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Papers

(The median citation count of Interpretation-A Journal of Bible and Theology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Work We Can’t Ignore: Preaching and Gun Violence	4
Genesis 18:1–15	2
Shorter Reviews	2
Mysticism as a Dimension of Christian Spirituality	1
Luke 1–10 and Luke 11-21	1
We Speak the Truth: Rhetoric, Epistemology, and Audience Participation in John 3:1–21	1
Nicodemus—A Rabbi Seeking Wisdom	1
Editorial	1
Contributors	1
Major Review: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century	1
“A Plague Broke Out among Them”: Reflections on the Bible and the Pandemic	1
Drawn to the Word: The Bible and Graphic Design	1
Proclaiming the Parables: Preaching and Teaching the Kingdom of God	1
Contributors	1
The First Immigrants: The Migratory Roots of Biblical Identity	1
Shorter Reviews	1
Mark 12:13-17	1
Conversational Preaching in the Era of Christian Nationalism?	0
Index 2023	0
Genesis 50:15-21	0
Major Review: Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon	0
1 Thessalonians 5:16–18	0
The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary	0
Shorter Reviews	0
Eve, Samantha, and Ava: Quintessentially Human	0

Psalm 32	0
Book Notes	0
Their Cross Problem and Ours: Thoughts on the Aesthetic of Crucifixion	0
Exodus 6:1–13	0
Antisemitism in Biblical Interpretation: Causes, Examples, Suggestions	0
Christians and Muslims in Egypt	0
A Jewish Paul: The Messiah’s Herald to the Gentiles	0
Com fôlego e látego: violência, armas e os limites da resistência no livro de Isaías	0
Water Restoration in Genesis 26:18–20	0
She Decides: Reading Genesis 34 in Conversation with Narrative Ethics	0
Book Notes	0
Contributors	0
Major Review: Romans: A Theological and Pastoral Commentary	0
Editorial	0
Major Review: Deep Calls to Deep: The Psalms in Dialogue amid Disruption	0
Bible and Film: The Basics	0
Mark and Paul: Comparing the Oldest Extant Literary Works and Theological Ideas of Early Christianity Mark and Paul: Comparing the Oldest Extant Literary Works and Theological I	0
Jesus the Purifier: John’s Gospel and the Fourth Quest for the Historical Jesus	0
Revelation 7:9-17	0
Contributors	0
Portrayals of Christ in Film	0
Major Review: The Landscape of the Gospels: A Deeper Meaning	0
Mark 8:27-38	0
At the Border of Christian Learning: Islamic Thought and Constructive Christian Theology	0
Convivial Gardens: Genesis 2–3 in Agrarian and Space-Critical Perspective	0
Contributors	0
“Receive the Holy Spirit”	0
Place-Based New Testament Instruction	0
Black Scholars Matter: Visions, Struggles, and Hopes in Africana Biblical Studies	0
Mending What Is Broken: The Logic of the Cross in 1 Corinthians	0
Places of Power in Paul’s Letter to the Romans	0
Genesis 18:1–15	0
American Heresy: The Roots and Reach of White Christian Nationalism	0
John 12:1–8	0
The Bible, Disability, and The Chosen	0
Reclaiming History, Confronting Antisemitism: The New Testament in its Jewish Context	0
Editorial	0
The Healing Christ in Pandemics: Then and Now	0
1 Thessalonians 4:13–18	0
Contributors	0
The Black Hole at the Center of the Psalms	0
Luke 18:1–8	0
Between Text and Sermon: Luke 13:10–17	0
Johannine (Ambivalent) Hospitality: Explorations for Today	0
Shorter Reviews	0
With Breath and Bludgeon: Violence, Weaponry, and the Limits of Resistance in Isaiah	0
Brian Blount as Eventful Preacher	0
Dangerous Memory: An Antiracist Political Theology of the Cross	0
“Happy Are All Who Take Refuge in Him”: The Theological Shape of the Psalter	0
So Radically Jewish that He’s an Evangelical Christian: N.T. Wright’s Judeophobic and Privileged Paul	0

Revelation as Reality: Star Trek Deep Space Nine's "Far Beyond the Stars" and Black Prophetic Visions	0
Judges 4:17–24	0
Jesus and Prophets like Jonah: A Message for Womanists and White Christian Nationalists	0
On “Living Water”: A Baptismal Practical Theology for a Time of Water Crisis	0
