Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation
(2024)
Book
Heath, J. (2024). Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation. Oxford University Press
All Outputs (20)
‘I remembered the saying’ (Tobit 2:6) Recognising Emotions in Scripture with Tobit and Eve (2023)
Journal Article
Heath, J. (2023). ‘I remembered the saying’ (Tobit 2:6) Recognising Emotions in Scripture with Tobit and Eve. Journal of Theological Interpretation, 17(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.5325/jtheointe.17.1.0001This experimental paper is methodologically Christian, in the sense that it is structured as a Christian mimesis of how a scriptural saint cited scripture. However, the choice of subject matter commits it to engaging with the post-Enlightenment secul... Read More about ‘I remembered the saying’ (Tobit 2:6) Recognising Emotions in Scripture with Tobit and Eve.
Mary's Image as Theology (2022)
Book Chapter
Heath, J. (2022). Mary's Image as Theology. In M. McInroy, C. Strine, & A. Torrance (Eds.), Image as Theology. Brepols Publishers
Imitatio Christi and Violence to the Self Winnicott’s True/False Self and Possible Health Risks of (Mis)reading Paul (2022)
Journal Article
Heath, J. (2023). Imitatio Christi and Violence to the Self Winnicott’s True/False Self and Possible Health Risks of (Mis)reading Paul. Journal of Disability and Religion, 27(2), 247-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2022.2039838
Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice: Miscellany and the Transformation of Greco-Roman Writing (2020)
Book
Heath, J. (2020). Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice: Miscellany and the Transformation of Greco-Roman Writing. Cambridge University PressClement of Alexandria's Stromateis were celebrated in antiquity but modern readers have often skirted them as a messy jumble of notes. When scholarship on Greco-Roman miscellanies took off in the 1990s, Clement was left out as 'different' because he... Read More about Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice: Miscellany and the Transformation of Greco-Roman Writing.
"Textual Communities": Brian Stock's Concept and Recent Scholarship on Antiquity (2018)
Book Chapter
Heath, J. (2018). "Textual Communities": Brian Stock's Concept and Recent Scholarship on Antiquity. In F. Wilk (Ed.), Scriptural Interpretation at the Interface between Education and Religion (5-35). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004385696_003
God the Father and Other Parents in the New Testament (2014)
Book Chapter
Heath, J. (2014). God the Father and Other Parents in the New Testament. In F. Albrecht, & R. Feldmeier (Eds.), The Divine Father: Religious and Philosophical Concepts of Divine Parenthood in Antiquity (325-344). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004264779_017This chapter addresses the issue of 'God and other parents in the New Testament' from the other end, as it were, by asking first which other parents are important to the authors of the New Testament and why, and then investigating to what extent God... Read More about God the Father and Other Parents in the New Testament.
Moses' End and the Succession: Deuteronomy 31 and 2 Corinthians 3 (2013)
Journal Article
Heath, J. (2014). Moses' End and the Succession: Deuteronomy 31 and 2 Corinthians 3. New Testament Studies, 60(01), 37-60. https://doi.org/10.1017/s002868851300026xThis essay argues that Deut 29–32, especially Deut 31, plays a significant role in 2 Cor 3, especially vv. 7–18: Paul's elusive allegorical narrative draws on Deuteronomic motifs of ‘closure’ (the end of Moses, of the law and of the Israelites); the... Read More about Moses' End and the Succession: Deuteronomy 31 and 2 Corinthians 3.
Greek and Jewish Visual Piety: Ptolemy's Gifts in the Letter of Aristeas (2013)
Book Chapter
Heath, J. (2013). Greek and Jewish Visual Piety: Ptolemy's Gifts in the Letter of Aristeas. In S. Pearce (Ed.), The image and its prohibition in Jewish antiquity (38-48). Journal of Jewish Studies
Paul's Visual Piety: The Metamorphosis of the Beholder. (2013)
Book
Heath, J. (2013). Paul's Visual Piety: The Metamorphosis of the Beholder. (1). Oxford University Press
The Righteous Gentile Interjects (James 2:18-19 and Romans 2:14-15) (2013)
Journal Article
Heath, J. (2013). The Righteous Gentile Interjects (James 2:18-19 and Romans 2:14-15). Novum Testamentum: An International Quarterly for New Testament and Related Studies, 55(3), 272-295. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341425Jas 2:18-19 is at the heart of James’ famous (or, to some, infamous) argument about faith and works, but it defies definitive interpretation due to combined difficulties in punctuation and in tracing the literary continuity in James’ argument. This e... Read More about The Righteous Gentile Interjects (James 2:18-19 and Romans 2:14-15).
