-----Annotated Bibliography-----
Research Updates and Bibliography Lists

Aune, David E.  The New Testament in Its Literary Environment. Vol. 8 of Library of Early Christianity.  Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1987.

Bailey, James L., and Lyle D. Vander Broek. Literary Forms in the New Testament: A Handbook. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.

Berger, Klaus. “Hellenistische Gattungen im Neuen Testament.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung, ed. Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, 2.25.2:1031-1432. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1984.
 
 

1.2 Narratives

1.2.1 Infancy Narrative

1.2.2 Pronouncement Story

1.2.3 Miracle Story

1.2.3.1 Exorcisms

1.2.3.2 Healings of Diseases

1.2.3.3 Nature Miracles

1.2.4 Hero Story

1.3 Sayings Materials

1.3.1 Logia

1.3.2 Parables

1.4 Passion Narrative
      (Passio Jesu)

2.1.1 Narrative
 

2.1.1.1 Summary Narrative

2.1.1.2 Episodic Narrative
 

2.1.1.2.1 Miracle Narrative

Hamblin, Robert L.  “Miracles in the Book of Acts.”  Southwestern Journal of Theology 17 (1974): 19-34.

2.1.1.2.2 Commissioning Narrative
 

2.1.2 Speech

2.1.2.1 Missionary Speech

2.1.2.2 Defense Speech

2.1.3 Acts 15
 

Andresen, Carl.  “Zum Formular frühchristlicher Gemeindebriefe.” Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 56 (1965): 233-59.

Aune, David E.  The New Testament in Its Literary Environment. Vol. 8 of Library of Early Christianity.  Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1987.
[See chaps. 5 & 6 on epistolary research; important bibliography at end of each chapter.]

Bahr, Gordon J.  “Paul and Letter Writing in the Fifth Century.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 28 (1966): 465-77.

Barnett, Albert.  Paul Becomes a Literary Influence.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941.

Berger, Klaus.  “Apostelbrief und apostolische Rede: Zum Formular frühchristlicher Briefe.” Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentlische Wissenschaft 65 (1974): 191-207.

Bromiley, Geoffrey W., ed.  The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.  S.V. “Letters,” by G. A. Lee.

Carrington, Philip.  The Primitive Christian Catechism.  Cambridge: University Press, 1940.

Crim, Keith, ed. Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible.  Supplementary Volume.  S.v. “Letters,” by N. A. Dahl.
[very helpful bibliography]

Deissmann, Adolf.  Light from the Ancient East. Twin Book Series.  Translated by Lionel R. M. Strachan.  London: Hodder & Stroughton, 1910.

Deissmann, Adolf.  Paul: A Study in Social and Religious History. Translated by W. E. Wilson.  2nd edition.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.

Dibelius, Martin.  From Tradition to Gospel.  Translated by B. L. Woolf.  New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1934.

Doty, William G.  “The Classification of Epistolary Literature.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 31 (1969): 183-99.

Doty, William G.  Letters in Primitive Christianity.  Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1973.
[Very important survey work.]

Exler, Francis Xavier J.  The Form of the Ancient Greek Letter of the Epistolary Papyri.  Chicago: Ares Publishers, Inc., 1976.
[A major contribution to epistolary research.]

Funk, Robert W.  “The Apostolic Parousia: Form and Significance.”  In Christian History and Interpretation: Studies Present to John Knox.  Edited by W. R. Farmer, C. F. D. Moule, and R. Niebuhr.  Cambridge: University Press, 1967.

Hunt, A. S., and Edgar, C. C.  Select Papyri.  4 vols. in the Loeb Classical Library.  Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1970.

Koskenniemi, Heikki.  Studies in the Concept and Phraseology of the Greek Letter to 400 C. E.  Helsinki: Suomalaien Tiedeakatemie, 1956.

Köster, Friedrich.  “Ob St. Paulus seine Sprache an der des Demosthenes gebildet habe?”  Theologische Studien und Kritiken 27 (1854): 305-22.

Meecham, Henry G.  Light from Ancient Letters. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1923.

Morgenstern, Otto.  “Cicero und die Stenographie.”  Archive für Stenograhie 56 (1905): 2-4.

Mullins, Terence.  “Disclosure: A Literary Form in the New Testament.” Novum Testamentum 7 (1964): 44-50.
[Mullins is a significant contributor to epistolary research.]

Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum.  S.v. “Brief,” by J. Schneider; “Epistolographie,” by I. Sukutris.
 [Very important early treatments.]

Rigaux, Beda.  Letters of St. Paul: Modern Studies.  Edited and translated by Stephen Yonick.  Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1962.

Roller, Otto.  Das Formular der paulinischen Briefe.  Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1933.
[A very important pioneer in epistolary research.]

Schnider, Franz, and Stenger, Werner.  Studien zum neutestamentlichen Briefformular.  Vol. 11 of New Testament Tools and Studies.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1987.
 [A most important recent general treatment of this field; significant bibliography, pp. 182-91.]

Stowers, Stanley K.  Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Vol. 5 of Library of Early Christianity.  Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986.
[Very important recent work; helpful but limited bibliography.]

Thyn, Hartwig.  Der Stil der jüdisch-hellenistischen Homilie.  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1955.

White, John. "Ancient Greek Letters." In Graeco-Roman Literature and the New Testament. Edited by David Aune. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.

White, John L.  The Form and Function of the body of the Greek Letter: A Study of the Letter-Body in the Non-Literary Papyri and in Paul the Apostle.  Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series, vol. 2.  Missoula: Scholars Press, 1972.
[White is the preeminent American scholar in epistolary research.]

White, John L.  The Form and Structure of the Official Petition. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series, vol. 5.  Missoula: Scholar’s Press, 1972.

White, John L.  Light from Ancient Letters.  Foundations and Facets.  Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986.
 [Very important primary source book of ancient letters with Greek text and current English translation; important bibliography on epistolary research, pp. 221-24; Introduction, pp. 3-20, contains helpful survey of letter writing patterns in ancient world.]

White, John L.  “New Testament Epistolary Literature in the Framework of Ancient Epistolography.”  In vol. II.25.2 of Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt.  Edited by H. Temporini and W. Haase.  Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1984.
[See pp. 1730-56; very important recent update of research.]

White, John L. “Saint Paul and the Apostolic Letter Tradition.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 45 (1983): 433-44.

White, John L., ed. Studies in Ancient Letter Writing.  Vol. 22 of Semeia: An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism.  Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982.
 [The entire volume treats the issue of ancient letter writing; the most important article is that of White, “The Greek Documentary Letter Tradition Third century B.C.E. to Third Century C.E.”]

Wilder, Amos N.  “The Rhetoric of Ancient and Modern Apocalyptic.” Interpretation 25 (1971): 436-53.

Winter, John G.  Life and Letters in the Papyri.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1933.

3.1 Praescriptio

Bahr, Gordon J.  “The Subscriptions in the Pauline Letters.” Journal of Biblical Literature 87 (1968): 27-41.
 

3.1.1 Superscriptio (Sender)

3.1.2 Adscriptio (Recipient)

3.1.3 Salutatio (Greeting)

Mullins, Terence.  “Greeting as a New Testament Form.”  Journal of Biblical Literature 87 (1968): 418-26.
 

3.2 Proem

Mullins, Terence. “Petition as a Literary Form.” Novum Testamentum 5 (1962): 46-54.

Sanders, Jack T. “The Transition from Opening Eistolary Thanksgiving to Body in the Letters of the Pauline Corpus.”  Journal of Biblical Literature 71 (1962): 348-57.

Schubert, Paul.  Form and Function of the Pauline Thanksgiving. Vol. 20 of Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft.  Berlin: Topelmann, 1939.
 [Another important earlier contributor to epistolary research.]
 

3.2.1 Thanksgiving

O’Brian, Peter Thomas.  Introductory Thanksgivings in the Letters of Paul.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977.

3.2.2 Intercession

3.3 Body

3.3.1 Opening Formulae

3.3.1.1 Request/Appeal

3.3.1.2 Disclosure

3.3.1.3 Expressions of Astonishment

3.3.1.4 Formulae of Compliance

3.3.1.5 Formulae of Hearing/Learning

3.3.2 Narrative

3.3.3 Traditions Material

3.3.3.1 From worship liturgy

Charlesworth, J. H.  “A Prolegomenon to a New Study of the Jewish Background of the Hymns and Prayers in the New Testament.”  Journal of Jewish Studies 33 (1982): 265-85.

Käsemann, Ernst.  “Formeln II. Liturgische Formeln im NT.”  In vol. 2 of Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart.  3rd ed. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1958.

