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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal for the Study of the New Testament 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
5. Matthew	2
7. Luke-Acts	2
John’s Immersions: Ritual Purification, but from What?	2
The Mercy Seat of the Risen Christ: Atonement and the Glory of God in Romans 3.21–26	2
1. New Testament General	1
FH Luke’s ‘Unpicking’: Some Observations on Francis Watson’s Recent Analysis (2018) and the Extent of the Phenomenon	1
3. Jesus	1
Reading New Testament Exorcism Stories in Dialogue with African Pentecostalism: An Illustration from Mark 1.21–28	1
Contributors	1
19. Graeco-Roman	1
Index of Publishers	1
7. Luke–Acts	1
Contributors	1
Ephesians 3.15 as an Allusion to Genesis Abrahamic Covenant Texts in the Context of Household Ecclesiology in Ephesians	1
2. New Testament Topics	0
Pilate, Barabbas, and the Privilegium Paschale : Law and Leverage in Roman Judaea	0
10. Romans	0
Index of Publishers	0
5. Matthew	0
The Narrative Construction of Peter in the Gospel of Mark in Light of the Reports of Displacement and Exile Due to the Armed Conflict in Colombia	0
Abraham’s Paternity and God’s Promise: Another Look at the Context and Syntax of Romans 4.1	0
21. Language	0
Editorial	0
“This Generation” from Mark to Judas: On the Hermeneutics of Intra-gospel Reception	0
Re-Examining the Statistical Methodology and Onomastic Claims of Gregor and Blais’ Argument from Name Popularity	0

Re-Examining Richard Bauckham’s Argument from Name Popularity in Light of Apocryphal and Talmudic Evidence	0
Cosmos (κόσμος) in the Gospel of John: Humanity and the Nonhuman Creation	0
Books Received	0
8. John	0
Contextualizing the Decalogue: The Invention of the Ten-Commandments in Late Ancient Christianity	0
Paul, Pagans and Eschatological Ethnicities: A Response to Denys McDonald	0
Rid Us (Not) of the Temptation: A Note on the Text of Hebrews 11.37	0
Considerations of Age and Demography for Early Christ Groups	0
Decolonizing the New Testament Texts: A Postcolonial Task	0
18. Judaism	0
The Jerusalem Oracle Reconsidered (Mt. 23.37–39): The Grammar of Messianism and the Future Coming of Jesus	0
23. Reception	0
15. Pastoral Epistles	0
Index of Titles	0
A ‘Better Resurrection’ (Hebrews 11.35), but Better Than What?	0
20. Early Christianity	0
The Interpolation of 1 Cor. 14.34–35 and the Reversal of the Name Order of Prisca and Aquila at 1 Cor. 16.19	0
Letter from the Editors	0
4. Gospels	0
4. Gospels	0
12. Galatians	0
Books Received	0
The Construction of Authorial Authority in John and Revelation	0
Mary and Maternal Health: Decolonizing Luke 1–2 Amidst the Crisis of Teen Pregnancy	0
Populating the Middle: The Social Location of the Author of Luke-Acts	0
5. Non-Canonical Texts Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian TraditionEhrmanBart D.New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. xii + 328 pp. $23.00. ISBN 9780300271041	0
On Behalf of Creation: Reading the Destructive Cosmic Eschatology of 2 Peter 3 in the Light of the Transfiguration	0
9. Paul	0
13. Ephesians, Colossians, & Philemon	0
JSNT Special Issue on Creation: Introduction	0
The Son and Scripture in Hebrews 1–2	0
Making an Example: The Rhetorical Usefulness of Timothy in 1 Timothy	0
The Intersectionality of Gender and Slavery: Paul’s Social Creativity within an Unchangeable System	0
Was the Woman with the Flow of Blood Drunk? An Exploration of the Possibility that She Was Viewed as an Anus Ebria	0
Collegia of Brothers? The Semantics of Brotherhood in Greco-Roman Associations and the New Testament	0
Caesar as Title and Name: The Dual Function of καῖσαρ in Mark 12.14–17	0
Melchizedek, the Son of Man, and Eschatological Jubilee: The Sin-Forgiving Messiahs in 11QMelchizedek and Mark	0
8. John	0
Index of Authors	0
Beyond a Slave: Support for the Manumission of Onesimus from Discourse Analysis	0
Series Abbreviations	0
2. New Testament Topics	0
Series Abbreviations	0
21. Language	0
The World Spoken Through the Son: Divine Speech and Creation in the Epistle to the Hebrews	0
Index of Titles	0
23. Reception	0
The Son of Man and the Sea: Hydromachy and Conquest in Mark’s Sea Voyages	0
‘Ex-Pagan Pagans’? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration	0
The Performance of Parrhesia in Philo and Acts	0

Paul’s Rhetorical Efforts to Establish Good Will in First Thessalonians	0
14. Philippians & Thessalonians	0
