Professor Francis Watson's Outputs (58)

Critical Reflections on the Role of the Canon in New Testament Scholarship (2024)
Journal Article
Watson, F. (2024). Critical Reflections on the Role of the Canon in New Testament Scholarship. New Testament Studies, 70(1), 111-124. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0028688523000176

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-seve... Read More about Critical Reflections on the Role of the Canon in New Testament Scholarship.

Self-Portrait of a Bible: The Ezra Image of Codex Amiatinus (2022)
Journal Article
Watson, F. B. (2022). Self-Portrait of a Bible: The Ezra Image of Codex Amiatinus. Religions, 13(6), Article 530. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13060530

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 rewrot... Read More about Self-Portrait of a Bible: The Ezra Image of Codex Amiatinus.

An Apostolic Gospel: The 'Epistula Apostolorum' in Literary Context (2020)
Book
Watson, F. (2020). An Apostolic Gospel: The 'Epistula Apostolorum' in Literary Context. Cambridge University Press

"The Canon and the Codex: On the Material Form of the Christian Bible" (2019)
Book Chapter
Watson, F. (2019). "The Canon and the Codex: On the Material Form of the Christian Bible". In C. Caruso (Ed.), The life of texts : evidence in textual production, transmission, and reception (48-61, 208-210). Bloomsbury Academic

"Q and the Logia: On the Discovery and Marginalizing of P.Oxy.1" (2018)
Book Chapter
Watson, F. (2018). "Q and the Logia: On the Discovery and Marginalizing of P.Oxy.1". In M. Mueller, & H. Omerzu (Eds.), Gospel interpretation and the Q hypothesis (97-113). T&T Clark

"Seven Theses on the Synoptic Problem, in Disagreement with Christopher Tuckett" (2018)
Book Chapter
Watson, F. (2018). "Seven Theses on the Synoptic Problem, in Disagreement with Christopher Tuckett". In M. Mueller, & H. Omerzu (Eds.), Gospel Interpretation and the Q Hypothesis (139-147). T&TClark/Bloomsbury

Connecting Gospels: Beyond the Canonical/Non-canonical Divide (2018)
Book
Watson, F., & Parkhouse, S. (Eds.). (2018). Connecting Gospels: Beyond the Canonical/Non-canonical Divide. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814801.001.0001

By the late second century, early Christian gospels had been divided into two groups by a canonical boundary that assigned normative status to four of them while consigning their competitors to the margins. Connecting Gospels: Beyond the Canonical/No... Read More about Connecting Gospels: Beyond the Canonical/Non-canonical Divide.

Roman Faith and Christian Faith (2018)
Journal Article
Watson, F. (2018). Roman Faith and Christian Faith. New Testament Studies, 64(02), 243-247. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0028688517000388

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, Prof... Read More about Roman Faith and Christian Faith.

Pauline Reception and the Problem of Docetism (2018)
Book Chapter
Watson, F. (2018). Pauline Reception and the Problem of Docetism. In J. Verheyden, R. Bieringer, J. Schröter, & I. Jäger (Eds.), Docetism in the early Church. Mohr Siebeck

"Reception as Corruption: Tertullian and Marcion in Quest of the True Gospel" (2018)
Book Chapter
Watson, F. (2018). "Reception as Corruption: Tertullian and Marcion in Quest of the True Gospel". In J. Hogenhaven, J. T. Nielsen, & H. Omerzu (Eds.), Rewriting and reception in and of the Bible (271-287). Mohr Siebeck

Connecting Gospels: Beyond the Canonical/Non-canonical Divide (2017)
Book
Watson, F., & Parkhouse, S. (Eds.). (2017). Connecting Gospels: Beyond the Canonical/Non-canonical Divide. Oxford University Press

Muted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews Chapter title: "Every Perfect Gift": James, Paul, and the Created Order (2017)
Book
Chapter title: "Every Perfect Gift": James, Paul, and the Created Order. T&T Clark/Bloomsbury

"Lindisfarne and the Gospels: the Art of Interpretation" (2017)
Book Chapter
Watson, F. (2017). "Lindisfarne and the Gospels: the Art of Interpretation". In G. Gasper, M. Crawford, & F. Watson (Eds.), Producing Christian culture : medieval exegesis and its interpretative genres (47-65). Ashgate Publishing

The Garima Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospel Books from Ethiopia (2016)
Book
McKenzie, J. S., & Watson, F. (2016). The Garima Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospel Books from Ethiopia. University of Exeter Press

"Barth, Ephesians, and the Practice of Theological Interpretation" (2016)
Book Chapter
Watson, F. (2016). "Barth, Ephesians, and the Practice of Theological Interpretation". In D. Nelson (Ed.), Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Ephesians (13-30, 154-157). Baker Academic

Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith, Second Edition (2016)
Book
Watson, F. (2016). Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith, Second Edition. (2nd.). T&TClark/Bloomsbury

The Fourfold Gospel: A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesus (2016)
Book
Watson, F. (2016). The Fourfold Gospel: A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesus. Baker Academic

"Towards a Redaction-Critical Reading of the Diatessaron Gospel" (2016)
Journal Article
Watson, F. (2016). "Towards a Redaction-Critical Reading of the Diatessaron Gospel". Early Christianity, 7(1), 95-112. https://doi.org/10.1628/186870316x14555506071254

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 verw... Read More about "Towards a Redaction-Critical Reading of the Diatessaron Gospel".

Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective (2013)
Book
Watson, F. (2013). Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective. Eerdmans

Eschatology and the Twentieth Century: On the Reception of Schweitzer in English (2011)
Book Chapter
Watson, F. (2011). Eschatology and the Twentieth Century: On the Reception of Schweitzer in English. In H. Eckstein, C. Landmesser, & H. Lichtenberger (Eds.), Eschatology-Eschatologie (331-347). Mohr Siebeck