Martin, Ralph P.  “Aspects of Worship in the New Testament Church.”  In Vox Evangelica.  London: The Epworth Press, 1963.
 

3.3.3.1.1 Hymns

Deichgräber, Reinhard.  Gotteshymnus und Christushymnus in der frühen Christenheit.  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1967.

Schille, Gottfried.  Frühchristliche Hymnen.  Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1965.
 

3.3.3.1.2 Confessions of Faith

Neufeld, Vernon H.  The Earliest Christian Confessions.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1963.
 [Important bibliography in this area.]

Seeberg, Alfred. Der Katechismus der Urchristenheit. Theologische Bücherei, vol. 26. Münich: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1966.

3.3.3.1.3 Lord's  Supper Narratives

3.3.3.2 From early preaching

3.3.3.2.1 Kerygma

3.3.3.2.2 Verba Christi

3.3.3.3 Old Testament Allusion

3.3.3.4 Old Testament Citation

3.3.4 Paraenesis

Malherbe, Abraham J.  Moral Exhortation, A Greco-Roman Stourcebook.  Vol. 4 of Library of Early Christianity.  Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986.

Schrage, Wolfgang.  Die konkreten Einzelgebote in den paulinischen Paränese.  Ein Beitrag zur neutestamentlichen Ethik.  Gütersloh: Gütersloh Verlag, 1961.

Schrage, Wolfgang. "The Ethics of Responsibility in the Deutero-Pauline Epistles." Chap. in The Ethics of the New Testament. Translated by D. E. Green. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982.

3.3.4.1 Lists of Vice/Virtues

Crim, Keith, ed. Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible.  S.v. “Lists, Ethical,” by O. J. F. Seitz.

Easton, Burton S.  “New Testament Ethical Lists.”  Journal of Biblical Literature 51 (1932): 1-12.
[Important early work on vice/virtue lists in NT.]

Kamlah, E.  Die Form der katalogischen Paränese im Neuen Testament.  Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1964.

Seitz, Oscar J. F. “Lists, Ethical.” In The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, ed. George Arthur Buttrick, 3:137-39. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962.

Vögtle, Anton. Die Tugend- und Lasterkataloge im Neuen Testament: Exegetisch, religions- und formgeschichtlich untersucht.  Münster, n.p., 1936.

Wendland, Heinz-Dietrich.  Ethik des Neuen Testaments.  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1970.
 [Important for study of vice/virture lists.]

Wibbing, S.  Die Tugend- und Lasterkataloge im Neuen Testament und ihre Traditionsgeschichte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Qumrantexte. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1959.
 

3.3.4.2 Haustafeln (Domestic Code)

Balch, David L.  Let Wives Be Submissive: The Domestic Code in 1 Peter.  Chico: Scholars Press, 1981.

Balch, David L. “Household Codes.” In The Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. David Noel Freedman, 3:318-20. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Brown, Colin, Ed. The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975-78.  S.v. "ajrethv /Haustafeln," by R. P. Martin

Crouch, James E. The Origin and Intention of the Colossian Haustafel. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1972.

Daube, David. "Haustafeln." Chap. in The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism. London: University of London, 1956.

Fiedler, Peter. “Haustafeln.” In Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum: Sachwörterbuch zur Auseinandersetzung des Christentums mit der Antiken Welt, ed. Theodor Klauser, Ernst Dassmann, Carsten Colpe, Albrecht Dihle, Josef Engemann, Bernhard Kötting, Wolfgand Speyer, Klaus Thraede, and Jan Hendrik Waszink, 13:1063-74. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1986.

John T. Fitzgerald, John T. "Haustafeln." In Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. David Noel Freedman, et al. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Goppelt, Leonard. "Jesus und die 'Haustafel' Tradition." In Orientierung an Jesus: Zur Theologie der Synoptiker, ed. P. Hoffman, 93-106. Freiburg: Verlag Herder, 1973.

Gross, Carl D. “Are the Wives of 1 Peter 3.7 Christians?” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 35 (1989): 89-96.

Hartmann, L. “Some Unorthodox Thoughts on the ‘Household-Code Form’.” In The Social World of Formative Christianity and Judaism: Essays in Tribute to Howard Clark Kee, ed. Jacob Neusner, Peder Borgen, Ernest S. Frerichs, and Richard Horsley. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988.

