Interpretation-A Journal of Bible and Theology

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