Joshua W Jipp
Biographic Data
| ID | 8868213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua W Jipp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua W |
| FAMILY NAME | Jipp |
| SIGNATURE | JIPP J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity Evangelical Divinity School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Marcus A. Mininger. Impossible to Be Restored? Temptation and Warning in the Epistle of Hebrews
In this slim volume, Mininger provides a robust and, in many ways, new way of understanding Heb 6:1–6 and the broader theme of apostasy in Hebrews. His method is almost entirely strictly exegetical, refraining from imposing theological categories on Hebrews or overspeculation on the historical situation that gave rise to the audience’s temptation to apostatize. His argument, however, is deeply important for theology and has significant contempora…
Frances M. Young. Scripture, The Genesis of Doctrine
As a doctoral student, my entryway into patristic exegesis and reading practices was greatly facilitated by Frances Young’s Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture (Baker, 2002). I have repeatedly returned to this book and recommended it to others as an eye-opening account of how to make sense of Scripture in the early church. So, it was with a good deal of excitement that I read Young’s two-volume account of the relationship bet…
Annalisa Phillips Wilson. Paul and the Jewish Law
Any attempt to make sense of Paul either in his first-century context or for theological and ethical ends in the contemporary world is bound to struggle with explaining Paul’s many seemingly contradictory statements. Nowhere is this challenge greater than in Paul’s view of the law. It’s not unusual, for example, to find scholars who make lists of Paul’s statements about Torah observance with the headings “good statements about the Law” and “negat…
Jason A. Staples. Paul and the Resurrection of Israel
What did Paul find wrong with Judaism—legalism? ethnocentrism? nothing? Why did Paul reject the works of the law as a path to life? Are believing gentiles incorporated fully into Israel such that they become Israelites, or are they still pagans, maybe ex-pagan pagans? Answering these questions will likely land Pauline exegetes in a specific camp—the New Perspective on Paul, the Old Perspective on Paul, the Apocalyptic Paul, or Paul within Judaism…
Greg Carey. Death, The End of History, and Beyond
One of the central questions of human existence is what happens after death? More broadly, will God bring history and our current world to a good climax? Will evil be eradicated, the wicked punished, and the innocent vindicated? The Bible tackles these eschatological questions from a variety of different angles, but it does not always speak with a clear or unified voice. Greg Carey carefully and patiently works through the major biblical texts th…
Darian R. Lockett. The Catholic Epistles
This collection of carefully curated essays provides an excellent and in-depth entry point for anyone looking to gain an understanding of the state of the question of current research on what is probably the most ignored section of the New Testament—the seven letters canonically arranged as “The Catholic Epistles” (James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, 3 John, and Jude).A brief word on the format of the book. Lockett divides the essays into four unequal pa…
Travis B. Williams and David G. Horrell. 1 Peter
Given the advances in textual, archaeological, historical, and linguistic research, as well as the proliferation of new methods and exegetical approaches, Travis Williams and David Horrell have written a new and updated ICC commentary on 1 Peter (the previous commentary was published by Charles Biggs in 1901). The authors indicate the following as important features of their approach: detailed engaged with textual variants through the use the Edi…
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. Mary Magdalene
The past two decades at least have witnessed a remarkable rise in scholarly interest in the reception history of the biblical writings. Many have explored patristic, medieval, and Reformation homilies and treatises, for example, to gain deeper insight into the relationship between text and history. It is certainly the case that most biblical scholars are, unsurprisingly, most comfortable with and trained in reading and interpreting texts, but it …
Jeremiah Coogan. Eusebius the Evangelist
Abba Gärima III, a late Ethiopic manuscript (ca. 330–540 CE), surprisingly includes five portraits of Gospel Evangelists—Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Eusebius of Caesarea. Whereas the four Gospel authors hold crosses, Eusebius holds a codex. This is the key for his inclusion in the manuscript as the fifth Evangelist, as he is remembered as the pioneer of an innovative technology for making cross-references among the four Gospel writings. Eusebi…
Ryan S. Schellenberg. Abject Joy
The apostle Paul provides some of the richest and most extensive literary resources for the historian’s understanding of imprisonment in the ancient Mediterranean world. As such, it is important to note that Schellenberg’s goal is not to valorize or “center” Paul, not to treat him as a moral exemplar (as does the Acts of the Apostles) but, rather, by “attending to Paul’s imprisonments . . . to observe just how marginal a figure this Paul was—to d…
Kent L. Yinger. God and Human Wholeness