13. Ephesians, Colossians & Philemon	0
The Quotation of Jer. 31.15 in Mt. 2.18 within Christological Patterning of Matthew’s Nativity According to the Joseph Story	0
As Many as Were Baptised: Re-examining the Relationship Between Faith and Baptism in Galatians 3.27	0
Mark’s Miraculous Disciples: ἤθελεν παρελθεῖν αὐτούς (Mark 6.48) as Jesus’ Desire for the Disciples to Walk on Water	0
Interpreting Capital Punishment in Mark 7.10 in its First Century Context(s)	0
Paul and the Author of 1 Clement as Entrepreneurs of Identity in Corinthian Crises of Leadership	0
The Genre of Mark’s Gospel Is ‘Gospel’: Reconsidering Literary Innovation in the Markan Incipit	0
8. John	0
Tatian and the Arabic Diatessaron: Mark’s Ending as a Case Study	0
Is James’s Greek Really That Good? Evaluating the Quality of James’s Greek and the Probability of Secretarial Assistance for the Authorship Debate	0
20. Early Christianity	0
23. Reception	0
African Cosmology, Hierarchies of Power, and Slave Dynamics in the Book of Philemon	0
Mimetic Mediators in Mark: How Graeco-Roman Biographies Use Secondary Characters to Offer Multiple Patterns of Imitation	0
Reading Scripture in Latin America: An Evangelical Perspective From the Grassroots	0
19. Graeco-Roman	0
Re-thinking God, the Guild and Good Transformation: Introducing (Again) Womanist New Testament Interpretation	0
2. Gospels and Acts Mary of Nazareth: The Mother of Jesus in the Memory of the Earliest ChristiansBryanChristopherNew York: Seabury books, 2024. xii + 240 pp. $28.29. ISBN 9781640657465.	0
4. Gospels	0
From Wounds to Scars: The Embodiment of a Forwarded Past through the Body Marks of Jesus in John 20	0
Are Luke’s Community Summaries in Acts 2 and 4 a Cultural Appeal?	0
Reconsidering the Task, Methods, and Aims of Reading the Gospels in the Present Myanmar Context	0
9. Paul	0
Letter from the New Editor	0
15. Pastoral Epistles	0
Index of Titles	0
22. Textual Criticism	0
10. Romans	0
The Saints of Matthew 27: Why Do they Linger in their Tombs?	0
The Politics of Ear Mutilation: Cropping an Enslaved Person in the Gospel Passion Narratives	0
Contributors	0
12. Galatians	0
18. Judaism	0
5. Matthew	0
21. Language	0
17. Revelation	0
Index of Publishers	0
Index of Authors	0
16. Non-Pauline Letters	0
3. Jesus	0
Examining the ‘Third View’ of Πίστις Χριστοῦ	0
The Salvation of All Israel in Romans 11.26: A New Exegetical Perspective	0
3. Paul 40 Questions about the Apostle PaulEchevarríaMiguel G.LairdBenjaminGrand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic, 2023. xii + 319 pp. $24.99. ISBN 9780825446668.	0
Upon All Flesh: An Ecological Reading of Acts 2.17–21	0
Introduction: Decolonizing New Testament Studies? Beyond Eurocentrism to Reshaping the Discipline	0
Jesus ‘the Just’	0
Index of Authors	0
1. New Testament General and Topics Engaging the New Testament: A Short Introduction for Students and Ministers;Miguel G.EchevarríaGrand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2024. ix + 227 pp. $24.99. ISBN 9781540	0
Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Transformation and Identity in 2 Corinthians 11.13–15	0
16. Non-Pauline Letters	0
The ‘Galilean Q Community’ and the Orientalist Legacy in 2DH Scholarship	0
Index of Titles	0
14. Philippians & Thessalonians	0
He Came and Proclaimed Peace: Christ as Herald in Ephesians 2.17	0
Josephus’s Rhetorical Construction of the Galileans as Proximate Others	0
Doers of Torah: Lights from the Targumim and Their Implication for Jas 1.22	0
The Parousia of the Lord in 1 Thessalonians 4.13–18 as an Adventus	0
Partners in Crime: Reading Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5.1–11) alongside Adam and Eve	0
Index of Authors	0
Happy Reading: Textual Self-Consciousness and Human Flourishing in the Macarisms of Lk 11.28, Gos. Thom. 79.2, and Rev. 1.3	0
10. Romans	0
Series Abbreviations	0
Practicing Safe Sects: Apostasy and Apotropaism in the Damascus Document and Paul	0
Putting the Apocalyptic Jesus to the Sword: Why Were Jesus’s Disciples Armed?	0
The Intrinsic Probability of τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν ὑποτασσέσθωσαν in Eph. 5.22	0
9. Paul	0
Illustrating a Pauline Imperative (Phlm. 17): Προσλαμβάνω in P.Mur. 2.115	0
Did Paul Expect to Survive until the Parousia? A Suggested Re-reading of 1 Cor. 15.51–52	0
Books Received but not Reviewed in this Issue	0
11. Corinthians	0
That We Might Die with Him: Jesus’s Death and Resurrection as a Paradigm for Discipleship in Jn 11.1–12.11	0
