power of Love in 1 Peter - Nathan Eubank: Love, the Law, and Eternal Life - Richard B. Hays: Is Love All You Need? A Reconsideration of the Role of Love in New Testament Ethics - Christopher M. Hays: How Justice and Mercy Became Charity: The Emergence of Love as a Motivation for Care for the Needy - Benjamin A. Edsall: »Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong«: The Role of Love in the Gospels of Truth and Philip - Mark W. Elliott: Origen, Methodius, and Love's Freedom

https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/divine-and-human-love-in-jewish-and-christian-antiquity-9783161634628/

Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish statesman, philosopher, and religious thinker. A significant amo... more Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish statesman, philosopher, and religious thinker. A significant amount of his literary corpus was preserved by Christian hands and thereby came to resource numerous theologians in the Christian tradition. After passing into obscurity in Jewish circles in antiquity, Philo was rediscovered in the Italian Renaissance and came to feature in Jewish tradition once again. Philo's works straddle an interest in exegesis and philosophy, and the multi-faceted contents of his thought ensured a long history of reception among readers with their own agendas. This authoritative and systematic collection of essays by an international team of experts surveys Philo's reception from the time of his immediate contemporaries to the present day. The book unfolds over six sections: the first centuries, late antiquity, the middle ages, the renaissance and early modern period, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and contemporary perspectives.

A reader of FC Baur's work on philosophy of religion, history of dogma, New Testament criticism, ... more A reader of FC Baur's work on philosophy of religion, history of dogma, New Testament criticism, church history, and the controversies of his day, containing both newly translated texts and excerpts from previous translations. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ferdinand-christian-baur-a-reader-9780567694485/

The Christ Party in the Corinthian Community by Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792–1860), one of the ... more The Christ Party in the Corinthian Community by Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792–1860), one of the founders of modern New Testament scholarship, is now available in English for the first time. In this ground-breaking work, Baur argued for a diversity of views in the earliest strata of the Christian tradition that shaped the modern study of Paul in lasting ways. Baur’s work revealed a tension between Pauline, gentile Christianity, on the one hand, and Petrine, Judaizing Christianity. In addition to Baur’s essay, this edition includes the first English translation of Ernst Käsemann’s introduction to Baur’s Historisch-kritische Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Even if some of Baur’s concrete historical results have been surpassed by subsequent scholarship, this book offers a compelling glimpse of the critical method and piercing insight into one of the shapers of modern biblical study. Translated by Wayne Coppins, Christoph Heilig, Lucas Ogden, and David Lincicum.

More information: https://cart.sbl-site.org/books/064530P

God and Guns: The Bible against American Gun Culture, 2021

Using the Bible as the foundational source and guide, while also bringing contemporary sociologic... more Using the Bible as the foundational source and guide, while also bringing contemporary sociological data to the conversation, seven biblical scholars and theologians construct a powerful dialogue about gun violence in America, concluding that guns are incompatible with the God of Christian Scripture. God and Guns is the first book to argue against gun culture from a biblical studies perspective. Bringing the Bible into conversation with contemporary sociological data, the volume breaks new exegetical and critical ground and lays the foundations for further theological work. The scholars assembled in this volume construct a powerful argument against gun violence, concluding that a self-identity based on guns is incompatible with Christian identity. Drawing on their expertise in the Bible’s ancient origins and modern usage, they present striking new insights involving psychology, ethics, race, gender, and culture. This collection, carefully edited for clarity and readability, will change conversations—and our culture.

Contributors include T. M. Lemos, David Lincicum, Shelly Matthews, Yolanda Norton, and Brent A. Strawn.

A three-volume, authoritative history of German theology from Kant to the present. To be publis... more A three-volume, authoritative history of German theology from Kant to the present.

To be published by Oxford University Press in 2022.

The Table of Contents can be viewed here: https://ohmgt.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/contents/.

An edited collection, with contributions in German and English, examining the philosophical, theo... more An edited collection, with contributions in German and English, examining the philosophical, theological, and historical work of the influential Tübingen scholar.