Any reader of an English Bible will run across theological claims and exhortations that seem to call for an impossible demand for ethical perfection. Who has not wrestled with how to understand, let alone teach, Jesus’s command: “You shall be perfect even as your Heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt 5:48)? In fact, the language of “perfect” and “perfection” occurs repeatedly throughout the Christian Scriptures. But how are we to understand the Bible…
Why Do Christians Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus
In conversation with Dale Allison’s The Resurrection of Jesus, this short article argues that, while critical historiography cannot establish with complete certainty the veracity of Jesus’s resurrection, this is not a problem for contemporary believers who confess that God has raised Jesus from the dead. The NT writings indicate that the church’s experience of the risen Christ and the Spirit of Christ validates its belief in the historical realit…
Edwin C. van Driel. Rethinking Paul
Edwin C. van Driel is a courageous human, bold to tread where few theologians dare—the wild morass of contemporary Pauline theology and exegesis. Fully conversant with both Paul’s letters and contemporary Pauline scholarship, one of van Driel’s primary goals is to provide a theological argument that demonstrates how the work of recent Pauline scholarship “potentially enriches, rather than threatens, the Protestant community” (p. 2).In what way mi…
Loren R. Spielman. Jews and Entertainment in the Ancient World
Is it true that most Jews of the Second Temple period either avoided or were critical of Roman entertainment, including games, theater, and circuses? Answering this question can enable one to understand better how Jews navigated their relationship to Roman civic and political life in an urban context. Spielman’s study aims at examining the “variety of Jewish attitudes towards Roman spectacle and understanding the different strategies for accommod…
Jeannine K. Brown. Philippians
Brown’s present volume on Philippians is one of the first of the new commentaries in the flagship Tyndale Commentary series—the first volumes published from 1956 to 1974 and the next set between 1983 and 2003 (p. vii). The goal of the series is to provide a simultaneously readable, accessible, and robust exegetical engagement of the text within its historical context—and with an eye toward contemporary theological relevance. Brown’s commentary ac…
Eric C. Moore. Claiming Places
In this revised dissertation completed at Emory University under the supervision of Carl R. Holladay, Eric Moore notes that numerous scholars label Acts a story of origins or foundations that emphasizes community replication but that very few seek to situate this aspect of the story within its ancient Mediterranean context. Thus, Moore argues, simply and convincingly, that Acts is illuminated when it is read “in light of a specific topos in Medit…
Luke/Acts and the End of History
For the past three-quarters of a century, Lukan scholarship has been beholden to questionable assumptions about the relationship between Luke’s historical project and earliest Christian eschatology. Luke is supposedly a theologian of glory, a witness to early Catholicism, and has replaced an imminent eschatological hope with a periodized salvation history. His creative contribution to early Christianity (albeit one that is usually evaluated negat…
Messiah and Scripture
Of the writing on Paul and his “in Christ” phrase, there is no end in sight. This is for good reason, as the phrase, and its oft attendant notion of participation/union with Christ, is clearly an innovative and significant feature of Paul’s theological discourse. To this discussion, Hewitt makes a significant contribution. His thesis is stated clearly: “Paul’s use of ‘in Christ’ language is part of a broader phenomenon of ancient Jewish messiah d…
The Ethics of the Enactment and Reception of Cruciform Love
The background for the NT’s ethical instructions, especially the vice and virtue lists, are often sought in Hellenistic philosophical texts. John Frederick scrutinizes this tendency by examining Col 3 and argues instead that “Aristotelian, Stoic, and Cynic categories do not form the basis upon which the author of Colossians was constructing his ethical vision for the church” (p. 1). Rather, “Colossians is working from an inherited Jewish Two Way …
Mark, a Pauline Theologian
The traditional view that Mark’s Gospel was written by John Mark, who transmitted Peter’s memories of Jesus of Nazareth, continues to find scholarly proponents. Some, however, see the traditional view as resting on slender evidence and are instead impressed by its similarities with distinctive aspects of the theology of the Apostle Paul. Díaz is one among many recent voices who argues that Mark wants to “interpret Jesus through a Pauline lens” (p…
The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity
Scholars of early Christianity often note that this movement was remarkably bookish. Those who could read and write liked to do so and the amount of different writings and books presented challenges to audiences wondering about their value. Could they be read with profit? Who produced these books? We know that in the 4th century AD we start to find biblical canon lists that set forth the books of the Christian canon and much more valuable informa…
The Son's Entrance into the Heavenly World
Hebrews 1.5-14 has proved difficult to integrate within the author's larger literary project. More recent scholarship has emphasized rightly that the catena centers upon the Son of God's royal enthronement, but the question as to why the author should begin his argument this way has yet to be answered. In this essay I argue that the event which the catena describes, namely the Son's enthronement to the heavenly world, is critical for the entire l…