15. Pastoral epistles	0
Index of Publishers	0
6. Mark	0
Female Seed as a Metaphor: Queer Kinship in Revelation 12, Ancient Medical and Literary Texts and the Septuagint	0
‘A Little Yeast Leavens the Whole Batch of Dough’: Incest and Pollution in 1 Corinthians 5	0
A Fragmented Revelation: Paragraph Delimitation of John’s Apocalypse in Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Alexandrinus	0
6. Mark	0

The Range of Rejoicing in Luke-Acts: Exploring the Precision and Power of Luke’s Positive Emotion Terminology	0
Revisiting Mercy in Jude: Intervention, Intercession, and the Intruders	0
11. Corinthians	0
Letter from the New Editors	0
God’s New Time Will Assuredly Come: Habakkuk 2.3–4 and the Origin of Eschatological Christ-faith (Πίστις Χριστοῦ) in Paul	0
Food and Gift: On the ‘Words of Institution’ in the Gospel of Mark	0
‘One Thing’: Stoic Discourse and Paul’s Reevaluation of His Jewish Credentials in Phil. 3.1–21	0
Paul’s Iconic Christ among Mediterranean Cult Statues: A Comparison of Divine Images	0
12. Galatians	0
Characters in Conflict: Reconsidering Mark’s Characterization of Demons	0
‘Bear with My Word of Comfort’: Consolatory Strategies in the Letter to the Hebrews	0
2. New Testament Topics	0
The Son of Man Behaving Beastly: Reading Jesus and the Wild Animals of Mk 1.13 with Dan. 4	0
The Spiritless Son of Man: Disentangling λόγος and πνεῦμα in the Fourth Gospel	0
22. Textual Criticism	0
6. Mark	0
The Salvation to All Creation Motif in Rom. 8.18–25: Implications for Asase Yaa Care in Ghana	0
22. Textual Criticism	0
In Defence of ‘Theological’ Readings of the New Testament	0
Christ and Creation in the Synoptic Gospels	0
Contributors	0
Decolonizing New Testament Translation in the Indian Context: John 10.1–18 in the Satya Veda Pusthakam	0
19. Graeco-Roman	0
Synoptic Singularity? The Chronicler’s Redaction of Samuel-Kings and Gospel Composition	0
The Perils of Premature Judgment: Reading Matthew 21.18–22.14 with the Fig Tree	0
Age, Maternity, and Allusion: Elizabeth and Other Mothers	0
Matthew 13.1–9 and Soil Degradation: A Subaltern and Ecological Reading	0
Fearful and Joyous Old Men: Old Age, Masculinity, and Emotions in Luke’s Account of Zechariah (Lk. 1) and the Fables of Babrios ( Fab . 98, 136)	0
‘The Spirit of Jesus’ in Acts 16.7: An Ethnographic Reading	0
Understanding the Abyssal Forces in the Fifth Trumpet Judgment (Rev. 9.1–12) in Light of the Demonology of Jubilees	0
Bond, Favour Bank, and Social Capital: A Social-Scientific Reading of the Parable of the Dishonest Steward in Luke 16.1–9	0
14. Philippians & Thessalonians	0
Gnats, Camels, and Matthew’s Use of Luke	0
11. Corinthians	0
Mark’s σπεκουλάτωρ and the Origin of His Gospel	0
Mata o Masiasi (Face of Shame): Resituating Paul’s Fool’s Speech Within the Contours of Samoan Rhetoric	0
3. Jesus	0
1. New Testament General	0
17. Revelation	0
Epicurean Critical Praxis and Philonian Metaphor in Johannine Parrhêsia	0
Torah and Divine Revelation in Three Jewish Texts: 4QInstruction, Wisdom of Solomon and the Fourth Gospel	0
God, Grace, and Equality in 2 Cor. 8.13–14	0
1. New Testament General	0
KΛINH / KΛINIΔION: A Note on Two Minor Agreements (Mt 9.2, 6 / Lk 5.18, 24)	0
Social Fractures in the Habitus : Paul’s κατάρτισ- Language of Preventative and Responsive Care	0
7. Luke–Acts	0
Malleable Masculinity: Rethinking Paul’s Masculinity in Light of Valerius Maximus	0
16. Non-Pauline Letters	0
4. Other Letters and Revelation From Qumran to Jude: A History of Social Crisis at Qumran and in Early Jewish ChristianityArmitageChrisSheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2023. xi + 195 pp. £85.00. IS	0
Re-Judaizing Jesus: Remembering the Sacrificial Cult in the Gospel of Matthew	0
20. Early Christianity	0
Reading Luke 2.41–52 in the Post-War Context: War Trauma, Intergenerational Tension, and Therapeutic Reading Experience	0
17. Revelation	0
Finding Out the Things of God: A Dialogue on Matthew Sharp’s Divination and Philosophy in the Letters of Paul and New Testament Studies	0
18. Judaism	0
The Fig Tree at the End of the World: Reading Mark 11:12–25 and Enduring Creaturely Violence	0
13. Ephesians, Colossians, & Philemon	0
The Rhetoric and Ethic of Translating and Representing Enslaved Persons in New Testament and Early Christian Studies	0
Thomas the (Un)Faithful: Πιστός in John 20.27	0
Decolonizing New Testament Studies: A Māori Perspective	0