Publications -- Books

Authored:

David B. Gowler, What Are They Saying About the Historical Jesus? Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2007.

David B. Gowler, What Are They Saying About the Parables? Mahwah, NJ:  Paulist Press, 2000.  Chapter 6 "Parables and Their Social Contexts"

* David B. Gowler, Host, Guest, Enemy and Friend: Portraits of the Pharisees in Luke and Acts. Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 1. New York, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Paris:  Peter Lang Publishing, 1991. xv + 405.

* Nominated by the publisher and accepted by the American Academy of Religion as a finalist for the "1991 Awards for Excellence in Religious Studies."

Current Book Project: David B. Gowler, James Through the Centuries. Blackwell Bible Commentary Series. Oxford, England: Blackwell Press, forthcoming.

Edited:

Contributing Co-editor, with L. Gregory Bloomquist and Duane F. Watson: Fabrics of Discourse: Culture, Ideology, and Religion. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2003.

Contributing Co-editor, with Vernon K. Robbins and Peder Borgen: Recruitment, Conquest and Conflict: Strategies in Judaism, Early Christianity and the Greco-Roman World. Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 6. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.

Contributing Editor: New Boundaries in Old Territory: Form and Social Rhetoric in Mark. By Vernon K. Robbins. Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 3. New York, Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Press, 1994.

Books Edited as Associate Editor of Emory Studies in Early Christianity:

Peter Lang volumes:

H. Wayne Merritt, In Word and Deed: Moral Integrity in Paul. Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 2. New York, Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Press, 1993.

Scholars Press volumes:

Jan Botha, Subject to Whose Authority? Multiple Readings of Romans 13. Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 4. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994.

Kjell Arne Morland, The Rhetoric of Curse in Galatians: Paul Confronts a Different Gospel. Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 5. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Continuum/T & T Clark International (formerly Trinity Press International) Volumes:

Mark Given, Paul’s True Rhetoric: Ambiguity, Cunning, and Deception in Greece and Rome. Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 7. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2000.

Anders Eriksson, Thomas H. Olbricht, and Walter Übelacker, eds., Rhetorical Argumentation in Biblical Texts. Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 8. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002.

James D. Hester and J. David Hester (Amador) (eds.), Rhetorics and Hermeneutics: Wilhelm Wuellner and His Influence at the Close of the Century. Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 9. New York: Continuum/T & T Clark International, 2004.

Todd C. Penner, In Praise of Christian Origins: Stephen and the Hellenists in Lukan Apologetic Historiography. Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 10. New York: Continuum/T & T Clark International, 2004.

Anders Eriksson and Thomas H. Olbricht, eds., Rhetoric, Ethic, and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Discourse. Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 11. New York: Continuum/T & T Clark International, 2005.

Lynn Huber, “Like a Bride Adorned”: Reading Metaphor in John’s Apocalypse. Emory Studies in Early Christianity, vol. 12. New York: Continuum/T & T Clark International, 2007.

David B. Gowler | Pierce Institute for Leadership and Community Engagement | Oxford College