Interpretation-A Journal of Bible and Theology

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Nicodemus—A Rabbi Seeking Wisdom6
The First Immigrants: The Migratory Roots of Biblical Identity2
Genesis 18:1–152
Shorter Reviews1
We Speak the Truth: Rhetoric, Epistemology, and Audience Participation in John 3:1–211
Proclaiming the Parables: Preaching and Teaching the Kingdom of God1
Mysticism as a Dimension of Christian Spirituality1
Revelation 7:9-171
Drawn to the Word: The Bible and Graphic Design1
Luke 1–10 and Luke 11-211
Contributors1
Contributors1
Mark 12:13-171
Books of Excess: Humor, Horror, and Trauma in the Books of Esther and Revelation1
“A Plague Broke Out among Them”: Reflections on the Bible and the Pandemic1
Editorial1
Antisemitism in Biblical Interpretation: Causes, Examples, Suggestions1
Where’s He Going? Mark 6:45–520
Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God0
Genesis 50:15-210
Reclaiming Creaturehood: Toward a Wisdom Ecclesiology0
Brian Blount Biography0
“They Put Themselves in Danger, Girls Like That”: Ezekiel 16 and Promising Young Woman0
Practicing the Presence0
Let My People Live: An Africana Reading of Exodus0
Index Volume 760
Shorter Reviews0
She Decides: Reading Genesis 34 in Conversation with Narrative Ethics0
Mirror Mirror on the Wall: The Bible and Ethics in Jordan Peele’s 2019 film Us0
Book Notes0
Women in John’s Gospel0
Isaiah 11:6–90
Editorial0
Major Review: Romans: A Theological and Pastoral Commentary0
Editorial0
Book Notes0
Water Restoration in Genesis 26:18–200
Index for Volume 780
Convivial Gardens: Genesis 2–3 in Agrarian and Space-Critical Perspective0
Water And The Places It Collects0
Major Review: Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right0
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 I0
Book Notes0
John 3:160
Contributors0
Faith, Hope, and Love in the Time of COVID0
Portrayals of Christ in Film0
On “Living Water”: A Baptismal Practical Theology for a Time of Water Crisis0
Book Notes0
Contributors0
Groundwater Depletion: A Global Challenge for Intergenerational Equity0
Acknowledgements0
Come to the Light: Reflections on the Gospel of John0
John 2:13–220
Book Notes Rereading Revelation: Theology, Ethics, and Resistance by CareyGregGrand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2025. 207 pp. $29.99. ISBN 978-0-8028-7812-0.0
Individualization, Mysticism, and the Life of the Church 0
Jonah: A Commentary Jonah: A Commentary by M. ClaassensL. Juliana Old Testament Library. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2024. ISBN 978-0-664-25973-0.0
Divine Anger, Intercession, and Restoration: Theology and Ethics in Job 42:7–100
Luke 17:11-190
Jesus the Purifier: John’s Gospel and the Fourth Quest for the Historical Jesus0
Major Review: The Landscape of the Gospels: A Deeper Meaning0
“Confirmation Statements” and Cosmic Unity in John’s Apocalypse0
Reclaiming History, Confronting Antisemitism: The New Testament in its Jewish Context0
The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People Are Drawn in and How to Talk Across the Divide0
Editorial0
Book Notes A Documentary History of Jewish–Christian Relations: From Antiquity to the Present Day edited by KesslerEdwardWenbornNeilCambridge: Cambridge 0
Galatians 2:15–210
Open-Air Acts: Navigating Life’s Ups and Downs with Comedy and Creativity (Acts 9:23–31; 20:7–12)0
Is Samson Among the Prophets? Samson’s Riddle as Symbol and Play for Power0
Between Text and Sermon: Acts 20:7–120
Dedication to Samuel E. Balentine (1950–2024)0
Living Christ: A Spiritual Reading of the Gospels0
Jesus and Prophets like Jonah: A Message for Womanists and White Christian Nationalists0
Between Text and Sermon: Jeremiah 37–380
Editorial0
Contributors0
An Invitation to Biblical Poetry0
What Are Biblical Values? What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues0
Book Notes0
Where Is the Spirit? Reflections on Engaging AI in Sermon Preparation0
Between Text and Sermon: Jonah 3:1–100
Playing in the Ruins: Humor and the Discipline of Biblical Interpretation0
John 6:51–580
1 Thessalonians 5:16–180
Deuteronomy 7:12–160
Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval0
Editorial0
Contributors0
John Coltrane's Wisdom Psalm: A Love Supreme (1965)0
American Heresy: The Roots and Reach of White Christian Nationalism0
Major Review: Solemn Reverence: The Separation of Church and State in American Life0
Major Reviews Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2024. 162 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-664-2678-34.0
Shorter Reviews Artificial Intelligence and the Apocalyptic Imagination: Artificial Agency and Human Hope by PaulusMichael J.Jr. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2020
Behold: The Book of Job, Simone Weil, and the Crisis of Attention0
The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary0
Restoring Job’s Humanity: A Trauma-Informed Reading of the Book of Job0
Major Review: Scripture and Tradition in the Letters of Paul0
Between Text and Sermon: Psalm 1040
Avengers: The Age of Ultron and the Gospel of John: John 1:1-180
Shorter Reviews0
“The Deliverer Will Come”: Investigating Paul’s Adaptation of Divine Conflict Traditions in Romans0
Between Text and Sermon: Acts 8:26–400
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 A0
Mark 8:27-380
Psalm 320
Pericopes in the Present: Gender, Water, and Flows of Blood in and Beyond Mark 50
John 1–10 and John 11–210
The Oxford Handbook of Johannine Studies0
Between Text and Sermon: Job 40:15–240
The Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor: Hearing Justice in John’s Gospel0
Reinhold Niebuhr Was Wrong0
The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christian Nationalism: A Call to Action0
Contributors0
Editorial0
Come and See: Discipleship in the Gospel of John0
The Church after Innovation: Questioning Our Obsession with Work, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship0
Genesis 25:19–340
Book Notes The Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology edited by AvisPaul Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 672 pp. $59.00. ISBN 978-0-1980
Paul and the Apocalypse of the Gospel0
The Healing Christ in Pandemics: Then and Now0
Book Notes Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 372 pp. $99.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-1-3165-1603-4.0
Book Notes A Lived Theology of Everyday Life: Encountering God in Work, Play, and Culture by DeLashmuttMichael W.Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2025. 178 pp. $24.40
Shorter Reviews0
Major Review: Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity0
Contributors0
Place-Based New Testament Instruction0
Places of Power in Paul’s Letter to the Romans0
Psalm 490
John 12:1–80
The Bible, Disability, and The Chosen0
Editorial0
“My Servant Job Shall Pray for You” 0
The Parting of the Gods: Paul and the Redefinition of Judaism0
An Address to Jews and Other People of Conscience 0
Brian Blount as Eventful Preacher0
Contributors0
Luke 18:1–80
Reading the Psalms Theologically0
The Changing Church and the Challenge of Racial Justice0
Beyond Matthew 25: Ecclesiology in the Twenty-first Century0
The Metonymic Power of Healing Leaves: Reading Revelation 22:2 with the Caryatid Relief0
Contributors0
Spirituality, Illness, and the Bible in Late Antique Gaza0
A Jewish Paul: The Messiah’s Herald to the Gentiles0
Major Reviews0
Shorter Reviews Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus by EdwardsJ. ChristopherMinneapolis: Fortress, 2023. 237 pp. $28.00
Between Text and Sermon: Revelation 22:1–50
2 Corinthians 12:2–100
Johannine (Ambivalent) Hospitality: Explorations for Today0
Black Scholars Matter: Visions, Struggles, and Hopes in Africana Biblical Studies0
Mark 1:10 and 15:380
The Advent of a Three-Body Problem: Artificial Intelligence and Political Theologies0
An Excellent Seminary President0
ChatGPT and Biblical Studies0
Shorter Reviews0
Major Review: Letters to the Johannine Circle: 1–3 John0
Editorial0
The Voice of Our Sister to the Frenemy among Us: Psalm 550
Index 20230
Major Review: Matthew: A Commentary0
The Bible and the African American Experience0
Placing Human Bondage at the Center of the Johannine Community0
