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Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
John’s Immersions: Ritual Purification, but from What?	3
7. Luke-Acts	2
The Mercy Seat of the Risen Christ: Atonement and the Glory of God in Romans 3.21–26	2
5. Matthew	2
3. Jesus	1
Satan’s Imprisonment (Rev. 20) and Allusions to 1 Enoch 10, 54–57, and the Day of Atonement	1
Reading New Testament Exorcism Stories in Dialogue with African Pentecostalism: An Illustration from Mark 1.21–28	1
12. Galatians	1
Index of Publishers	1
A Retrospective on ‘House’ in the Gospel of Mark: A Reflection	1
Contributors	1
Synoptic Singularity? The Chronicler’s Redaction of Samuel-Kings and Gospel Composition	1
5. Matthew	1
7. Luke–Acts	1
The Jerusalem Oracle Reconsidered (Mt. 23.37–39): The Grammar of Messianism and the Future Coming of Jesus	1
Contributors	1
19. Graeco-Roman	1
A ‘Better Resurrection’ (Hebrews 11.35), but Better Than What?	1
1. New Testament General	1
Ephesians 3.15 as an Allusion to Genesis Abrahamic Covenant Texts in the Context of Household Ecclesiology in Ephesians	1
22. Textual Criticism	0
Index of Titles	0
11. Corinthians	0
Was the Woman with the Flow of Blood Drunk? An Exploration of the Possibility that She Was Viewed as an Anus Ebria	0
JSNT Special Issue on Creation: Introduction	0

Paul’s Iconic Christ among Mediterranean Cult Statues: A Comparison of Divine Images	0
Cosmos (κόσμος) in the Gospel of John: Humanity and the Nonhuman Creation	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
23. Reception	0
Decolonizing New Testament Translation in the Indian Context: John 10.1–18 in the Satya Veda Pusthakam	0
20. Early Christianity	0
The Salvation to All Creation Motif in Rom. 8.18–25: Implications for Asase Yaa Care in Ghana	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
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
The Quotation of Jer. 31.15 in Mt. 2.18 within Christological Patterning of Matthew’s Nativity According to the Joseph Story	0
17. Revelation	0
1. New Testament General	0
The Parousia of the Lord in 1 Thessalonians 4.13–18 as an Adventus	0
‘A Little Yeast Leavens the Whole Batch of Dough’: Incest and Pollution in 1 Corinthians 5	0
The Rhetoric and Ethic of Translating and Representing Enslaved Persons in New Testament and Early Christian Studies	0
9. Paul	0
Age, Maternity, and Allusion: Elizabeth and Other Mothers	0
Collegia of Brothers? The Semantics of Brotherhood in Greco-Roman Associations and the New Testament	0
The Performance of Parrhesia in Philo and Acts	0
3. Jesus	0
4. Gospels	0
The ‘Galilean Q Community’ and the Orientalist Legacy in 2DH Scholarship	0
A Fragmented Revelation: Paragraph Delimitation of John’s Apocalypse in Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Alexandrinus	0
The House, the Table, and the Message: Spatial Dynamics in the Synoptic Gospels	0
Mata o Masiasi (Face of Shame): Resituating Paul’s Fool’s Speech Within the Contours of Samoan Rhetoric	0
Pilate, Barabbas, and the Privilegium Paschale : Law and Leverage in Roman Judaea	0
‘The Spirit of Jesus’ in Acts 16.7: An Ethnographic Reading	0
3. Jesus	0
13. Ephesians, Colossians, & Philemon	0
20. Early Christianity	0
Mimetic Mediators in Mark: How Graeco-Roman Biographies Use Secondary Characters to Offer Multiple Patterns of Imitation	0
The Intersectionality of Gender and Slavery: Paul’s Social Creativity within an Unchangeable System	0
Contributors	0
Malleable Masculinity: Rethinking Paul’s Masculinity in Light of Valerius Maximus	0
Index of Titles	0
Gender, Coloniality, and Revelation	0
14. Philippians & Thessalonians	0
That We Might Die with Him: Jesus’s Death and Resurrection as a Paradigm for Discipleship in Jn 11.1–12.11	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
Contributors	0
14. Philippians & Thessalonians	0
Re-Examining Richard Bauckham’s Argument from Name Popularity in Light of Apocryphal and Talmudic Evidence	0
‘Better Than I Ever Was’: ‘Not Enslaved’ as a Higher Status in 1 Corinthians 7.15	0
Revelation, Gender, and the ‘Brooten Phenomenon’	0
The Gerasene Pericope and Disability Studies: Irony, Empire, and (In)complete Reintegration in Mk 5.1–20	0
Series Abbreviations	0
Introduction: Decolonizing New Testament Studies? Beyond Eurocentrism to Reshaping the Discipline	0
