Faculty Publications

Name: Dr. F. Scott Spencer

Title: Professor of New Testament

Published work(s):

Dancing Girls, “Loose” Ladies, and Women of “the Cloth”: The Women in Jesus’ Life, Continuum, 2004.

What Did Jesus Do?: Gospel Profiles of Jesus’ Personal Conduct, Trinity Press International, 2003.

Journeying Through Acts: A Literary-Cultural Reading, Hendrickson Publishers, 2004.

The Portrait of Philip in Acts: A Study of Roles and Relations, Sheffield Academic Press, 1992.

Published article(s):

“Metaphor, Mystery, and the Salvation of Israel in Romans 9-11: Paul’s Appeal to Humility and Doxology,” Review and Expositor 103 (2006) 113-38.

“Preparing the Way of the Lord: Introducing and Interpreting Luke’s Narrative (A Response to David Wenham), in Reading Luke: Interpretation, Reflection, Formation (ed. C. G. Bartholomew, J. B. Green, and A. C. Thiselton; Scripture and Hermeneutics 6; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005) 104-124.

“David and Bathsheba: A Case of Mis-Sent Power,” in Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction (ed. M. Roncace and P. Gray; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005) 155-56.

“Who’s On First?: Tracking Gospel Relations,” in Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction (ed. M. Roncace and P. Gray; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005) 257-59.

“‘Follow Me’: The Imperious Call of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels,” Interpretation 59 (2005) 142-53.

“Those Riotous—yet Righteous—Foremothers of Jesus: Exploring Matthew’s Comic Genealogy,” in Are We Amused?: Humour About Women in the Biblical Worlds (ed. Athalya Brenner; T & T Clark International, 2003) 7-30.

“‘You Just Don’t Understand’ (or Do You?): Jesus, Women and Conversation in the Fourth Gospel,” in A Feminist Companion to the New Testament: John, vol. 1 (ed. Amy-Jill Levine; T & T Clark  International, 2004) 15-47.

“Women of ‘the Cloth’ in Acts: Sewing the Word,” in A Feminist Companion to the New Testament: Acts (ed. Amy-Jill Levine; T & T Clark International, 2004) 134-54.

“A Waiter, a Fisherman, a Magician, and a Eunuch: The Pieces and Puzzles of Acts 8,” Forum, New Series 3 (2000) 155-78.

“Ethiopian Eunuch,” “Eunuch,” “Theudas,” “Damaris,” “Tertullus,” “Sceva,” and “Zealots,” in Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (ed. D. N. Freedman), Eerdmans, 2000.

“Out of Mind, Out of Voice: Slave-Girls and Prophetic Daughters in Luke-Acts,” Biblical Interpretation 7 (1999) 133-55.

“Paul’s Odyssey in Acts: Status Struggles and Island Adventures,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 28 (1999) 150-59.

“Philip the Evangelist,” in Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments (ed. R. P. Martin and P. H. Davids; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997) 929-31.

“Neglected Widows in Acts 6:1-7,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 56 (1994) 714-33.

“Acts and Modern Literary Approaches,” in The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting.  Vol. 1: Ancient Literary Setting (ed. B. W. Winter and A. D. Clarke; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993) 381-414.

“The Ethiopian Eunuch and His Bible: A Social-Science Analysis,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 22 (1992) 155-65.

“Beyond Trench’s Study of Synonyms” [Distinguishing New Testament Synonyms for “Patience”], Expository Times 99 (1988) 140-44
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