Journal for the Study of the New Testament

Print ISSN: 0142-064X Publisher: Sage Publications

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Why Did Paul Write to the Galatians? Galatians 4.20 and Paul’s Epistolary Strategy.
Ian J. ElmerSchool of Theology, Australian Catholic University, Australia.
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Paul’s statement in Galatians 4.20 (‘I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone’) is commonly read as evidence that, although Paul preferred to address the Galatian crisis in person, he was prevented by circumstance from doing so and ...

July 28, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261465707 open full text
‘Daughter, Your Faith Has Saved You’: The Salvation of St. Veronica.
Abigail Rose ThompsonDuke University Divinity School, USA.
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The themes of faith and salvation are evident in the literary, historical, and grammatical context of Mk 5.25–34. St. Veronica, or ‘the woman with the issue of blood’, was not seeking physical healing, but holistic salvation, salvation that she received ...

July 21, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261465041 open full text
Drinking in the Kingdom: The Last Supper ‘Vow’ of Jesus and His Death in the Synoptic Gospels.
Michael Patrick BarberAugustine Institute Graduate School, USA.
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In Matthew and Mark, Jesus’s death on the cross is immediately preceded by the offer of a drink (Mt. 27.48//Mk 15.36). While many have argued that Jesus never receives the drink, this paper makes the case that Matthew and Mark both intend the reader to ...

July 18, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261459133 open full text
Mark 8.24—An Apocalyptic Vision?
Mateusz KusioFaculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. July 07, 2026

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The article offers a new interpretation of the healing of the blind man of Bethsaida in Mark 8.22–26, and especially his vision of walking trees in verse 24. The argument begins with a survey of premodern reception and critical scholarship on the episode, ...

July 07, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261457663 open full text
A Woman of Influence: Exploring the Role(s) of Apphia in Paul’s Appeal to Philemon.
Robin G. ThompsonGrand Canyon Theological Seminary & Grand Canyon University, USA.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. June 29, 2026

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Paul includes Apphia as a recipient in his letter to Philemon. He addresses her as ‘the sister’ but gives no further indication of her role. While scholars have often assumed that Apphia is Philemon’s wife, a close reading of the text points away from ...

June 29, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261453925 open full text
Elemental Imagery, Stoic Physics, and Jewish Cosmogony: Enargeia, Synecdoche, and Conceptual Blending in 2 Peter 3.
Douglas EstesNew College of Florida, USA.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. June 26, 2026

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Elemental imagery, Stoic physics, and Jewish cosmogony converge in 2 Peter 3 to create a rhetorically sophisticated vision of apocalyptic renewal. The repeated invocation of elemental terms in 2 Pet. 3 serves both as vivid imagery and as synecdoche, ...

June 26, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261455924 open full text
A Common Reading of Gen. 2.7? The Case of the Anthropologies of Philo, Paul, and the Gospel of John.
Daniel JacksonFreie Theologische Hochschule Gießen, Germany.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. June 10, 2026

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This article examines the possibility of a common reading of Gen. 2.7 (LXX) between Philo, Paul, and the Gospel of John. Although some streams in scholarship suggest such a shared reading, previous comparisons have tended to focus narrowly on citations or ...

June 10, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261448591 open full text
‘Better Than I Ever Was’: ‘Not Enslaved’ as a Higher Status in 1 Corinthians 7.15.
A. Andrew DasElmhurst University, USA.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. May 23, 2026

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In 1 Cor. 7.15 the believer is not bound when the non-Christ-believer insists on divorce. What is often overlooked is that Paul neither employs δέω/‘bound’ as in 1 Cor. 7.39 nor claims a spouse’s ‘freedom’/‘permission’ to remarry, a defining feature of ...

May 23, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261443472 open full text
From the Editor.
Olegs Andrejevs.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. April 27, 2026

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 785-785, June 2026.

April 27, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261436245 open full text
Redescribing the Pauline Corpus as a Pseudonymous Collection of the Second Century.
Nina E. LiveseyUniversity of Oklahoma, USA.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. April 21, 2026

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The authenticity and genuineness of seven Pauline letters is rarely questioned in modern scholarship. Yet by scratching beneath the surface of arguments made in support of this perspective, one finds porous ground. Scholars do not substantiate the ...

April 21, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261437429 open full text
Specifying πορνεία in Matthew 5.32 and 19.9 via Overlooked Contextualization.
Thomas FineganMary Immaculate College, Ireland.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. April 14, 2026

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Matthew’s divorce clause remains one of the most vexed questions in NT studies. The generality of the keyword πορνεία stumps commentators, while little help appears forthcoming from the clause’s immediate context, the wider statements of Mt. 5.32 and ...

April 14, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261432678 open full text
Flipping the Script in Phil. 2.6b: Setting ἁρπαγµός in the Religious Context of First Century Philippi.
Matthew W. MeyerUniversity of Aberdeen, UK.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. April 07, 2026

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This article introduces new evidence that sheds light on Paul’s use of ἁρπαγμός in Phil. 2.6b. This word has been much discussed, and it is sometimes claimed that Paul intends it to evoke a contrast between Christ and Greco-Roman gods and rulers, yet the ...