A posthumously edited collection of Graham Stanton's shorter studies on Matthew, the New Testamen... more A posthumously edited collection of Graham Stanton's shorter studies on Matthew, the New Testament, and early Christianity.

An excerpt from my book (preface, TOC, first chapter), courtesy of Baker Academic

Papers by David Lincicum

Presbyterian Outlook, 2023

Celebrating Arthur Darby Nock: Choice, Change, and Conversion, edited by Robert Matthew Calhoun, James A. Kelhoffer, and Clare K. Rothschild, WUNT (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck), 2021

This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that permitted by copyr... more This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that permitted by copyright law) without the publisher's written permission. This applies particularly to reproductions, translations and storage and processing in electronic systems. The book was printed on non-aging paper by Gulde Druck in Tübingen and bound by Buchbinderei Spinner in Ottersweier.

This note presents a preliminary critical edition and discussion of an excerpt of 1 and 2 Clement... more This note presents a preliminary critical edition and discussion of an excerpt of 1 and 2 Clement found in Nikon's Pandektes. This is the prepublication version. The published version can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/jts/article-abstract/73/1/126/6564104

Forthcoming in a Festschrift for John Walton. A study of Charles Darwin's engagement with the Bib... more Forthcoming in a Festschrift for John Walton. A study of Charles Darwin's engagement with the Bible over the course of his life. [for some reason the file isn't displaying correctly, but it is downloadable]

Both Origen and Augustine constructed Paul the Christ-follower as a Law-observant Jew. Each, howe... more Both Origen and Augustine constructed Paul the Christ-follower as a Law-observant Jew. Each, however, construed Romans 11.25-26 very differently. For Origen, all ethnic Israel was redeemed; for Augustine, redeemed Israel was that minority of Christians, whether Jew or Gentiles, predestined to salvation. Their positions were determined in no small part by their opponents, Marcionites in Origen's case, Pelagians in Augustine's.

Vigiliae Christianae 73.3, 2019

This short article presents two late Greek manuscripts that partially preserve the text of 1 Clem... more This short article presents two late Greek manuscripts that partially preserve the text of 1 Clement. The first, BNF Suppl. gr. 64, fols. 105-112v (‘P’) is a 15th century manuscript containing 1 Clem. 40.5-60.4a, in a textual form affiliated with Codex Hierosolymitanus (Taphou 54). The second, EBE 1896, fols. 205-223 (‘E’), contains 1 Clement from the incipit through 31.3, and appears to be an apograph of Codex Alexandrinus.

An edition of Philemon 6-8, 18-20 (a.k.a. P139) from Oxyrhynchus

Annotated bibliography with sections on manuscripts, editions and translations, commentaries and ... more Annotated bibliography with sections on manuscripts, editions and translations, commentaries and concordance, introductory works, circumstances of origin, reception of Scripture and authoritative writings, relationship with Judaism, Two Ways tradition, and church practices & theology. If anyone doesn't have access and would like a PDF, email me at dlincicu@nd.edu and I'll be happy to send one along.

A study of translations from (esp.) German into English published in Victorian Britain from 1825-... more A study of translations from (esp.) German into English published in Victorian Britain from 1825-1895.

This is the submitted draft version of a paper published in Novum Testamentum 59.2 (2017): 171-93... more This is the submitted draft version of a paper published in Novum Testamentum 59.2 (2017): 171-93 (http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685365-12341555). This study investigates the implications of pseudonymity for the interpretative process, arguing that we need to take into account the pseudepigraphal attempt to achieve a " reality effect " by employing tropes and concerns from authentic Pauline letters to lend the forged writing an air of verisimilitude. But in this way our ability, if we judge a text pseudepigraphal, to discern reality from appearance is severely problematized, and we should therefore consider the possibility that pseudepigraphal letters should be treated more as rhetorical compositions than as epistolary literature, since all the ostensive elements of epistolarity are fictionalized in a pseudepigraphal letter.

https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/divine-and-human-love-in-jewish-and-christian-antiquity-9783161634628/

More information: https://cart.sbl-site.org/books/064530P

God and Guns: The Bible against American Gun Culture, 2021

Contributors include T. M. Lemos, David Lincicum, Shelly Matthews, Yolanda Norton, and Brent A. Strawn.