Kiley, Mark. “Like Sara: The Tale of Terror Behind 1 Peter 3:6.” Journal of Biblical Literature 106: (1987): 689-92.

Lillie, William. "The Pauline House-tables." The Expository Times 86, no. 6 (March 1975): 179-83.

Link, Hans-Georg. “Haustafel.” In The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, ed. Colin Brown, 59. Regency Reference Library. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1975.

Lips, Hermann von. “Die Haustafel als ‘Topos’ im Rahmen der urchristlichen Paränese: Beobachtungen anhand des 1. Petrusbriefes und des Titusbriefes.” New Testament Studies 40 (1994): 261-80.

Lührmann, Dieter. “Neutestamentliche Hastafeln und antike Ökonomie.” New Testament Studies 27 (1981): 83-97.

Rengstorff, Karl. "Die neutestamentliche Mahnungen an die Frau sich dem Manne unterzuordnen." In Verbum Die Manet in Aeternum, ed. W. Foerster, 131-45. Wittenberg: Luther Verlag, 1953.

Schrage, Wolfgang. “Zur Ethik der neutestamentlichen Haustafeln.” New Testament Studies 21 (1974): 1-22.

Schroeder, D.  "Die Haustafeln des Neuen Testaments: Ihre Herkunft und ihr theologischer Sinn."  Ph.D. dissertation, Hamburg, 1959.

Schweizer, Eduard. “Die Weltlichkeit des Neuen Testaments: Die Haustafeln.” In Beiträge zur Alttestamentlichen Theologie: Festschrift für Walther Zimmerli, ed. Herbert Donner, Robert Hanhart, and Rudolph Smend, 397-413. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977.

Stambaugh, John E., and David L. Balch. The New Testament in Its Social Environment. Library of Early Christianity, ed. W. A. Meeks, no. 2. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1986.

Thraede, Klaus. “Zum historischen Hintergrund der ‘Haustafeln’ des NT.” In Pietas: Festschrift für Bernhard Kötting, ed. Ernst Dassmann and K. Suso Frank, 359-68. Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, no. 8. Münster: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1980.

Towner, Phillip H. “Households and Household Codes.” In Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. Gerald F. Hawthorne and Ralph P. Martin, 417-19. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 1993.

Weidinger, Karl. Die Haustafeln: Ein Stück urchristlicher Paränese. Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, ed. Hans Windisch, no. 14. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1928.
 

3.3.4.3 Duty Codes (Gemeindetafeln)

3.3.4.4 Judgment Form

Roetzel, Calvin.  “The Judgment Form in Paul’s Letters.” Journal of Biblical Literature 88 (1969): 305-12.
 

3.3.5 Closing

3.3.5.1 Eschatological Affirmations

Doty, William G.  “Identifying Eschatological Language.” Continuum 7 (1970): 546-61.

Gager, John G.  “Functional Diversity in Paul’s Use of End-Time Language.”  Journal of Biblical Literature 89 (1970): 325-37.

Snyder, Graydon F.  “The Literalization of the Apocalyptic Form in the New Testament Church.”  Biblical Research 14 (1969): 5-18.
 

3.3.5.2 Travelogue/Apostolic Parousia

3.4 Conclusio (Eschatokoll)

3.4.1 Greetings

3.4.2 Sender Verification

3.4.3 Doxologies

Elliott, J. K.  “The Language and Style of the Concluding Doxology to the Epistle to the Romans.” Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 72 (1981): 124-30.
 

3.4.4 Benediction

Jewett, Robert.  “The Form and Function of Homiletic Benediction.” Anglican Theological Review 51 (1969): 19-23.

4.1 Vision

4.2 Letter
 

Cranford, Lorin L. Exegeting the New Testament: A Seminar Working Model with Expanded Research Bibliography. 2d rev. ed. Fort Worth: Scripta Publishing, 1991.

Matthew

Mark

John
 

History

Romans

1 Corinthians
 

2 Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Colossians

1 Thessalonians

2 Thessalonians

1 Timothy

2 Timothy

Titus

Philemon

Hebrews

General Letters

Pearson, Birger A. “James, 1-2 Peter, Jude.” In The New Testament and Its Modern Interpreters, ed. Eldon Jay Epp and George W. MacRae, 371-406. The Bible and Its Modern Interpreters, ed. Douglas A. Knight, no. 3. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1989; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.
 

James

2 Peter

1 John

2 John

3 John

Jude

Revelation