April 07, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261429873 open full text
Relapsing, Reverting, or Rejecting? The Purpose of Hebrews and Early Jewish Religion.
Madison N. PierceUniversity of St Andrews, St Mary’s College, UK.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. March 30, 2026

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 815-843, June 2026.
For far too long, many interpreters of Hebrews have held the view that the author wrote to dissuade the audience from a return to Judaism—the so-called ‘relapse theory’. This article demonstrates the ways in which this theory does not cohere with current ...

March 30, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261432481 open full text
Decoding Mark’s Messianic Secret with Georg Simmel.
Gabriella GelardiniFaculty of Education and Arts, Nord University, Norway.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. March 29, 2026

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 873-902, June 2026.
This article examines the messianic secret in the Gospel of Mark, considering the paradigm shift within New Testament Studies, according to which the New Testament is to be regarded as part of Second Temple Judaism’s textual corpus, while viewing it ...

March 29, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261428105 open full text
Simon Peter’s Wife in (and out of) Early Christian Writings.
Noel CheongUniversity of Bonn, Germany.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. March 24, 2026

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How is the apostle Peter’s wife portrayed in early Christian writings? Within the first century CE, texts like 1 Corinthians and the Synoptic Gospels seemingly take for granted that Peter was married, but do not explicitly mention his wife. In the second ...

March 24, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261421251 open full text
The Gerasene Pericope and Disability Studies: Irony, Empire, and (In)complete Reintegration in Mk 5.1–20.
Agnieszka B. ZiemińskaPontifical University of John Paul II, Poland.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. February 12, 2026

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This article rereads Mk 5.1–20 through Disability Studies and Mad Studies, presenting the Gerasene episode as social critique rather than a simple miracle narrative. ‘Legion’ functions as a marker of Roman domination and communal labelling that produce ...

February 12, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X261418691 open full text
Satan’s Imprisonment (Rev. 20) and Allusions to 1 Enoch 10, 54–57, and the Day of Atonement.
D. Houston BeckworthSouthern Adventist University, USA.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. January 27, 2026

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 987-1014, June 2026.
This article argues that Satan’s plot in Revelation 20 draws from the Asael/Azazel myth in 1 Enoch 10.4–8 and 54–57. The former Enochic passage, like Rev. 20, tells of an angel who is commissioned to imprison a rebellious angel for the moral corruption of ...

January 27, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X251413681 open full text
A Tomb Fit for a Prophet: An Investigation into the Historical Plausibility of the Gospel Burial Accounts.
Tim CarterCranmer Hall, St John’s College, University of Durham, UK.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. January 05, 2026

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 903-934, June 2026.
Why was the body of a man crucified by the Romans buried in a rock-hewn tomb? Whereas Jewish scruples about leaving the dead unburied would have been satisfied by burying Jesus in a shallow grave, a survey of Jewish burial practices indicates that instead ...

January 05, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0142064X251406657 open full text
Language Games and the Meaning(s) of ‘Meaning’: Two Problems with Jonathan Rowlands’s Defense of ‘Theological Readings’.
John C. PoirierIndependent scholar, USA.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. December 29, 2025

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 1015-1021, June 2026.
Jonathan Rowlands recently argued that the historical-critical and the TIS approaches to reading Scripture are both justified, by their own lights, in that each represents a ‘language game’ whose rules are grounded in nothing more than a preference for a ...

December 29, 2025 doi: 10.1177/0142064X251403218 open full text
The Pernicious Supremacy of the Christian Codex.
Lydia Bremer-McCollumSpelman College, USA.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. December 17, 2025

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 786-814, June 2026.
In this article, the author examines how Christian supremacy and anti-Jewish rhetoric appears in the discourse about ancient biblical manuscripts, especially codices or bound book forms. Through a rhetorical-ethical analysis, the writer investigates how ...

December 17, 2025 doi: 10.1177/0142064X251380844 open full text
Ethnic Differentiations in Sin? Mapping Jewish Sin in Romans.
Karl Olav SandnesMF School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. November 10, 2025

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 935-957, June 2026.
Are gentile and Jewish sin in Romans differentiated, so that chs. 9–11 are set apart from how Paul speaks of sin earlier in the epistle? Stephen L. Young has argued just that, and this article critically addresses his position, which is exaggerated and ...

November 10, 2025 doi: 10.1177/0142064X251384664 open full text
Re-Judaizing Jesus: Remembering the Sacrificial Cult in the Gospel of Matthew.
Simon J. JosephInterdepartmental Program in the Study of Religion, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. October 21, 2025

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 844-872, June 2026.
The Gospel of Matthew is commonly regarded as ‘the most Jewish’ of the four New Testament Gospels. Some biblical scholars who specialize in the Gospel of Matthew now hold it to be a relatively faithful account or representation of Jesus’s own ‘Jewishness’...

October 21, 2025 doi: 10.1177/0142064X251380686 open full text
The Salvation of All Israel in Romans 11.26: A New Exegetical Perspective.
Ramez J. HabashGlobal University, USA.
Journal for the Study of the New Testament. October 05, 2025

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 958-986, June 2026.
The understanding of the salvation of all Israel in Rom. 11.26 remains controversial. In this article I propose a new perspective—the genealogical-religious Israelite view—based on Paul’s distinctive use of ‘Jews’ and ‘Israel’ and the occasion of his ...

October 05, 2025 doi: 10.1177/0142064X251377789 open full text