Professor Markus Bockmuehl

Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture

 

Academic Biography

  • Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture (2014 – present)
  • Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, University of Oxford (2007 – 2014); Associate Head (Graduate Studies), Humanities Division (2011 – 2013)
  • Professor, University of St Andrews (2006 – 2007)
  • Assistant Lecturer/Lecturer/Reader/Professor, University of Cambridge (1989 – 2006)
  • Assistant Professor, Regent College, Vancouver, Canada (1988 – 1989)
  • Sessional Lecturer in Hebrew, University of British Columbia (1988 – 1989)
  • Research Assistant in Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions, University of Cambridge (1987 – 1988)

Some Recent Publications

  • 2026      “Silence and Eloquence on Ephraim in the First Three Christian Centuries.” In M. Cutino & C. Cerami (eds), The Twelve Tribes of Israel: Jewish-Christian Interpretations between Ruptures and Continuities (1st-5th centuries), 87-102. Jewish and Christian Perspectives 44. Leiden etc.: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004757691_006
  • 2026      “Jesus Books, Gospel Fragments, and Gospel Harmonies: Rewriting the Jesus Tradition.” With Jacob A. Rodriguez. In A Handbook to Second–Century Christianity, 337-63. Ed. M.F. Bird & S. Harrower. Waco: Baylor University Press.
  • 2025      “Scripture, Dissent and Ecclesial Discernment in the Second Century.” In Aleksandra Brand, Aaron Pidel and Thomas Söding (eds), Die Heilige Schrift in der katholischen Kirche/Holy Scripture in the Catholic Church: Ekklesiale Dimensionen biblischer Exegese/Ecclesial Dimensions of Biblical Hermeneutics, 119-34. Herders Biblische Studien 102. Freiburg etc.: Herder.  ISBN 9783451398025
  • 2025      “The Writing and Reading of Apocryphal Gospels.” With Jacob A. Rodriguez. Online at https://textandcanon.org/what-are-the-apocryphal-gospels/
  • 2025      “The Risen Jesus.” in The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus, 72–87. Ed. M. Bockmuehl. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2025 Holman Hunt and The Light of the World in Oxford. Ed. M. Bockmuehl. Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts. London/New York: Routledge. Pp. xii+183. ISBN 978-1032533308
  • 2024. The Creed and the Scriptures. Ed. M. Bockmuehl & N. Eubank. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. WUNT 519. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.  ISBN 9783161615986
  • 2024      “The Myth of Creedless Judaism.” In The Creed and the Scriptures, 15–29. Ed. M. Bockmuehl & N. Eubank. WUNT 519. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.2025 The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus. Ed. M. Bockmuehl. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xiv+426. ISBN 978-1009233026
  • 2024 ‘Friendships Between Jews and Christians in Antiquity.’ In D Friedman & K Czajkowski (eds), Looking in, Looking Out: Jews and Christians in Mutual Contemplation. Essays for Martin Goodman on His 70th Birthday, 291-319. JJSSup 212. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
  • 2024      “Christ Stopped at Ephraim (John 11:54).” In Early High Christology: John among the New Testament Writers, 31–41, 227–234. Ed. Chris Blumhofer, Diane Chen & Joel B. Green. Minneapolis: Fortress.
  • 2023 ‘Jesus the Just.’ Journal for the Study of the New Testament 46: 19-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064X231191188 (open access)
  • 2022 ‘Being Emmanuel: Matthew’s Ever-Present Jesus?’ New Testament Studies 68: 1-12.
  • 2021 ‘Introduction: The Abancourt Hours.’ In The Abancourt Hours, 17-24. Ed. D. H. N. Yeung & G. della Rocca de Candal. Hong Kong: Institute of Sino-Christian Studies. [+ Translation, Chinese Part II, pp. 25-34: 導言 《阿邦古日課書》[‘Dǎoyán: “ā bāng gǔ rìkè shū”’]. ISBN 9789888165605
  • 2020 ‘The Presence of the Ascended Son in the Gospel of John.’ Nova et Vetera 18: 1301-22.
  • 2020. Austin Farrer: Oxford Warden, Scholar, Preacher. Ed. M. Bockmuehl & S. Platten. London: SCM Press. ISBN 97803340585952019. 
  • 2020. ‘Conflicting Criminal Jurisdictions in Early Christianity.’ In Mark Hill et al. (eds), Christianity and Criminal Law, 31-46. Law and Religion. London/New York: Routledge.
  • 2020. ‘Attitudes to Jewish and Roman Power in the Gospel and Acts of Peter.’ In R. Dijkstra (ed.), The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800): The Anchors of the Fisherman, 81-98. Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation. Leiden/Boston: Brill.    doi.org/10.1163/9789004425682_006 (Open Access)
  • 2019. “The Dynamic Absence of Jesus in Hebrews.” Journal of Theological Studies 70: 141-62. doi.org/10.1093/jts/fly167
  • 2019. “Fourfold Gospel Writing.” In Writing the Gospels: A Dialogue with Francis Watson, 40-60. Ed. C. S. Hamilton with J. Willitts. Library of New Testament Studies 606. London/New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark.
  • 2018. Creation Ex Nihilo: Origins, Development, Contemporary Challenges. Ed. G.A. Anderson & M. Bockmuehl. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. Pp. 410. ISBN 9780268102531.
  • 2018. ‘Scriptural Completion in the Infancy Gospel of James.’ Pro Ecclesia 26: 180-202. doi.org/10.1177/106385121802700203
  • 2017 Ancient Apocryphal Gospels. Interpretation: Resources. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox. Pp. 336.  ISBN 9780664235895.

See also Professor Bockmuehl’s webpages at Keble College and the Faculty of Theology and Religion.

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