Contributors	0
Between Text and Sermon: Jeremiah 37–38	0
Shorter Reviews Turning Points in American Church History: How Pivotal Events Shaped a Nation and a Faith by CoffmanElesha J.; foreword by Mark A. Noll A	0
Editorial	0
Genesis and Job: A Cosmic Conversation in Conflict	0
Where’s He Going? Mark 6:45–52	0
Reclaiming Creaturehood: Toward a Wisdom Ecclesiology	0
Failing (into) Meaning: Everything Everywhere All At Once and Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes)	0
Avengers: The Age of Ultron and the Gospel of John: John 1:1-18	0
Book Notes	0
Ephesians 6:10–20	0
Major Review: Matthew: A Commentary	0
Self Defense is Killing Us	0
Revelation 1:1–11	0
Paul and the Apocalypse of the Gospel	0
Let My People Live: An Africana Reading of Exodus	0
The Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor: Hearing Justice in John’s Gospel	0
ChatGPT and Biblical Studies	0
Index Volume 76	0
Editorial	0
Editorial	0
Brian Blount Biography	0
Major Review: A Concise Theology of the New Testament	0
John 1–10 and John 11–21	0
Contributors	0
Book Notes	0
The Theological Pretension of the Ethical: Reframing the Jewish Significance of Genesis 22	0
Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God	0
Book Notes	0
The Bible and the African American Experience	0
Narrative Mode and Theological Claim in Johannine Literature: Essays in Honor of Gail R. O’Day	0
Mark 1:10 and 15:38	0
Major Review: Scripture and Tradition in the Letters of Paul	0
Between Text and Sermon: Acts 8:26–40	0
The Advent of a Three-Body Problem: Artificial Intelligence and Political Theologies	0
Theological Reflections on the Pandemic	0
Shorter Reviews	0
Water And The Places It Collects	0
Individualization, Mysticism, and the Life of the Church	0
Book Notes	0
Editorial	0
Shorter Reviews Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty by CheckettsLeviMinneapolis: Fortress, 2024. 281pp.$46.99. ISBN 978-1-5064-8231-6.	0
Early Islam: An Arab Christian Perspective	0
Beyond Matthew 25: Ecclesiology in the Twenty-first Century	0
Book Notes A Documentary History of Jewish–Christian Relations: From Antiquity to the Present Day edited by KesslerEdwardWenbornNeilCambridge: Cambridge University Press	0
Isaiah 11:6–9	0
Contributors	0
The Church after Innovation: Questioning Our Obsession with Work, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship	0
Contributors	0
Major Review: Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability and the Body of Christ by Brian R. Brock	0
The Oxford Handbook of Johannine Studies	0
Book Notes	0
“Make Rome Great Again” Preceded “Make America Great Again”: The Ancient Romo-Nationalism of Biblical Writers	0
Come to the Light: Reflections on the Gospel of John	0
Abraham and the Multiverse	0
Guns, Grief, and Longing for God’s Grace: A Pastor’s Perspective on Guns and Gun Violence	0
Contributors	0
Acknowledgements	0
Groundwater Depletion: A Global Challenge for Intergenerational Equity	0
“They Put Themselves in Danger, Girls Like That”: Ezekiel 16 and Promising Young Woman	0
Reading the Psalms Theologically	0
Contributors	0
Christ Doesn’t Fit: Paul Replaces His Two Age Inheritance with Christ	0
Book Notes Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 372 pp. $99.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-1-3165-1603-4.	0
The Legacy of Antisemitism and the Dating of Deuteronomy	0
John 3:16	0
Major Review: Letters to the Johannine Circle: 1–3 John	0
Editorial	0
Deuteronomy 7:12–16	0
Galatians 2:15–21	0
Book Notes	0
Luke 17:11-19	0
Editorial	0
An Address to Jews and Other People of Conscience	0
What Are Biblical Values? What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues	0
Editorial	0

2 Corinthians 12:2–10	0
Protestant Portrayals of Islam: From the Reformation to Modern Missions	0
Editorial	0
Spirituality, Illness, and the Bible in Late Antique Gaza	0
An Excellent Seminary President	0