A three-volume, authoritative history of German theology from Kant to the present. To be publis... more A three-volume, authoritative history of German theology from Kant to the present.

To be published by Oxford University Press in 2022.

The Table of Contents can be viewed here: https://ohmgt.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/contents/.

An excerpt from my book (preface, TOC, first chapter), courtesy of Baker Academic

Presbyterian Outlook, 2023

Celebrating Arthur Darby Nock: Choice, Change, and Conversion, edited by Robert Matthew Calhoun, James A. Kelhoffer, and Clare K. Rothschild, WUNT (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck), 2021

Vigiliae Christianae 73.3, 2019

An edition of Philemon 6-8, 18-20 (a.k.a. P139) from Oxyrhynchus

This is a chapter for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth Century Christian Thought. Th... more This is a chapter for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth Century Christian Thought. The nineteenth century saw profound doubts about the veracity and trustworthiness – and so about the authority – of Scripture take root within ecclesial circles. This chapter considers the variegated shifts in views of the Bible across this period, arguing that differentiated challenges converged to issue a question to Christian churches about the nature of their Bible, though the contours of these challenges and their responses differed by national context. Advances in the hard sciences, and in particular geology (Lyell) and biology (Darwin, esp. as championed by T.H. Huxley), troubled the long-standing attempt to use the natural world as a source of ‘evidences’ for the truth of the Bible. The widespread historicization of European thought did not exempt the Bible, but gave rise to attempts to understand the Hebrews and early Christians, as well as their writings, in the context of antiquity. Finally, the concrete results of historical criticism, first championed in German circles and transposed to French, British and American contexts by the end of the century, increasingly problematized attempts to view the Bible as a unified text whose veracity was secured by trustworthy authorial claims.

Mark’s use of the aramaism ἐφφαθα in 7,34 may be read as an apocalyptic trope, directing heaven ... more Mark’s use of the aramaism ἐφφαθα in 7,34 may be read as an apocalyptic trope, directing heaven to open in divine blessing, rather than directed in the first instance to the man with the speech impediment.

Appeared in Journal of Jewish Studies 66.1 (2015), 190–93

The origin of the term 'apostolic fathers' has been the subject of some debate. This note examine... more The origin of the term 'apostolic fathers' has been the subject of some debate. This note examines the extant bindings of Cotelier's 1672 edition of the collection to suggest that the term first arises as a paratextual shortening of his title by readers, booksellers, and librarians, and from there enters into common usage.

Note: this was originally hosted on my personal website (28.5.2014), but that site is now defunct... more Note: this was originally hosted on my personal website (28.5.2014), but that site is now defunct. Since this is about the only thing from that site to which people still occasionally refer, I am uploading it to academia.edu to ensure its availability.

A paper, still rough and with no immediate plans for development, presented at the Society of Bib... more A paper, still rough and with no immediate plans for development, presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in the History of Interpretation section in San Antonio, 2016. Develops a typology of teleological strategies employed, knowingly or otherwise, in writing the history of exegesis.

History of Biblical Exegesis (HBE) is an international series dealing with the entire scope of t... more History of Biblical Exegesis (HBE) is an international series dealing with the entire scope of the history of biblical exegesis, from antiquity to the present. It resumes the Beiträge zur Geschichte der biblischen Exegese, founded by Gerhard Ebeling and published by Mohr Siebeck from the 1950s to the 1990s. The series includes in its purview works of enduring scholarly value and excellence, ranging from excellent dissertations or first monographs to important conference volumes and collections of essays, to specialist monographs by established experts. History of Biblical Exegesis is understood capaciously to include a broad variety of forms of sustained attention to the biblical text. An international team of editors oversees the series to ensure its academic quality.

