Francis Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3751997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1111-5332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Harmony of the Gospels: Text and Image in an Ancient Ethiopic Gospel Book
This paper is focused on one of the three so-called “Garima Gospels,” and specifically on the paratextual material contained in its first quire. Like late antique gospels books in other manuscript traditions, Garima III includes a version of the Eusebian canon tables, set within elaborately decorated frames. In contrast to the care taken with the frames, the enumeration of parallel passages in the four gospels is so inaccurate as to be useless fo…
Eusebius and the Biographical Logic of the New Testament Canon
Eusebius’ much-discussed catalogue of ‘acknowledged’, ‘disputed’ and ‘spurious’ works ( Historia Ecclesiastica 3.25) is a key passage in the history of New Testament canon formation, but it is often extracted from its literary context and consequently misunderstood. This passage is in fact a summary of conclusions that Eusebius has already reached in the contributions to apostolic biography with which he supplements the Book of Acts in HE 2.1–3.2…
Critical Reflections on the Role of the Canon in New Testament Scholarship
The modern discipline of New Testament Studies has subjected the various components of the New Testament to close scrutiny, yet it persistently fails to ask critical questions about the New Testament considered as a whole. In its familiar twenty-seven book form, the New Testament may be seen as a fourth-century anthology of early Christian writings based on earlier collections or sub-collections (the fourfold gospel, the Pauline letter collection…
Environmental impacts from large-scale offshore renewable-energy deployment
The urgency to mitigate the effects of climate change necessitates an unprecedented global deployment of offshore renewable-energy technologies mainly including offshore wind, tidal stream, wave energy, and floating solar photovoltaic. To achieve the global energy demand for terawatt-hours, the infrastructure for such technologies will require a large spatial footprint. Accommodating this footprint will require rapid landscape evolution, ideally …
Self-Portrait of a Bible: The Ezra Image of Codex Amiatinus
Dating from the early 8th century and created in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria, Codex Amiatinus is the oldest intact single-volume Bible in any language. Within its extensive prefatory material is an image of Ezra, the scribe who according to legend rewrote the whole of the Old Testament, while behind him stands a large open book cupboard in which nine volumes of the scriptures are displayed. In this paper, I will argue that this image depicts a tensio…
Apostolic Gospel: The 'Epistula Apostolorum' in Literary Context
New Readings of Early Church History (on M. Vinzent, Writing the History of Early Christianity: (From Reception to Retrospection)
arkus Vinzent's lengthy and important book opens with an ambitious seventy-six-page 'Methodological Introduction' with a bibliography listing around items.The primary target of this sometimes diffuse discussion is a linear approach to 'church history' that begins with 'the early church' and proceeds through predictable stages (Middle Ages, Reformation, Enlightenment, or whatever) towards Modernity and the Present.Vinzent's 'retrospective' model a…
An Apostolic Gospel: The 'Epistula Apostolorum' in Literary Context
The so-called Epistula Apostolorum is an early gospel-like text in which the eleven apostles recount a question-and-answer session with the risen Jesus on Easter morning, intended to equip them for the worldwide mission to which they are now called. The Epistula draws selectively from the Gospels of John and Matthew, while disagreeing with its sources at a number of points and claiming definitive status for its own rendering of the apostolic gosp…
Putting “Theological Interpretation” in Its Place: Three Models and Their Limits
Advocacy for a “theological interpretation of Scripture” typically takes its starting point from the perceived inadequacies of “normal” biblical scholarship to measure up to the unique character of its subject matter (which is the Word of God, or at least the canonical Scriptures of the historic Christian community). Normal biblical scholarship is characterized as subservient to the dictates of the so-called “historical-critical method”—an awkwar…
Roman Faith and Christian Faith
These three short papers were delivered at the 72nd General Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, held in Pretoria, South Africa, on 8–11 August 2017. The ‘Quaestiones disputatae’ session was chaired by the President of the Society, Professor Michael Wolter. The first two papers engage with Teresa Morgan's book, Roman Faith and Christian Faith, and Professor Morgan responds to them in the third
John M.G. Barclay, Paul and the Gift
John M.G. Barclay, Paul and the Gift
Lindisfarne and the gospels
The Lindisfarne gospel codex is celebrated for its artwork: the intricate illuminated lettering of its gospel openings (incipits), the so-called 'carpet' pages, the evangelist portraits, the elegant arcades of its canon tables. The codex opens with two prefaces by Jerome and one by Eusebius which between them provide an introduction to Jerome's revised Latin gospels and the canon tables, a rationale for the four-gospel collection, and biographica…
Producing Christian Culture: Medieval Exegesis and Its Interpretative Genres
Towards a Redaction-Critical Reading of the Diatessaron Gospel
Ein redaktionskritischer Zugang zum Diatessaron betrachtet diesen Text als eigenständiges Evangelium und ist bestrebt, redaktionelle Vorgehensweisen bezüglich seiner Quellen aufzuzeigen, die denen vergleichbar sind, die von früheren Evangelisten verwendet werden. Trotz aller Schwierigkeiten, den ursprünglichen Text des Diatessaron zu bestimmen, kann das bestehende Material Aufschluss geben über die charakteristischen redaktionellen Motive des Kom…
The Eucharist: New Contexts
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
An Editorial Manifesto
New Directions in Pauline Theology
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Zum Programm der Zeitschrift
Agape, Eros, Gender: Towards a Pauline Sexual Ethic
Q as Hypothesis: A Study in Methodology
Arguments for the Q hypothesis have changed little since B. H. Streeter. The purpose of this article is not to advocate an alternative hypothesis but to argue that, if the Q hypothesis is to be sustained, the unlikelihood of Luke's dependence on Matthew must be demonstrated by a systematic and comprehensive reconstruction of the redactional procedures entailed in the two hypotheses. The Q hypothesis will have been verified if (and only if) it gen…
