Philip Esler

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Philip Esler is affiliated with the following schools: University of St Andrews, University of Sydney, University of Gloucestershire, University of Divinity

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Biblical Studies

#157

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#197

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Theology

#1276

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According to Wikipedia, Philip Francis Esler is the Portland Chair in New Testament Studies at the University of Gloucestershire. He is an Australian-born higher education administrator and academic who became the inaugural chief executive of the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2005, remaining in that role until 2009. From 1995 to 2010 he was professor of Biblical criticism at St Andrews University. From 1998 to 2001 he was vice-principal for research and provost of St Leonard’s College at St Andrews. During the years 1999 to 2003 he served as a member of the board of Scottish Enterprise Fife. From October 2010 to March 2013 he was principal at St Mary’s University College Twickenham. He had an earlier career as a lawyer, working in Sydney during 1978-81 and 1984-92 as an articled clerk, then solicitor and barrister.

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Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts: The Social and Political Motivations of Lucan Theology. (1987) (191)
Conflict and Identity in Romans: The Social Setting of Paul's Letter (2003) (129)
Talking to "Terrorists": Towards an Independent Analytical Framework for the Study of Violent Substate Activism (2001) (108)
The First Christians in Their Social Worlds: Social-scientific approaches to New Testament Interpretation (1995) (103)
Modelling early Christianity : social-scientific studies of the New Testament in its context (1995) (92)
Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts (1987) (41)
Ludic History in the Book of Judith: The Reinvention of Israelite Identity? (2002) (38)
The Early Christian World (2000) (35)
Community and Gospel in Early Christianity: A Response to Richard Bauckham's Gospels for all Christians (1998) (33)
Jesus the Teacher. A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of Mark (1984) (1987) (33)
Ancient Israel: The Old Testament In Its Social Context (2005) (25)
The Social Function of 4 Ezra (1994) (24)
Making and Breaking an Agreement Mediterranean Style: a New Reading of Galatians 2:1-14 (1995) (21)
CONFLICT: THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN JESUS AND THE REDUCTION OF INTERGROUP IN THE LIGHT OF SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY (2000) (20)
Models in New Testament Interpretation: a Reply To David Horrell (2000) (19)
Community and gospel in Luke–Acts: The community (1987) (16)
FAMILY IMAGERY AND CHRISTIAN IDENTITY IN GAL 5:13 TO 6:10 (2002) (14)
Babatha's Orchard: The Yadin Papyri and an Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold (2017) (14)
Paul's Contestation of Israel's (Ethnic) Memory of Abraham in Galatians 3 (2006) (14)
Ancient Oleiculture and Ethnic Differentiation: The Meaning of the Olive-Tree Image in Romans 11 (2003) (13)
Christianity for the twenty-first century (1998) (13)
Ezra-Nehemiah as a Narrative of (Re-Invented) Israelite Identity (2003) (10)
Judean Ethnic Identity In Josephus’ Against Apion (2009) (10)
Visuality and Biblical text : interpreting Velázquez' Christ with Martha and Mary as a test case (2004) (9)
The Context Group Project: An Autobiographical Account (2004) (9)
Intergroup Conflict and Matthew 23: Towards Responsible Historical Interpretation of a Challenging Text (2015) (9)
Ethiopian Christianity: History, Theology, Practice (2019) (8)
Paul and Stoicism: Romans 12 as a Test Case (2004) (8)
Glossolalia and the Admission of Gentiles Into the Early Christian Community (1992) (8)
New Testament theology : communion and community (2005) (7)
The Mediterranean Context of Early Christianity (2017) (7)
Judaean and Christ-Follower Identities: Grounds for a Distinction (2017) (6)
Sex, Wives, and Warriors: Reading Biblical Narrative with Its Ancient Audience (2011) (6)
“All that you have done … has been fully told to me” the power of gossip and the story of Ruth (2018) (5)
Sex, wives, and warriors: reading Old Testament narrative with its ancient audience (2011) (5)
The Incident of the Withered Fig Tree in Mark 11: A New Source and Redactional Explanation (2005) (5)
Reading Matthew by the Dead Sea: Matthew 8:5-13 in Light of P. Yadin 11 (2014) (4)
Community and gospel in Luke–Acts: The poor and the rich (1987) (4)
Judean Ethnic Identity and the Matthean Jesus (2013) (4)
"Remember My Fetters": Memorialisation Of Paul’s Imprisonment (2007) (4)
The Sodom Tradition in Romans 1:18–32 (2004) (4)
Review: Agape, Eros, Gender. Towards a Pauline Sexual Ethic (2002) (4)
Political Oppression in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (1993) (3)
God's Court and Courtiers in the Book of the Watchers: Re-Interpreting Heaven in 1 Enoch 1–36 (2017) (3)
New Testament Interpretation as Interpersonal Communion: the Case for a Socio‐Theological Hermeneutics (2008) (2)
The Blessing of Enoch: 1 Enoch and Contemporary Theology (2018) (1)