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The Son's Entrance into the Heavenly World
Hebrews 1.5-14 has proved difficult to integrate within the author's larger literary project. More recent scholarship has emphasized rightly that the catena centers upon the Son of God's royal enthronement, but the question as to why the author should begin his argument this way has yet to be answered. In this essay I argue that the event which the catena describes, namely the Son's enthronement to the heavenly world, is critical for the entire l…
The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity
Scholars of early Christianity often note that this movement was remarkably bookish. Those who could read and write liked to do so and the amount of different writings and books presented challenges to audiences wondering about their value. Could they be read with profit? Who produced these books? We know that in the 4th century AD we start to find biblical canon lists that set forth the books of the Christian canon and much more valuable informa…
Messiah and Scripture
Of the writing on Paul and his “in Christ” phrase, there is no end in sight. This is for good reason, as the phrase, and its oft attendant notion of participation/union with Christ, is clearly an innovative and significant feature of Paul’s theological discourse. To this discussion, Hewitt makes a significant contribution. His thesis is stated clearly: “Paul’s use of ‘in Christ’ language is part of a broader phenomenon of ancient Jewish messiah d…
The Ethics of the Enactment and Reception of Cruciform Love
The background for the NT’s ethical instructions, especially the vice and virtue lists, are often sought in Hellenistic philosophical texts. John Frederick scrutinizes this tendency by examining Col 3 and argues instead that “Aristotelian, Stoic, and Cynic categories do not form the basis upon which the author of Colossians was constructing his ethical vision for the church” (p. 1). Rather, “Colossians is working from an inherited Jewish Two Way …
Mark, a Pauline Theologian
The traditional view that Mark’s Gospel was written by John Mark, who transmitted Peter’s memories of Jesus of Nazareth, continues to find scholarly proponents. Some, however, see the traditional view as resting on slender evidence and are instead impressed by its similarities with distinctive aspects of the theology of the Apostle Paul. Díaz is one among many recent voices who argues that Mark wants to “interpret Jesus through a Pauline lens” (p…
Why Do Christians Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus
In conversation with Dale Allison’s The Resurrection of Jesus, this short article argues that, while critical historiography cannot establish with complete certainty the veracity of Jesus’s resurrection, this is not a problem for contemporary believers who confess that God has raised Jesus from the dead. The NT writings indicate that the church’s experience of the risen Christ and the Spirit of Christ validates its belief in the historical realit…
Edwin C. van Driel. Rethinking Paul
Edwin C. van Driel is a courageous human, bold to tread where few theologians dare—the wild morass of contemporary Pauline theology and exegesis. Fully conversant with both Paul’s letters and contemporary Pauline scholarship, one of van Driel’s primary goals is to provide a theological argument that demonstrates how the work of recent Pauline scholarship “potentially enriches, rather than threatens, the Protestant community” (p. 2).In what way mi…
Loren R. Spielman. Jews and Entertainment in the Ancient World
Is it true that most Jews of the Second Temple period either avoided or were critical of Roman entertainment, including games, theater, and circuses? Answering this question can enable one to understand better how Jews navigated their relationship to Roman civic and political life in an urban context. Spielman’s study aims at examining the “variety of Jewish attitudes towards Roman spectacle and understanding the different strategies for accommod…
Jeannine K. Brown. Philippians
Brown’s present volume on Philippians is one of the first of the new commentaries in the flagship Tyndale Commentary series—the first volumes published from 1956 to 1974 and the next set between 1983 and 2003 (p. vii). The goal of the series is to provide a simultaneously readable, accessible, and robust exegetical engagement of the text within its historical context—and with an eye toward contemporary theological relevance. Brown’s commentary ac…
Eric C. Moore. Claiming Places
In this revised dissertation completed at Emory University under the supervision of Carl R. Holladay, Eric Moore notes that numerous scholars label Acts a story of origins or foundations that emphasizes community replication but that very few seek to situate this aspect of the story within its ancient Mediterranean context. Thus, Moore argues, simply and convincingly, that Acts is illuminated when it is read “in light of a specific topos in Medit…
Luke/Acts and the End of History
For the past three-quarters of a century, Lukan scholarship has been beholden to questionable assumptions about the relationship between Luke’s historical project and earliest Christian eschatology. Luke is supposedly a theologian of glory, a witness to early Catholicism, and has replaced an imminent eschatological hope with a periodized salvation history. His creative contribution to early Christianity (albeit one that is usually evaluated negat…