A Tomb Fit for a Prophet: An Investigation into the Historical Plausibility of the Gospel Burial Accounts	0
10. Romans	0
19. Graeco-Roman	0

Interpreting Capital Punishment in Mark 7.10 in its First Century Context(s)	0
21. Language	0
Black Trans Flourishing as a Sign (Semeia) of the Future: Revelation 12	0
13. Ephesians, Colossians & Philemon	0
16. Non-Pauline Letters	0
African Cosmology, Hierarchies of Power, and Slave Dynamics in the Book of Philemon	0
Response: Babylon Is Burning: The Futures of Apocalyptic Sex	0
Reconsidering the Task, Methods, and Aims of Reading the Gospels in the Present Myanmar Context	0
17. Revelation	0
Considerations of Age and Demography for Early Christ Groups	0
From Wounds to Scars: The Embodiment of a Forwarded Past through the Body Marks of Jesus in John 20	0
Examining the ‘Third View’ of Πίστις Χριστοῦ	0
18. Judaism	0
7. Luke–Acts	0
Series Abbreviations	0
2. New Testament Topics	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
God’s New Time Will Assuredly Come: Habakkuk 2.3–4 and the Origin of Eschatological Christ-faith (Πίστις Χριστοῦ) in Paul	0
Simon Peter’s Wife in (and out of) Early Christian Writings	0
15. Pastoral Epistles	0
20. Early Christianity	0
The Salvation of All Israel in Romans 11.26: A New Exegetical Perspective	0
Re-Examining the Statistical Methodology and Onomastic Claims of Gregor and Blais’ Argument from Name Popularity	0
Decolonizing New Testament Studies: A Māori Perspective	0
The World Spoken Through the Son: Divine Speech and Creation in the Epistle to the Hebrews	0
11. Corinthians	0
12. Galatians	0
Language Games and the Meaning(s) of ‘Meaning’: Two Problems with Jonathan Rowlands’s Defense of ‘Theological Readings’	0
4. Gospels	0
The Son of Man and the Sea: Hydromachy and Conquest in Mark’s Sea Voyages	0
Ethnic Differentiations in Sin? Mapping Jewish Sin in Romans	0
Understanding the Abyssal Forces in the Fifth Trumpet Judgment (Rev. 9.1–12) in Light of the Demonology of Jubilees	0
15. Pastoral epistles	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 Fig Tree at the End of the World: Reading Mark 11:12–25 and Enduring Creaturely Violence	0
The Genre of Mark’s Gospel Is ‘Gospel’: Reconsidering Literary Innovation in the Markan Incipit	0
3. Paul 40 Questions about the Apostle PaulEchevarríaMiguel G.LairdBenjaminGrand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic, 2023. xii + 319 pp. $24.99. ISBN 9780825446668.	0
Re-Judaizing Jesus: Remembering the Sacrificial Cult in the Gospel of Matthew	0
22. Textual Criticism	0
On Behalf of Creation: Reading the Destructive Cosmic Eschatology of 2 Peter 3 in the Light of the Transfiguration	0
Home in Time for Dinner: Family and the Call to Discipleship within Mark’s Gospel	0
Index of Authors	0
Whose House? Revisiting the Referent of αὐτοῦ in Mark 2.15	0
Practicing Safe Sects: Apostasy and Apotropaism in the Damascus Document and Paul	0
Gnats, Camels, and Matthew’s Use of Luke	0
2. New Testament Topics	0
Populating the Middle: The Social Location of the Author of Luke-Acts	0
In Defence of ‘Theological’ Readings of the New Testament	0
21. Language	0
16. Non-Pauline Letters	0
Paul, Pagans and Eschatological Ethnicities: A Response to Denys McDonald	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
Index of Publishers	0
Abraham’s Paternity and God’s Promise: Another Look at the Context and Syntax of Romans 4.1	0
Index of Authors	0
14. Philippians & Thessalonians	0
Editorial	0
18. Judaism	0
Reading Luke 2.41–52 in the Post-War Context: War Trauma, Intergenerational Tension, and Therapeutic Reading Experience	0
Books Received but not Reviewed in this Issue	0
11. Corinthians	0
God, Grace, and Equality in 2 Cor. 8.13–14	0
Index of Publishers	0
16. Non-Pauline Letters	0
Flipping the Script in Phil. 2.6b: Setting ἁρπαγµός in the Religious Context of First Century Philippi	0
The Range of Rejoicing in Luke-Acts: Exploring the Precision and Power of Luke’s Positive Emotion Terminology	0
Decolonizing the New Testament Texts: A Postcolonial Task	0
The Construction of Authorial Authority in John and Revelation	0
Upon All Flesh: An Ecological Reading of Acts 2.17–21	0
6. Mark	0
Introduction to ‘Jesus, House, Family: From Mark 2.15 to Constructions of Discipleship’	0
Letter from the New Editor	0
From the Editor	0
Putting the Apocalyptic Jesus to the Sword: Why Were Jesus’s Disciples Armed?	0
Books Received	0