This is a whimsical counterfactual experiment with a serious point. The New Testament was both wr... more This is a whimsical counterfactual experiment with a serious point. The New Testament was both written in Greek and translated into English in cultures that took the priority of the masculine for granted. The collective term for humanity was long, in English, simply 'man'. Likewise the generic supplied as the subject for many commands, whether expressed in participles, imperatives, or other forms of prohibition or obligation, has often been simply 'he'. Translations that aspire to gender neutrality do, of course, exist (instance the NRSV or the ill-fated TNIV). This version, by contrast, invites the reader to imagine how the New Testament might read if the feminine rather than the masculine had been employed for the collective, the generic, and the imagined. In this doctored text of the Authorized Version (known commonly as the King James Version), masculine pronouns that do not refer to specific males have been changed to feminine, and characters in imaginative stories (e.g. parables) have been rendered female where possible. On the whole, changes are more noticeable in paraenetic material than in narrative. There is no doubt that different editors would make divergent choices in individual instances, but the force of the imaginative exercise is in aggregate rather than depending on any particular decision. Masculine language for God has not been altered. The text has been sourced from www.sacred-texts.com.

This working group, sponsored by the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, seeks to... more This working group, sponsored by the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, seeks to develop an ongoing conversation about the intersections between material texts and reading practices in Judaism and Christianity of the first millennium CE. As recent scholarship has emphasized, books do more than contain texts. Books are objects, always implicated in economic, ritual, and readerly matrices of production, collection, and use. One never encounters a disembodied text, apart from the material constraints and paratextual interventions that enable its physical existence. Nor do books read themselves; they are manipulated by reading communities with specific reading practices. The burgeoning discipline of book history creates and applies knowledge of the material, cultural, and theoretical aspects of the book. Associated practices of authorship, editing, reading, and collecting-ancient and modern-as well as the material culture and reading practices associated with non-book texts likewise fall within its scope. Christian and Jewish communities have often oriented themselves around books and reading and the insights of book history enrich the study of Judaism, Christianity, and their interactions with one another. This working group will thus focus on the material reception and interaction of Jewish and Christian texts from Late Antiquity into the early modern period; the Middle Ages are both chronologically and conceptually central to this conversation.

This is simply a teaching document that updates and expands slightly the foundational collection ... more This is simply a teaching document that updates and expands slightly the foundational collection of Harnack, and supplies English translations where available

This conference brings together leading scholars of Gospel literature and material texts to discu... more This conference brings together leading scholars of Gospel literature and material texts to discuss the history and significance of the material Gospel in the first five centuries CE. Early Christians materialized Gospel literature in diverse formats and technologies. As material objects, these instantiations of “the Gospel” participated in ritual, political, economic, and readerly contexts. Gospel books were powerful. Augustine of Hippo complains that his audiences put Gospel books under their pillows to cure toothache. Amulets attest that even short excerpts enabled users to access the protective power of a material Gospel. The Gospel codex sometimes represented Christian identity, as Gospel books were processed in liturgy and imposed on the shoulders of ordinands. In times of persecution, Gospel books were even subject to public execution in place of Christ himself. Yet Gospel books might also be erased or destroyed for more mundane reasons, as various kinds of recycling attest. As an anthological object, the multi-Gospel codex contributed to the development of a fourfold canonical Gospel. Early Christian readers developed novel strategies to facilitate knowledge, navigation, and use of Gospel literature. In each of these contexts, the materiality of Gospel literature plays a decisive role.

Overview BOOKS DO MORE than contain texts. They are objects, always implicated in economic, ritua... more Overview BOOKS DO MORE than contain texts. They are objects, always implicated in economic, ritual, and readerly matrices of production, collection, and use. We never encounter texts disembodied, apart from the material constraints and paratextual interventions that enable their physical existence. Nor do books read themselves. They are manipulated by reading communities with specific reading practices.

Edited by Dave Lincicum and Johannes Zachhuber. Translated by Beáta and Matthew Vale (T&T Clark /... more Edited by Dave Lincicum and Johannes Zachhuber. Translated by Beáta and Matthew Vale (T&T Clark / Continuum: forthcoming).