Andrew J Byers
Biographic Data
| ID | 9095217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew J Byers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Byers |
| SIGNATURE | BYERS A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0092-1294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Contrasting Models of Deification
Ancient ideas about human transformation and divinization have resurfaced in our cultural moment. Artificial intelligence and biotechnology are raising afresh questions about what it means to be human and divine. The Oxford Handbook of Deification has arrived on the scene as its subject matter has splashed out of theological discourse into the popular imagination. What Christian theology would recognize as deification is now a talking point on po…
Morality, Empire, and the Global War on Prostitution
The Genre of Mark’s Gospel Is ‘Gospel’
Classifying Gospels as ancient Graeco-Roman biographies addresses an array of scholarly questions about how these texts relate to their wider literary culture. That classification also requires considerable qualification since Gospels—particularly the Gospel of Mark—at times diverge from certain generic conventions. This study rearticulates the out-of-fashion claim that ‘Mark’ created a new literary genre, even if penned in a biographical structu…
“Put your sword back into its sheath”
The Gospel of John challenges the use of violence in both the exercise of power and in resistance to power. This article identifies how power is used in John, discusses who uses it, and examines how power is complicated or inhibited within the narrative. God and the Logos are introduced in the Prologue as the Gospel’s most powerful figures, yet their power is resisted. The Jewish leaders (often co-identified with “the Jews”) hold sociocultural po…
Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature
Before the early Christian evangelists were Gospel writers, they were Gospel readers. Their composition process was more complex than simply compiling existing traditions about Jesus, then ordering them into a narrative frame. Rather, these writers were engaged in a creative and dynamic act of theological reception. 'Gospel reading' refers to this innovative and often artistic use of source materials -- from Israel's Scriptures to pre-existing na…
David F. Ford. The Gospel of John
Interdisciplinarity is increasingly celebrated in theology, biblical studies, and in the wider humanities. Enthusiasm brims when Johannine scholarship, for instance, avails itself of trauma theory, reader-response criticism, postcolonial studies, or social-scientific methodologies.But what happens when the Gospel of John meets confessional theology within the academic guild? And what if such interdisciplinarity takes up space in that genre of wri…
The One Body of the Shema in 1 Corinthians
When Paul employs the motif of oneness in 1 Corinthians 12 and joins it to the metaphor of Christ's body, he is drawing not only on Greco-Roman political rhetoric, as argued by the majority of interpreters, but also, and at times more directly, from theological wells found within his Jewish theological heritage: the use of the phrase ‘one body’ in 1 Corinthians is an ecclesial application of the Shema. Paul's oneness language expresses not simply…
Paying with Their Bodies
Fighting for a Living
"Fighting for a Living: A Comparative History of Military Labour, 1500–2000, edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher." Canadian Journal of History, 50(2), pp. 405–406
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Fighting for a Living
"Fighting for a Living: A Comparative History of Military Labour, 1500–2000, edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher." Canadian Journal of History, 50(2), pp. 405–406
The One Body of the Shema in 1 Corinthians
When Paul employs the motif of oneness in 1 Corinthians 12 and joins it to the metaphor of Christ's body, he is drawing not only on Greco-Roman political rhetoric, as argued by the majority of interpreters, but also, and at times more directly, from theological wells found within his Jewish theological heritage: the use of the phrase ‘one body’ in 1 Corinthians is an ecclesial application of the Shema. Paul's oneness language expresses not simply…
Paying with Their Bodies
Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature
Before the early Christian evangelists were Gospel writers, they were Gospel readers. Their composition process was more complex than simply compiling existing traditions about Jesus, then ordering them into a narrative frame. Rather, these writers were engaged in a creative and dynamic act of theological reception. 'Gospel reading' refers to this innovative and often artistic use of source materials -- from Israel's Scriptures to pre-existing na…
David F. Ford. The Gospel of John
Interdisciplinarity is increasingly celebrated in theology, biblical studies, and in the wider humanities. Enthusiasm brims when Johannine scholarship, for instance, avails itself of trauma theory, reader-response criticism, postcolonial studies, or social-scientific methodologies.But what happens when the Gospel of John meets confessional theology within the academic guild? And what if such interdisciplinarity takes up space in that genre of wri…
The Genre of Mark’s Gospel Is ‘Gospel’
Classifying Gospels as ancient Graeco-Roman biographies addresses an array of scholarly questions about how these texts relate to their wider literary culture. That classification also requires considerable qualification since Gospels—particularly the Gospel of Mark—at times diverge from certain generic conventions. This study rearticulates the out-of-fashion claim that ‘Mark’ created a new literary genre, even if penned in a biographical structu…
“Put your sword back into its sheath”
The Gospel of John challenges the use of violence in both the exercise of power and in resistance to power. This article identifies how power is used in John, discusses who uses it, and examines how power is complicated or inhibited within the narrative. God and the Logos are introduced in the Prologue as the Gospel’s most powerful figures, yet their power is resisted. The Jewish leaders (often co-identified with “the Jews”) hold sociocultural po…
Morality, Empire, and the Global War on Prostitution
Contrasting Models of Deification
Ancient ideas about human transformation and divinization have resurfaced in our cultural moment. Artificial intelligence and biotechnology are raising afresh questions about what it means to be human and divine. The Oxford Handbook of Deification has arrived on the scene as its subject matter has splashed out of theological discourse into the popular imagination. What Christian theology would recognize as deification is now a talking point on po…
Philosophy (6 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gospel (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works)