Conversational Preaching in the Era of Christian Nationalism?0
Between Text and Sermon: Job 38:39–39:300
Major Review: A Concise Theology of the New Testament0
“Arrogant and Blasphemous Words”? Reading Revelation against and within Authoritarian Rhetoric0
Song of Songs 2:8–130
Genesis and Job: A Cosmic Conversation in Conflict0
Revelation as Reality: Star Trek Deep Space Nine's "Far Beyond the Stars" and Black Prophetic Visions0
Experiencing God in the Gospel of John0
Abraham and the Multiverse0
Major Review: Pauline Dogmatics: The Triumph of God’s Love0
Narrative Mode and Theological Claim in Johannine Literature: Essays in Honor of Gail R. O’Day0
Revelation 1:1–110
On the Way: Religious Experience and Common Life in the Gospels and Letters of Paul0
Editorial0
Bible and Film: The Basics0
Between Text and Sermon: Revelation 3:15–160
Genesis 18:1–150
Eve, Samantha, and Ava: Quintessentially Human0
“Receive the Holy Spirit”0
Between Text and Sermon: Revelation 1:13–170
Wisdom, Truth, and the Limits of Speech in Job and in Plato’s Gorgias0
Acts: An Interpretation Bible Commentary Acts: An Interpretation Bible Commentary by SkinnerMatthew L. Interpretation Bible Commentary. Louisville: Westm0
Editorial0
Editorial0
Major Review: 1 Peter: A Commentary0
Editorial0
Contributors0
Editorial0
Theological Reflections on the Pandemic0
Between Text and Sermon: Luke 13:10–170
Christ Doesn’t Fit: Paul Replaces His Two Age Inheritance with Christ0
Book Notes Friendship in the Book of Job: Art, Context, and Theology from an African Perspective by AidooMark S.Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2024. 318 pp. $41.00
Shorter Reviews Doing Theological Double Dutch: A Womanist Pedagogy of Play by Lockhart-RuschLakisha R.; foreword by ParkerEvelyn L.Grand Rapids: Eerdman0
The Theological Pretension of the Ethical: Reframing the Jewish Significance of Genesis 220
Contributors0
COVID in Nursing Homes: A Call to Repentance0
Can I Be a Witness? A Testimony and Tribute to Brian K. Blount0
Shorter Reviews Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty by CheckettsLeviMinneapolis: Fortress, 2024. 281pp.$46.99. ISBN 970
Contributors0
Apostle to the Machines? Paul’s Euangelion and the Salvation of Artificial Intelligence0
1 Thessalonians 4:13–180
Index Volume 790
So Radically Jewish that He’s an Evangelical Christian: N.T. Wright’s Judeophobic and Privileged Paul0
“Happy Are All Who Take Refuge in Him”: The Theological Shape of the Psalter0
Antisemitism, Anti-Judaism, and Biblical Interpretation0
The Black Hole at the Center of the Psalms0
Major Review: Galatians0
Psalm 850
The Legacy of Antisemitism and the Dating of Deuteronomy0
Editorial0
Contributors0
Mary Magdalene: A Visual History0
Jezebel or Jerusalem: Revelation, Ecclesiastical Purity, and the Christian Response(s)0
The Bible in Christian Nationalist Rhetoric0
Spirituality and Mysticism: Some Historical Resources0
Between Text and Sermon: Luke 17:11–19 and Mark 12:28–340
Contributors0
Major Review: Deep Calls to Deep: The Psalms in Dialogue amid Disruption0
John 10:1–100
“Make Rome Great Again” Preceded “Make America Great Again”: The Ancient Romo-Nationalism of Biblical Writers0
Revelation Revelation by HuberLynn Wisdom Commentary. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2023. 520 pp. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-8146-8209-8.0
Contributors0
Shorter Reviews Job: Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience by BalentineSamuel E. Studies on Personalities of the Old Testament. Minneapolis: F0
Editorial0
The Word from the Beginning: The Person and Work of Jesus in the Gospel of John0
True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament, Second Edition0
Romans 130
Shorter Reviews0
Failing (into) Meaning: Everything Everywhere All At Once and Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes)0
Romans 15:4–130
Romans: A Commentary New Testament Library. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2024. 552 pp. $70.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-664-22100-3.0
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