The Politics of Ear Mutilation: Cropping an Enslaved Person in the Gospel Passion Narratives	0
Gender in the Apocalypse: A Story of Containers	0
Revisiting Mercy in Jude: Intervention, Intercession, and the Intruders	0
8. John	0
8. John	0

Josephus’s Rhetorical Construction of the Galileans as Proximate Others	0
10. Romans	0
Books Received	0
19. Graeco-Roman	0
2. New Testament Topics	0
6. Mark	0
KΛINH / KΛINIΔION: A Note on Two Minor Agreements (Mt 9.2, 6 / Lk 5.18, 24)	0
Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Transformation and Identity in 2 Corinthians 11.13–15	0
Contextualizing the Decalogue: The Invention of the Ten-Commandments in Late Ancient Christianity	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
Doers of Torah: Lights from the Targumim and Their Implication for Jas 1.22	0
5. Matthew	0
As Many as Were Baptised: Re-examining the Relationship Between Faith and Baptism in Galatians 3.27	0
Index of Titles	0
Are Luke’s Community Summaries in Acts 2 and 4 a Cultural Appeal?	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
Mary and Maternal Health: Decolonizing Luke 1–2 Amidst the Crisis of Teen Pregnancy	0
Melchizedek, the Son of Man, and Eschatological Jubilee: The Sin-Forgiving Messiahs in 11QMelchizedek and Mark	0
9. Paul	0
4. Gospels	0
Thomas the (Un)Faithful: Πιστός in John 20.27	0
Caesar as Title and Name: The Dual Function of καῖσαρ in Mark 12.14–17	0
The Intrinsic Probability of τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν ὑποτασσέσθωσαν in Eph. 5.22	0
The Pernicious Supremacy of the Christian Codex	0
18. Judaism	0
23. Reception	0
The Screaming Apocalypse: Revelation, Gender, and the Coloniality of Knowledge	0
Illustrating a Pauline Imperative (Phlm. 17): Προσλαμβάνω in P.Mur. 2.115	0
Revisiting Jesus’s House	0
Beyond a Slave: Support for the Manumission of Onesimus from Discourse Analysis	0
Decoding Mark’s Messianic Secret with Georg Simmel	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
Mark’s σπεκουλάτωρ and the Origin of His Gospel	0
‘Bear with My Word of Comfort’: Consolatory Strategies in the Letter to the Hebrews	0
9. Paul	0
12. Galatians	0
Partners in Crime: Reading Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5.1–11) alongside Adam and Eve	0
Making an Example: The Rhetorical Usefulness of Timothy in 1 Timothy	0
8. John	0
Relapsing, Reverting, or Rejecting? The Purpose of Hebrews and Early Jewish Religion	0
He Came and Proclaimed Peace: Christ as Herald in Ephesians 2.17	0
Tatian and the Arabic Diatessaron: Mark’s Ending as a Case Study	0
21. Language	0
Specifying πορνεία in Matthew 5.32 and 19.9 via Overlooked Contextualization	0
Redescribing the Pauline Corpus as a Pseudonymous Collection of the Second Century	0
15. Pastoral Epistles	0
Characters in Conflict: Reconsidering Mark’s Characterization of Demons	0
Index of Titles	0
Series Abbreviations	0
Index of Authors	0
Did Paul Expect to Survive until the Parousia? A Suggested Re-reading of 1 Cor. 15.51–52	0
Introduction to Special Issue: The Future of Revelation and Gender Studies	0
Index of Authors	0
Female Seed as a Metaphor: Queer Kinship in Revelation 12, Ancient Medical and Literary Texts and the Septuagint	0
Matthew 13.1–9 and Soil Degradation: A Subaltern and Ecological Reading	0
Epicurean Critical Praxis and Philonian Metaphor in Johannine Parrhêsia	0
22. Textual Criticism	0
Index of Publishers	0
17. Revelation	0
Mark 2.15 in Even Broader Context: A Reflection	0
Social Fractures in the Habitus : Paul’s κατάρτισ- Language of Preventative and Responsive Care	0
Jesus ‘the Just’	0
23. Reception	0
The Spiritless Son of Man: Disentangling λόγος and πνεῦμα in the Fourth Gospel	0
10. Romans	0
‘One Thing’: Stoic Discourse and Paul’s Reevaluation of His Jewish Credentials in Phil. 3.1–21	0
The Perils of Premature Judgment: Reading Matthew 21.18–22.14 with the Fig Tree	0
Christ and Creation in the Synoptic Gospels	0
“This Generation” from Mark to Judas: On the Hermeneutics of Intra-gospel Reception	0
13. Ephesians, Colossians, & Philemon	0
Bond, Favour Bank, and Social Capital: A Social-Scientific Reading of the Parable of the Dishonest Steward in Luke 16.1–9	0
The Son of Man Behaving Beastly: Reading Jesus and the Wild Animals of Mk 1.13 with Dan. 4	0
1. New Testament General	0
Reading Scripture in Latin America: An Evangelical Perspective From the Grassroots	0
6. Mark	0