RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS:  

(forthcoming; in page proofs but not yet printed) Forbidden Stories of the Bible:  The Provocative and the Profane (Chicago:  Publications International, Ltd.).

(forthcoming 2007)--Exegesis essays in Lectionary Homiletics (June 2007).

2006--Article on “Papyrus,” in  The Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media (Berkshire/Routledge Religion & Society Series; Routledge, 2006), 318-320.

2006--Article on “Translation,” in  The Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media (Berkshire/Routledge Religion & Society Series; Routledge, 2006), 437-440.

2005--Exegesis essays in Lectionary Homiletics (May 2005).

2003--Exegesis essays in Lectionary Homiletics (November 2003).

2003--Article on “Roman Empire,” in S. Juss, C. Cookson, and D. Davis (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom (Berkshire/Routledge Religion & Society Series; Routledge, 2003).

2003--Article on “Prisons,” in S. Juss, C. Cookson, and D. Davis (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom (Berkshire/Routledge Religion & Society Series; Routledge, 2003).

2003--Book review of Jeffrey A. Trumbower’s Rescue for the Dead:  The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology; New York, NY:  Oxford University Press, 2001), in Journal of Early Christian Studies (2003).

2003--Book note on S. A. Cummins’ Paul and the Crucified Christ in Antioch:  Maccabean Martyrdom and Galatians 1 and 2 (SNTS 114; New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2001), in Religious Studies Review (29.1, January 2003).

2002--Book note on Markus Barth and Helmut Blanke’s The Letter to Philemon:  A New Translation with Notes and Commentary (Grand Rapids, Michigan:  William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000), in Religious Studies Review (2002).

2002--Book note on Richard J. Cassidy’s Paul in Chains:  Roman Imprisonment and the Letters of St. Paul (New York, New York:  The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2001), in Religious Studies Review (2003).

2002--Article entitled ”Faith of Our Neighbors:  World Religions in Hampton Roads,” in C. Cookson (ed.), Religious/Freedom, Southern Style (Norfolk, VA:  The Center for the Study of Religious Freedom, 2002), 68-77.

2002--Article entitled ”The ‘90s--A New Era,” Virginia Wesleyan Magazine, 8-9, Winter 2002.

2001--Commentary on "Paul's Letter to Philemon", in John Barton and John Muddiman (eds.), The Oxford Bible Commentary (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2001).

2001--Book review of Peter W. Macky’s St. Paul’s Cosmic War Myth:  A Military Version of the Gospel (New York:  Peter Lang, 1998), in Religious Studies Review (Fall, 2001).

2001--Book review of Joseph A. Fitzmyer’s The Letter to Philemon (The Anchor Bible Series; New York:  Doubleday, 2000), in Religious Studies Review (Fall, 2001).

2000--Article entitled "Roman Law and Legal Systems", in Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter (eds.), Dictionary of New Testament Background (InterVarsity Press, 2000).

1996--Monograph entitled Chained in Christ:  The Experience and Rhetoric of Paul's Imprisonments (Sheffield:  Sheffield Academic Press, 1996).

1996--Article entitled "'You Will Be Restored Again to Your Office:'  Autobiographical Insights in The Shepherd of Hermas," in Alf Özen (ed.), Historische Wahrheit und theologische Wissenschaft (Frankfurt am Main:  Peter Lang, 1996), 71-86.

1992--Book Note on J. S. Jeffer's Conflict at Rome, Theology Today  49 (July 1992), 283.

1991--Edition and translation of "Encomium on the Four Bodiless Living Creatures Attributed to John Chrysostom," in Leo Depuydt (ed.), Homiletica From the Pierpont Morgan Library  (CSCO, Volumes 524 and 525; Scriptores Coptici, 43 and 44; Louvain:  Peeters, 1991), 43.27-46; 44.27-47.

              (Note:  This project was an edition and translation of an unpublished eighth century parchment                                           from the rare manuscript collection at the Pierpont Morgan Library in NYC.)

1986--Article entitled "Epistula ad Diognetum:  A School Exercise in the Use of Greek Protreptic," in Church Divinity (Notre Dame, 1986), 97-109.

1985--Assisted in the research of Professor Siegfried Mittman, Tübingen University (worked on various articles and research projects relating to Natufian and Early Bronze archaeology sites in northern Jordan).