Agape, Eros, Gender: Towards a Pauline Sexual Ethic
Issues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this situation. Gender and sexuality are understood here within a Christian context characterized by the reality of agape
The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth
This authoritative book introducing Karl Barth is written by leading scholars of his work, drawn from Europe and North America. They offer challenging yet accessible accounts of the major features of Barth's theological work, especially as it has become available through the publication of his collected works, and interact with the very best of contemporary Barth scholarship. The contributors also assess Barth's significance for contemporary cons…
The Authority of the Voice: A Theological Reading of 1 Cor 11.2–16
The polarity between ‘hierarchical’ and ‘egalitarian’ perspectives on the relationship of male and female is not the best way to approach this passage (1 Cor 11.2–16), which interprets this relationship as one of interdependence . This interdependence is expressed in the shared practices of prophecy and prayer, in which the dialogue between God and the congregation is articulated. In Paul's proposed modification to these practices, female head-co…
Literary Approaches to the Gospels A Theological Assessment
Is Revelation an ‘Event‘
The Frontiers of China
The Frontiers of China
China: Ageless Land and Countless People
A Concise History of India
The recovery of India's immense history owes much to Western and particularly British researches; yet attempts to compress it often concentrate on the brief Imperial period. This up-to-date survey treats the latter as merely the penuitimate chapter in a story that begins in the 3rd millennium BC with the Indus Valley civilization. The influx of pastoral nomads - first in a long series of invasions from the north established the Vedic religion, wh…
The Frick Collection, an Illustrated Catalogue, Vol. VIII: Enamels, Rugs and Silver
The Social Function of Mark's Secrecy Theme
Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: A Sociological Approach
This book is novel in its questioning of the adequacy of interpreting Paul from the perspective of the Reformation and in its application of sociological methods to the New Testament.
Paul, judaism and the gentiles: A Sociological Approach
Is Revelation an ‘Event‘
Literary Approaches to the Gospels A Theological Assessment
The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth
This authoritative book introducing Karl Barth is written by leading scholars of his work, drawn from Europe and North America. They offer challenging yet accessible accounts of the major features of Barth's theological work, especially as it has become available through the publication of his collected works, and interact with the very best of contemporary Barth scholarship. The contributors also assess Barth's significance for contemporary cons…
The Authority of the Voice: A Theological Reading of 1 Cor 11.2–16
The polarity between ‘hierarchical’ and ‘egalitarian’ perspectives on the relationship of male and female is not the best way to approach this passage (1 Cor 11.2–16), which interprets this relationship as one of interdependence . This interdependence is expressed in the shared practices of prophecy and prayer, in which the dialogue between God and the congregation is articulated. In Paul's proposed modification to these practices, female head-co…
Agape, Eros, Gender: Towards a Pauline Sexual Ethic
Issues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this situation. Gender and sexuality are understood here within a Christian context characterized by the reality of agape
Agape, Eros, Gender: Towards a Pauline Sexual Ethic
Q as Hypothesis: A Study in Methodology
Arguments for the Q hypothesis have changed little since B. H. Streeter. The purpose of this article is not to advocate an alternative hypothesis but to argue that, if the Q hypothesis is to be sustained, the unlikelihood of Luke's dependence on Matthew must be demonstrated by a systematic and comprehensive reconstruction of the redactional procedures entailed in the two hypotheses. The Q hypothesis will have been verified if (and only if) it gen…
An Editorial Manifesto
New Directions in Pauline Theology
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Zum Programm der Zeitschrift
The Eucharist: New Contexts
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Towards a Redaction-Critical Reading of the Diatessaron Gospel
Ein redaktionskritischer Zugang zum Diatessaron betrachtet diesen Text als eigenständiges Evangelium und ist bestrebt, redaktionelle Vorgehensweisen bezüglich seiner Quellen aufzuzeigen, die denen vergleichbar sind, die von früheren Evangelisten verwendet werden. Trotz aller Schwierigkeiten, den ursprünglichen Text des Diatessaron zu bestimmen, kann das bestehende Material Aufschluss geben über die charakteristischen redaktionellen Motive des Kom…
John M.G. Barclay, Paul and the Gift
John M.G. Barclay, Paul and the Gift
Lindisfarne and the gospels
The Lindisfarne gospel codex is celebrated for its artwork: the intricate illuminated lettering of its gospel openings (incipits), the so-called 'carpet' pages, the evangelist portraits, the elegant arcades of its canon tables. The codex opens with two prefaces by Jerome and one by Eusebius which between them provide an introduction to Jerome's revised Latin gospels and the canon tables, a rationale for the four-gospel collection, and biographica…
Producing Christian Culture: Medieval Exegesis and Its Interpretative Genres
Roman Faith and Christian Faith
These three short papers were delivered at the 72nd General Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, held in Pretoria, South Africa, on 8–11 August 2017. The ‘Quaestiones disputatae’ session was chaired by the President of the Society, Professor Michael Wolter. The first two papers engage with Teresa Morgan's book, Roman Faith and Christian Faith, and Professor Morgan responds to them in the third
An Apostolic Gospel: The 'Epistula Apostolorum' in Literary Context
The so-called Epistula Apostolorum is an early gospel-like text in which the eleven apostles recount a question-and-answer session with the risen Jesus on Easter morning, intended to equip them for the worldwide mission to which they are now called. The Epistula draws selectively from the Gospels of John and Matthew, while disagreeing with its sources at a number of points and claiming definitive status for its own rendering of the apostolic gosp…
Philosophy (18 works) · Theology (15 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (14 works) · Art (10 works) · History (10 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)