Books
- Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts: The Social and Political Motivations of Lucan Theology (1987)
- The First Christians in Their Social Worlds: Social-Scientific Approaches to New Testament Interpretation (1994)
- Modelling Early Christianity: Social-Scientific Studies of the New Testament in its Context (1995) editor
- Galatians (1998)
- Christianity for the Twenty First Century (1998) editor
- The Early Christian World, two volumes (2000) editor
- Conflict and Identity in Romans: The Social Setting of Paul’s Letter (2003) (Spanish translation in 2004 and Italian translation in 2008)
- Visuality and Biblical Text: Interpreting Velázquez’ Christ with Martha and Mary as a Test Case (2004) with Jane Boyd
- New Testament Theology: Communion and Community (2005)
- Ancient Israel: The Old Testament in Its Social Context (2005) editor
- Lazarus, Martha and Mary: A Social-Scientific and Theological Reading of John (2006) with Ronald A. Piper
- Sex, Wives, and Warriors: Reading Biblical Narrative with Its Ancient Audience (2011)
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“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.”
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