James Kelhoffer

Biography

Publications

Selection of publications

• Der Verfolger als Gottes Widersacher in der Apostelgeschichte (2016)
• En svensk översättning av Eusebios ad Marinum I.1–II.1 (2015)
• If Second Clement Really Were a "Sermon," How Would We Know, and Why Would We Care? (2015)
• Conceptions of “Gospel” and Legitimacy in Early Christianity (2014)
• Reciprocity as Salvation (2013)
• Die Johannesapokalypse (2012)
• Nya testamentets exegetik som akademiskt ämne med relevans för andra ämnen (2012)
• The Maccabees at Prayer (2011)
• The Search for Confessors at the Council of Nicaea (2011)
• Women and Gender in Ancient Religions (2010)
• Persecution, Persuasion and Power (2010)
• ‘Hippolytus,’ Magic and ‘Heretical’ Miracle Workers  (2007)
• Basilides’s Gospel and Exegetica (Treatises) (2005)

Recent publications

• Why We Sing (2023)
• Introduction (2022)
• Passing the Audition (2022)
• Populism and Biblical Studies, Part 2 (2022)
• Populism and Biblical Studies, Part 1 (2022)

All publications

Articles

• Populism and Biblical Studies, Part 2 (2022)
• Populism and Biblical Studies, Part 1 (2022)
• In Memoriam Lars Hartman (2020)
• Eschatology, Androgynous Thinking, Encratism, and the Question of Anti-Gnosticism in 2 Clement 12 (Part Two) (2018)
• Eschatology, Androgynous Thinking, Encratism, and the Question of Anti-Gnosticism in 2 Clement 12 (Part One) (2018)
• How Did Second Clement Originally End? (2018)
• Second Clement and Gnosticism (2017)
• Simplistic Presentations of Biblical Authority and Christian Origins in the Service of Anti-Catholic Dogma (2017)
• A Diverse Academy Recognizes No Boundaries for Critical Inquiry and Debate (2017)
• Second Clement and Gnosticism (2017)
• Wilhelm Pratscher, Der zweite Clemensbrief; Christopher Tuckett, 2 Clement (2017)
• Pigeonholing a Prooftexter? (2016)
• Pigeonholing a Prooftexter? (2016)
• Recensioner (2016)
• 2 Clement (2015)
• Response to Denise Kimber Buell (2014)
• Reciprocity as Salvation (2013)
• New Testament Exegesis as an Academic Discipline with Relevance for Other Disciplines (2013)
• Nya testamentets exegetik som akademiskt ämne med relevans för andra ämnen (2012)
• The Gradual Disclosure of Paul’s Violence Against Christians in the Acts of the Apostles as an Apology for the Standing of the Lukan Paul (2012)
• Nya testamentets exegetik som akademiskt ämne med relevans för andra ämnen (2012)
• The Maccabees at Prayer (2011)
• The Search for Confessors at the Council of Nicaea (2011)
• Withstanding Persecution as a Corroboration of Legitimacy in the New Testament (2011)
• Book review of In the Shadow of the Incarnation: Essays on Jesus Christ in the Early Church in Honor of Brian E. Daley, S.J. Edited by Peter W. Martens.  (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2008). (2010)
• Studying the Bible without (Much) Knowledge of Greek (or Hebrew): A Conversation with William D. Mounce’s Greek for the Rest of Us and Reverse Interlinear (2009)
• Suffering as Defense of Paul’s Apostolic Authority in Galatians and 2 Corinthians 11 (2009)
• Early Christian Studies among the Academic Disciplines (2007)
• ‘Hippolytus,’ Magic and ‘Heretical’ Miracle Workers  (2007)
• Suppressing Anger in Early Christianity (2007)
• Das Kreuz Christi bei Irenäus von Lyon (2005)
• The Gospel of Matthew’s Dependence on the Didache (2005)
• John the Baptist’s ‘Wild Honey’ and the Ambiguity of Certain References to ‘Honey’ in Antiquity (2005)
• Basilides’s Gospel and Exegetica (Treatises) (2005)
• Did John the Baptist Eat Like a Former Essene? (2004)
• 'How Soon a Book’ Revisited (2004)
• The Struggle To Define Heilsgeschichte (2003)
• ‘Locusts and Wild Honey’ (Mark 1:6c and Matt 3:4c) (2003)
• Mark (2003)
• Hearing the Whole Story (2002)
• Vom Evangelium des Markus zum viergestaltigen Evangelium (2002)
• Miracles in Jewish and Christian Antiquity (2001)
• The Witness of Eusebius’ ad Marinum and Other Christian Writings to Text-Critical Debates concerning the Original Conclusion to Mark’s Gospel (2001)
• The Apostle Paul and Justin Martyr on the Miraculous (2001)
• A Multiform Heritage (2000)
• Ordinary Christians as Miracle-Workers in the New Testament and the Second- and Third-Century Christian Apologists (1999)
• The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus (1999)
• One Right Reading? (1999)
• The New Testament (1999)
• The Risen Lord (1998)
• Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Gospel of Matthew (1998)
• Response to Jack Dean Kingsbury, ‘The Significance of the Earthly Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew’ (1998)
• Aspects of Religious Contact and Conflict in the Ancient World (1997)
• Religion and Power (1997)

Books

• Why We Sing (2023)
• Celebrating Arthur Darby Nock (2021)
• The Catholic Epistles, Hebrews, and Revelation (2016)
• Conceptions of “Gospel” and Legitimacy in Early Christianity (2014)
• The Pauline Letters (2013)
• Die Johannesapokalypse (2012)
• Women and Gender in Ancient Religions (2010)
• Persecution, Persuasion and Power (2010)
• Introduction to the New Testament (2009)
• The Diet of John the Baptist (2005)
• Miracle and Mission (2000)

Chapters

• Introduction (2022)
• Passing the Audition (2022)
• Second Clement (2021)
• Do μετανοεω and μετανοια in Second Clement Signify "Repentance" or a Change in Mindset Tantamount to Conversion? (2021)
• Second Clement (2019)
• The Ecclesiology of 2 Clement 14 (2018)
• Faith and Righteousness in Second Clement (2017)
• John the Baptist as an Abstainer from Table Fellowship and Jesus as a "Glutton" (2017)
• Der Verfolger als Gottes Widersacher in der Apostelgeschichte (2016)
• En svensk översättning av Eusebios ad Marinum I.1–II.1 (2015)
• If Second Clement Really Were a "Sermon," How Would We Know, and Why Would We Care? (2015)
• Hapless Disciples and Exemplary Minor Characters in the Gospel of Mark (2014)
• Introduction to the Gospel of Mark (2013)
• Improvising Two Different Responses to Persecution (2013)
• The Relevance of Revelation’s Date and the Imperial Cult for John’s Appraisal of the Value of Christians’ Suffering in Revelation 1–3 (2012)
• A Tale of Two Markan Characterizations (2010)
• ‘Gospel’ as a Literary Title in Early Christianity and the Question of What Is (and Is not) a ‘Gospel’ in Canons of Scholarly Literature (2010)
• The New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (2007)
• Early Christian Ascetic Practices and Biblical Interpretation (2006)
• Art (2000)