Index for Volume 78	0
Living Christ: A Spiritual Reading of the Gospels	0
Genesis 22:1–19	0
John 10:1–10	0
Mirror Mirror on the Wall: The Bible and Ethics in Jordan Peele’s 2019 film Us	0
Major Review: Pauline Dogmatics: The Triumph of God’s Love	0
Romans 13	0
Major Reviews	0
Romans: A Commentary New Testament Library. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2024. 552 pp. $70.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-664-22100-3.	0
John Coltrane's Wisdom Psalm: A Love Supreme (1965)	0
Between Text and Sermon: Luke 17:11–19 and Mark 12:28–34	0
Major Review: God and Guns: The Bible against American Gun Culture	0
“The Deliverer Will Come”: Investigating Paul’s Adaptation of Divine Conflict Traditions in Romans	0
The Changing Church and the Challenge of Racial Justice	0
Women in John’s Gospel	0
Come and See: Discipleship in the Gospel of John	0
Shorter Reviews	0
Mark 15:16–32	0
Shorter Reviews	0
The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christian Nationalism: A Call to Action	0
Experiencing God in the Gospel of John	0
Editorial	0
True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament, Second Edition	0
Shorter Reviews	0
Song of Songs 2:8–13	0
Editorial	0
An Invitation to Biblical Poetry	0
Practicing the Presence	0
On the Way: Religious Experience and Common Life in the Gospels and Letters of Paul	0
Pericopes in the Present: Gender, Water, and Flows of Blood in and Beyond Mark 5	0
Major Review: Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope	0
Contributors	0
The Cross as God’s Self-Exegesis: Some Contributions from Paul and John	0
Placing Human Bondage at the Center of the Johannine Community	0
COVID in Nursing Homes: A Call to Repentance	0
Major Review: 2 Kings	0
Major Review: 1 Peter: A Commentary	0
Genesis 25:19–34	0
Major Review: Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right	0
The Bible in Christian Nationalist Rhetoric	0
Major Review: Solemn Reverence: The Separation of Church and State in American Life	0
Where Is the Spirit? Reflections on Engaging AI in Sermon Preparation	0
Faith, Hope, and Love in the Time of COVID	0
Index Volume 79	0
Major Review: Luke by F. Scott Spencer	0
The Islamic Mary as a Protagonist and Qur’anic Daughter	0
Psalm 49	0
Contributors	0
Major Review: Women in the Bible	0
Psalm 85	0
Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval	0
Editorial	0
Can I Be a Witness? A Testimony and Tribute to Brian K. Blount	0
Galatians 6:9–18	0
John 6:51–58	0
Antisemitism, Anti-Judaism, and Biblical Interpretation	0
Contributors	0
1 Peter 2:18–25	0
John 2:13–22	0
The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People Are Drawn in and How to Talk Across the Divide	0
Book Notes The Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology edited by AvisPaul Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 672 pp. $59.00. ISBN 978-0-198	0
Romans 15:4–13	0
Major Review: Judges	0
The Word from the Beginning: The Person and Work of Jesus in the Gospel of John	0
Major Review: Galatians	0
Contributors	0
The Parting of the Gods: Paul and the Redefinition of Judaism	0
Spirituality and Mysticism: Some Historical Resources	0
1 Samuel 17	0
The Voice of Our Sister to the Frenemy among Us: Psalm 55	0
Apostle to the Machines? Paul’s Euangelion and the Salvation of Artificial Intelligence	0
Major Review: Constructing Paul (The Canonical Paul, Vol.1) by Luke Timothy Johnson	0
Shorter Reviews Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus by EdwardsJ. ChristopherMinneapolis: Fortress, 2023. 237 pp. $28.00 (cloth). ISBN	0
Major Review: Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity	0
Matthew 11:1–10 (with Qur’an 3:48-51)	0
Editorial	0
Editorial	0
Mary Magdalene: A Visual History	0
Shorter Reviews	0
Major Reviews Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2024. 162 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-664-2678-34.	0