Books Authored:
Literary Criticism and the Gospels: The Theoretical Challenge. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989.
Mark and Luke in Poststructuralist Perspectives: Jesus Begins to Write. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992.
Poststructuralism and the New Testament: Derrida and Foucault at the Foot of the Cross. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994.
The Postmodern Bible. Co-authored with George Aichele et al. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.
God's Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible. Routledge: New York and London, 1996.
God's Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and around the Bible. Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences Series. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Empire and Apocalypse: Postcolonial Studies and New Testament Studies. The Bible in the Modern World Series, 12. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007.
Biblical Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
Books and Thematic Issues of Journals Edited:
Poststructuralism as Exegesis. Co-edited with David Jobling. Semeia 54. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991.
Mark and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies. Co-edited with Janice Capel Anderson. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992. Expanded 2nd edition forthcoming 2007. Revised and expanded second edition forthcoming spring 2008.
Biblical Studies and the New Historicism. Biblical Interpretation 5:4 (thematic issue), 1997.
Auguries: The Jubilee Volume of the Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies. Co-edited with David J. A. Clines. JSOT Supplement Series, 269. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies: The Third Sheffield Colloquium. Co-edited with J. Cheryl Exum. Gender, Culture, Theory, 7. JSOT Supplement Series, 266. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
In Search of the Present: The Bible through Cultural Studies. Semeia 82. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2000.
New Testament Masculinities. Co-edited with Janice Capel Anderson. Semeia Studies. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Publications; Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 2003.
Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Interdisciplinary Intersections. Co-edited with Fernando F. Segovia. The Bible & Postcolonialism Series. London and New York: T. & T. Clark International, 2005.
Anatomy of Narrative Criticism: The Past, Present, and Future of the Fourth Gospel as Literature. Co-edited with Tom Thatcher. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Publications, forthcoming.
Refereed and Invited Articles:
"Negative Hermeneutics, Insubstantial Texts: Stanley Fish and the Biblical Interpreter." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 54:4 (1986): 401-13.
"Narrative Commentaries on the Bible: Context, Roots, and Prospects." Forum 3:3 (1987): 29-62.
"The 'Post-' Age Stamp: Does It Stick? Biblical Studies and the Postmodernism Debate." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 57:3 (1989): 543-59.
"Rifts in (a Reading of) the Fourth Gospel, or: Does Johannine Irony Still Collapse in a Reading That Draws Attention to Itself?" Neotestamentica 23:1 (1989): 5-18.
"Stories of Reading: Doing Gospel Criticism as/with a 'Reader.'" Biblical Theology Bulletin 19:3 (1989): 85-93.
"The Gospel of the Look." Semeia 54 (1991): 159-96.
"Illuminating the Gospels without the Benefit of Color: A Plea for Concrete Criticism." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 60:2 (1992): 257-79.
"'Mirror, Mirror....': Lacanian Reflections on Malbon's Mark." Semeia 62 (1993): 165-71.
"Are There Impurities in the Living Water That the Johannine Jesus Dispenses? Deconstruction, Feminism, and the Samaritan Woman." Biblical Interpretation 1:2 (1993): 207-27. Reprinted in The Interpretation of John, edited by John Ashton. 2nd edition. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1997.
"The Beatific Vision as a Posing Exhibition: Revelation's Hypermasculine Deity." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 60 (1995): 27-55.
"True Confessions and Weird Obsessions: Autobiographical Interventions in Literary and Biblical Studies." Semeia 72 (1995): 19-51.
"Gigantic God: Yahweh's Body." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (1996): 87-115.
“History after Theory? Biblical Studies and the New Historicism.” Biblical Interpretation 5:4 (1997): 288-98.
"The Quest of the New Historicist Jesus" (with Susan Lochrie Graham). Biblical Interpretation 5:4 (1997): 437-63.
“Taking It Like a Man: Masculinity in 4 Maccabees" (with Janice Capel Anderson).
Journal of Biblical Literature 117:2 (1998): 249-73.
"The Book of Procrastination." Parallax: A Journal of Metadiscursive Theory and Cultural Practices 5:1 (1999): 56-58.
“Between Birmingham and Jerusalem: Biblical Studies and Cultural Studies.” Semeia 82 (2000): 1-32.
“The Song of Songs in the History of Sexuality.” Church History 69:2 (2000): 328-49.
“Radical Orthodox Sex? Francis Watson's Pauline Sexual Ethic.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 25:1 (2002): 97-107.
“Unsafe Sex: Feminism, Pornography, and the Song of Songs” (with Virginia Burrus). Biblical Interpretation 11:1 (2003): 24-52.