'You Say that I Am a King' (John 18.37) (2012)
Journal Article
Heath, J. (2012). 'You Say that I Am a King' (John 18.37). Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 34(3), 232-253. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064x11435039Nestle-Aland punctuate Jn 18.37 σὺ λέγεις ὅτι βασιλεύς εἰμι. The present article argues for voicing the text rather with the pause one word later: σὺ λέγεις ὅτι βασιλεύς εἰμι ἐγώ. This voicing resonates with the Johannine ἐγώ εἰμι sayings, which, tog... Read More about 'You Say that I Am a King' (John 18.37).
Nomina Sacra and Sacra Memoria Before the Monastic Age (2010)
Journal Article
Heath, J. (2010). Nomina Sacra and Sacra Memoria Before the Monastic Age. The Journal of Theological Studies, 61(2), 516-549. https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flq077
‘Some were saying, “He is good”’ (John 7.12b): ‘Good’ Christology in John's Gospel? (2010)
Journal Article
Heath, J. (2010). ‘Some were saying, “He is good”’ (John 7.12b): ‘Good’ Christology in John's Gospel?. New Testament Studies, 56(4), 513-535. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0028688510000111Far from being the banality suggested by commentators, John's use of the vocabulary of ‘goodness’ for Jesus (ἀγαθός and καλός) is christologically significant. It points to Jesus' unity with God. The Johannine treatment of Jesus' ‘goodness’ and inter... Read More about ‘Some were saying, “He is good”’ (John 7.12b): ‘Good’ Christology in John's Gospel?.
Absent Presences of Paul and Christ: Enargeia in 1 Thessalonians 1—3 (2009)
Journal Article
Heath, J. M. (2009). Absent Presences of Paul and Christ: Enargeia in 1 Thessalonians 1—3. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 32(1), 3-38. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064x09339643
Corinth, a Crucible for Byzantine Iconcolastic Debates? Viewing Paul as Icon of Christ in 2 Cor 4:7-12 (2009)
Book Chapter
Heath, J. (2009). Corinth, a Crucible for Byzantine Iconcolastic Debates? Viewing Paul as Icon of Christ in 2 Cor 4:7-12. In R. Hirsch-Luipold, H. Görgemanns, M. von Albrecht, & T. Thum (Eds.), Religiöse Philosophie und philosophische Religion der frühen Kaiserzeit Literaturgeschichtliche Perspektiven. Ratio Religionis Studien I (271-284). Mohr Siebeck
Homer or Moses? A Hellenistic Perspective on Moses' Throne Vision in Ezekiel Tragicus (2007)
Journal Article
Heath, J. (2007). Homer or Moses? A Hellenistic Perspective on Moses' Throne Vision in Ezekiel Tragicus. Journal of Jewish Studies, 58(1), 1-18
Ezekiel Tragicus and Hellenistic Visuality: The Phoenix at Elim (2005)
Journal Article
Heath, J. (2005). Ezekiel Tragicus and Hellenistic Visuality: The Phoenix at Elim. The Journal of Theological Studies, 57(1), 23-41. https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/fli274
The Lord's Prayer
Digital Artefact
Heath, J. The Lord's Prayer. [[Media unknown]]
"That we might serve him" (Luke 1,74). Scriptural Liturgy and the Little Word "God"
Book Chapter
Heath, J. "That we might serve him" (Luke 1,74). Scriptural Liturgy and the Little Word "God". In J. Dochhorn, R. Hirsch-Luipold, & I. Tanaseanu-Doebler (Eds.), Ueber Gott. Festschrift fuer Reinhard Feldmeier zum 70. Geburtstag / On God. Festschrift in Honour of Reinhard Feldmeier's 70th Birthday (335-350). Mohr Siebeck