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. Mary Magdalene
The past two decades at least have witnessed a remarkable rise in scholarly interest in the reception history of the biblical writings. Many have explored patristic, medieval, and Reformation homilies and treatises, for example, to gain deeper insight into the relationship between text and history. It is certainly the case that most biblical scholars are, unsurprisingly, most comfortable with and trained in reading and interpreting texts, but it …
Jeremiah Coogan. Eusebius the Evangelist
Abba Gärima III, a late Ethiopic manuscript (ca. 330–540 CE), surprisingly includes five portraits of Gospel Evangelists—Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Eusebius of Caesarea. Whereas the four Gospel authors hold crosses, Eusebius holds a codex. This is the key for his inclusion in the manuscript as the fifth Evangelist, as he is remembered as the pioneer of an innovative technology for making cross-references among the four Gospel writings. Eusebi…
Ryan S. Schellenberg. Abject Joy
The apostle Paul provides some of the richest and most extensive literary resources for the historian’s understanding of imprisonment in the ancient Mediterranean world. As such, it is important to note that Schellenberg’s goal is not to valorize or “center” Paul, not to treat him as a moral exemplar (as does the Acts of the Apostles) but, rather, by “attending to Paul’s imprisonments . . . to observe just how marginal a figure this Paul was—to d…
Kent L. Yinger. God and Human Wholeness
Any reader of an English Bible will run across theological claims and exhortations that seem to call for an impossible demand for ethical perfection. Who has not wrestled with how to understand, let alone teach, Jesus’s command: “You shall be perfect even as your Heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt 5:48)? In fact, the language of “perfect” and “perfection” occurs repeatedly throughout the Christian Scriptures. But how are we to understand the Bible…
Darian R. Lockett. The Catholic Epistles
This collection of carefully curated essays provides an excellent and in-depth entry point for anyone looking to gain an understanding of the state of the question of current research on what is probably the most ignored section of the New Testament—the seven letters canonically arranged as “The Catholic Epistles” (James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, 3 John, and Jude).A brief word on the format of the book. Lockett divides the essays into four unequal pa…
Travis B. Williams and David G. Horrell. 1 Peter
Given the advances in textual, archaeological, historical, and linguistic research, as well as the proliferation of new methods and exegetical approaches, Travis Williams and David Horrell have written a new and updated ICC commentary on 1 Peter (the previous commentary was published by Charles Biggs in 1901). The authors indicate the following as important features of their approach: detailed engaged with textual variants through the use the Edi…
Jason A. Staples. Paul and the Resurrection of Israel
What did Paul find wrong with Judaism—legalism? ethnocentrism? nothing? Why did Paul reject the works of the law as a path to life? Are believing gentiles incorporated fully into Israel such that they become Israelites, or are they still pagans, maybe ex-pagan pagans? Answering these questions will likely land Pauline exegetes in a specific camp—the New Perspective on Paul, the Old Perspective on Paul, the Apocalyptic Paul, or Paul within Judaism…
Greg Carey. Death, The End of History, and Beyond
One of the central questions of human existence is what happens after death? More broadly, will God bring history and our current world to a good climax? Will evil be eradicated, the wicked punished, and the innocent vindicated? The Bible tackles these eschatological questions from a variety of different angles, but it does not always speak with a clear or unified voice. Greg Carey carefully and patiently works through the major biblical texts th…
Marcus A. Mininger. Impossible to Be Restored? Temptation and Warning in the Epistle of Hebrews
In this slim volume, Mininger provides a robust and, in many ways, new way of understanding Heb 6:1–6 and the broader theme of apostasy in Hebrews. His method is almost entirely strictly exegetical, refraining from imposing theological categories on Hebrews or overspeculation on the historical situation that gave rise to the audience’s temptation to apostatize. His argument, however, is deeply important for theology and has significant contempora…
Frances M. Young. Scripture, The Genesis of Doctrine
As a doctoral student, my entryway into patristic exegesis and reading practices was greatly facilitated by Frances Young’s Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture (Baker, 2002). I have repeatedly returned to this book and recommended it to others as an eye-opening account of how to make sense of Scripture in the early church. So, it was with a good deal of excitement that I read Young’s two-volume account of the relationship bet…
Annalisa Phillips Wilson. Paul and the Jewish Law
Any attempt to make sense of Paul either in his first-century context or for theological and ethical ends in the contemporary world is bound to struggle with explaining Paul’s many seemingly contradictory statements. Nowhere is this challenge greater than in Paul’s view of the law. It’s not unusual, for example, to find scholars who make lists of Paul’s statements about Torah observance with the headings “good statements about the Law” and “negat…
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