“A Modest Manifesto for New Testament Literary Criticism: How to Interface with a Literary Studies Field That Is Post-Literary, Post-Theoretical, and Post-Methodological.” Biblical Interpretation 15:1 (2007): 1-25.
Book Chapters:
"The Lives of Mark." Co-authored with Janice Capel Anderson. Pp. 1-22 in Mark and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies , edited by Janice Capel Anderson and Stephen D. Moore. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.
"Deconstructive Criticism: The Gospel of the Mark." Pp. 84-102 in Anderson and Moore, Mark and Method. Revised version: "Deconstructive Criticism: Reading Mark Inside-Out," in Mark and Method, 2nd ed., forthcoming.
"God's Own (Pri)son: The Disciplinary Technology of the Cross." Pp. 121-39 in The Open Text: New Directions for Biblical Studies?, edited by Francis Watson. London: SCM Press; Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1993.
"How Jesus' Risen Body Became a Cadaver." Pp. 268-81 in The New Literary Criticism of the New Testament, edited by Edgar V. McKnight and Elizabeth Struthers Malbon. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press; Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1994.
“Que(e)rying Paul." Pp. 250-74 in Auguries: The Jubilee Volume of the Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies, edited by David J.A. Clines and Stephen D. Moore. JSOT Supplement Series, 269. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
“Revolting Revelations.” Pp. 183-200 in The Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation, edited by Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger. New York and London: Routledge, 1998.
“Some Ugly Thoughts on the Fourth Gospel at the Threshold of the Third Millenium.” Pp. 239-47 in More Interpretations Than the World Can Contain: Readers and Readings of the Fourth Gospel, edited by Fernando Segovia. SBL Symposium Series, 4. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998.
“Ugly Thoughts: On the Face and Physique of the Historical Jesus.” Pp. 376-99 in
Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies: The Third Sheffield Colloquium, edited by J. Cheryl Exum and Stephen D. Moore. Gender, Culture, Theory, 7; JSOT Supplement Series, 266. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
“Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies” (with J. Cheryl Exum). Pp. 19-45 in Exum and Moore, Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies.
“War Making Men Making War: The Performance of Masculinity in the Revelation to John.” Pp. 84-94 in The Apocalyptic Imagination: Aesthetics and Ethics at the End of the World, edited by S. Brent Plate. Glasgow: Trinity St Mungo Press, 1999.
“Colonialism/Postcolonialism.” Pp. 182-88 in A Handbook for Postmodern Biblical Interpretation, edited by A.K.M. Adam. St Louis: Chalice Press, 2000.
“‘O Man, Who Art Thou...?' Masculinity Studies and New Testament Studies.” Pp. 1-22 in New Testament Masculinities, edited by Stephen D. Moore and Janice Capel Anderson. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Publications; Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 2003.
"Matthew and Masculinity" (with Janice Capel Anderson). Pp. 67-91 in Moore and Anderson. Atlanta: New Testament Masculinities.
“Mark and Empire: ‘Zealot' and ‘Postcolonial' Readings.” Pp. 134-48 in Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire, edited by Catherine Keller, Michael Nausner and Mayra Rivera. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2004.
“Derridapocalypse” (with Catherine Keller). Pp. 189-207 in Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments, edited by Kevin Hart and Yvonne Sherwood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
"Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Beginnings, Trajectories, Intersections ” (with Fernando F. Segovia). Pp. 1-22 in Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Interdisciplinary Intersections, edited by Stephen D. Moore and Fernando F. Segovia. The Bible and Postcolonialism Series. London and New York: T. & T. Clark International.
“Questions of Biblical Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree outside Delhi; or, the Postcolonial and the Postmodern.” Pp. 79-96 in Moore and Segovia, Postcolonial Biblical Criticism.
"Mark and Empire: 'Zealot' and 'Postcolonial' Readings." Pp. 193-205 in The Postcolonial Biblical Reader, edited by R. S. Sugirtharajah. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
"Mark and Empire." Pp. 70-90 in Recognizing the Margins: Developments in Biblical and Theological Studies. Essays in Honor of Sean Freyne, edited by Werner G. Jeanrond and A. D. H. Mayes. Dublin, Ireland: Columba Press, 2006.
“Revelation.” In The Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament, edited by Fernando F. Segovia and R.S. Sugirtharajah. The Bible and Postcolonialism Series. New York: T. & T. Clark International, forthcoming.
“The Book of Empire.” In The Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical Historic Present, edited by Harry O. Meier and Mark Vessey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.
"Postcolonial Readings of the Bible." In The New Cambridge History of the Bible; Volume IV: Modernity, Colonialism, and Their Successors, edited by John Riches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