“All That You Have Done … Has Been Fully Told to Me”: The Power of Gossip and the Story of Ruth (2018) (1)
Deus Victor: The Nature and Defeat of Evil in the Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36) (2017) (1)
Community and gospel in Luke–Acts: The Temple (1987) (1)
HILL, Craig C., Hellenists and Hebrews: Reappraising Division within the Earliest Church. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992. Pp. x + 237. Cl. Np. ISBN 0-8006-2505-6 (1995) (1)
Funding basic research brings unexpected benefits (2007) (1)
New Light on Luke: Its Purpose, Sources and Literary Context (2005) (1)
The Great Sermon Tradition as a Fiscal Framework in 1 Corinthians: Towards a Pauline Theology of Material Possessions - Book Review (2012) (1)
Social-Scientific Approaches to Apocalyptic Literature (2014) (1)
2 Corinthians (2021) (1)
The World of Jesus and the Early Church: Identity and Interpretation in Early Communities of Faith. Edited by Craig A. Evans. (2015) (1)
2 Corinthians: A Social Identity Commentary (2021) (1)
DEVIANCE AND APOSTASY (2002) (1)
Lazarus, Mary and Martha : a social-scientific and theological reading of John (2011) (1)
Pacino di Bonaguida's Tree of Life: Interpreting the Bible in Paint in Early Fourteenth-Century Italy (2015) (1)
Reviews (2013) (0)
Life in Maoza (2017) (0)
The Social World of Early Judaism (2020) (0)
The End-Time in 1 Enoch, Paul and Matthew: Continuity and Discontinuity (2021) (0)
The Righteousness of Joseph: Interpreting Matt 1.18–25 in Light of Judean Legal Papyri (2022) (0)
Response to Part 1: (2021) (0)
P. Yadin 4: Its Character and Parties (2017) (0)
Painting 1 Enoch: Biblical Interpretation, Theology, and Artistic Practice (2020) (0)
Book Review: Social-Scientific Criticism of the New Testament (1995) (0)
The Corinthian Correspondence: Redaction, Rhetoric, and History. By Frank W. Hughes and Robert Jewett (2023) (0)
Book Review: Josephus and the New Testament (1994) (0)
Book Reviews: Mark Allan Powell, What Are They Saying about Luke? New York, NY/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1989. Pp. viii + 151. Paper, $5.95 (1993) (0)
Book Review: The Economy of the Kingdom (1990) (0)
Paul’s Explanation of Christ-Movement Identity in 2 Corinthians 6:14–7:1: A Social Identity Approach (2021) (0)
Community and gospel in Luke–Acts: Epilogue: community and Gospel (1987) (0)
Book Review: Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. By Zeba A. Crook. BZNW 130. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004. Pp. xv + 310. Cloth, $98.00 (2007) (0)
Nabatea and the Nabateans (2017) (0)
P. Yadin 4 and Shim‘on’s Purchase of the Orchard (2017) (0)
Archelaus Purchases a Date-Palm Orchard (99 CE) (2017) (0)
Community and gospel in Luke–Acts: The socio-redaction criticism of Luke–Acts (1987) (0)
Book Reviews : Paul On Marriage (1996) (0)
Muqimu Borrows Money from his Wife (94 CE) (2017) (0)
Female Agency by the Dead Sea: Evidence from the Babatha and Salome Komaïse Archives (2019) (0)
NEYREY, Jerome H., ed., The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991, Pp. xviii + 436. Cl. $19.95. ISBN 0-943575-48-6 (1993) (0)
Social-Scientific Readings of the Gospel and Letters of John (2018) (0)
Review: Charisma, Converts, Competitors, Societal and Sociological Factors in the Success of Early Christianity. (2003) (0)
Marriage by Capture in the Book of Judges: An Anthropological Approach (2018) (0)
Community and gospel in Luke–Acts: Table-fellowship (1987) (0)
Book review: The Idea of a Christian University (2008) (0)
OVERMAN, Andrew J., Matthew's Gospel and Formative Judaism: The Social World of the Matthean Community. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 174. Pbk. Np. ISBN 0-8006-2451-3 (1993) (0)
Prototypes, antitypes and social identity in First Clement: outlining a new interpretative model (2007) (0)
Book Reviews (1997) (0)
Rome and the ancestral theme (1987) (0)
Exploring Biblical Kinship: Festschrift in Honor of John J. Pilch. Edited by Joan C. Campbell and Patrick J. Hartin (2020) (0)
An Ancient Jewish Family Tale (2017) (0)
Babatha’s Final Days: New Light from Papyrus Starcky (2022) (0)
Ethnic Identities in the Dead Sea Legal Papyri and Matthew: (2020) (0)
Religion, Race, Whiteness in Constructions of Jewish and Christian Identities (2022) (0)
MALINA, Bruce J., and NEYREY, Jerome H., Portraits of Paul: An Archaeology of Ancient Personality. Louisville, KY: Westminster/ John Knox Press, 1996. Pbk. xv + 271 pp. NP. ISBN 0-664-25681-3 (1998) (0)
CORLEY, Kathleen E., Private Women, Public Meals: Social Conflict in the Synoptic Tradition. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1993. Pp. xxi + 217. Cl. $19.95. ISBN 1-56563-003-3 (1995) (0)
Abigail: A Woman of Wisdom and Decisive Action (2020) (0)
THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS (2002) (0)
Millennialism and Daniel 7 (2002) (0)
Reading the Mediterranean social script (2002) (0)
Community and gospel in Luke–Acts: Sectarian strategies (1987) (0)
Book Review: Lamentations through the Centuries (2017) (0)
The Adoption and Use of the Word ἘΚΚΛΗΣΊΑ in the Early Christ-Movement (2021) (0)
Shim‘on Purchases a Date-Palm Orchard (99 CE) (2017) (0)
Archelaus Rescinds his Purchase (2017) (0)

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