Contributions to Scholarly Books and Journals…

“New Creation: Spirituality according to Jesus,” in Biblical Spirituality: God’s Holiness and Our Spirituality, ed. Christopher W. Morgan, Theology in Community (Wheaton: Crossway, 2019): 79–106.

“Matthew as Apologist,” Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Christian Apologists and Their Critics.

“Historical Criticism: What Has It Shown?” Pages 63-90 in Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture. Edited by Steven B. Cowan and Terry L. Wilder. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2013.

“What Should We Think about the Gospel of Peter?” Pages 242-46 in Evidence for God. Edited by William A. Dembski and Michael R. Licona. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2010.

Why Not “Beginning from Bethlehem?: A Critique of Dunn’s Treatment of the Synoptic Birth Narratives.” Pages 173-96 in Memories of Jesus: A Critical Assessment of James D. G. Dunn’s Quest of the Historical Jesus. Edited by Robert B. Stewart and Gary Habermas. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2010.

Dunn, James D. G.” Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus (ed. C. A. Evans; New York: Routledge, 2008).

“Revisionist Views of Jesus,” in Passionate Conviction: Contemporary Discourses on Christian Apologetics (ed. Paul Copan and William Lane Craig; Nashville: B&H, 2007).

“Explaining the Gospel to Kids.” Pages 59-72 in The Mission of Today’s Church: Baptist Leaders Look at Modern Faith Issues (ed. R. Stanton Norman; Nashville: Broadman and Holman Academic, 2007), 59-72.

“Introduction and Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew” and “Introduction to the New Testament Letters,” Christian Standard Study Bible. Nashville: Broadman Holman, 2017.

"Introduction and Notes on the Pastoral Epistles." Apologetics Study Bible. Nashville: Broadman Holman, 2007.

“Sermon on the Mount.” Pages 299-302 in Harmony of the Gospels. Edited by Steve Cox and Kendell Easley; Nashville: B&H, 2007), 299-302.

“Commentary on the Gospel of Mark,” in Harmony of the Gospels. Edited by Steve Cox and Kendell Easley; Nashville: B&H, 2007).

“The Gospel of Peter: Does It Contain a Pre-canonical Resurrection Narrative?” Pages 106-120 in The Resurrection of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright in Dialogue. Edited by Robert Stewart. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.

Journals

“Matthew’s Apologia for a Suffering Messiah,” Expository Times 135 (2024): 425-427.

“Colossians 1.12a: A Case for the Reading of the Earliest Witnesses,” The Bible Translator 72.3 (2021): 380–92.

“The Oath Formulas of Matthew 23:16–22 as Evidence for a Pre-70 Date of Composition for Matthew’s Gospel,” Tyndale Bulletin 72 (2021): 1-24.

“Matthew 16.2b–3: New Considerations for a Difficult Textual Question,” New Testament Studies 66 (2020): 228–48.

“The Usefulness of Pre-genealogical Coherence for Detecting Multiple Emergence and Coincidental Agreement: Matthew 16.2b–3 as a Test Case,” New Testament Studies 67 (2021): 424–46.

“Lord or Legend: Jesus as the Messianic Son of Man,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 62.1 (2019): 103–24.

“Matthew 27:52-53 as a Scribal Interpolation: Testing a Recent Proposal,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 27.2 (2017): 207-226.

“‘Out of Egypt I Called My Son’: Intertextuality and Metalepsis in Matthew 2:15,” Southeastern Theological Review 8.1 (2017): 3-20.

Matthew 27:52-53: Meaning, Genre, Intertextuality, Theology, and Reception History.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 59 (2016): 271-286.

“The Blessings of the New Moses: An Examination of the Theological Purpose of the Matthean Beatitudes.” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 13 (2015): 305-325.

“Cei ce și-au părăsit mormintele după învierea lui Isus în Mat. 27:51-53” [“Those Coming out of the Tombs after Jesus’ Resurrection in Matthew 27:51-53”] in Sorin Sabou and Amiel Drimbe (eds.) Lucruri greu de inteles: Interpretarea unor pasaje dificile din Noul Testament [Some Things Hard to Understand: Interpreting Difficult Passages in the New Testament] (Bucuresti: Editura Universitara, 2015), 1–20.

Review of Michael R. Licona, The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2010) in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 54 (2011): 839-44.

“2 Thessalonians 1:9: Annihilation or Eternal Torment?” BSB-Journal: Theologische Zeitschrift für Gemeinde und Mission 2 (2011): 111-21.

“The Use of the ‘Gospel of Thomas’ in the Research on the historical Jesus of John Dominic Crossan.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 69 (2007): 517-36.

"The New Perspective and Means of Atonement in Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period." Criswell Theological Review 2.2 (Spring 2005) 39-56.

"Jesus as Merkabah Mystic." Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 3.1 (2005) 5-22.

“Was Jesus an Open Theist?: A Brief Examination of Greg Boyd’s Exegesis of Jesus’ Prayer in Gethsemane.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 8.3 (Fall 2004) 102-111.

“Jesus as Mamzer: A Response to Bruce Chilton’s Reconstruction of the Circumstances Surrounding Jesus’ Birth in Rabbi Jesus.” Bulletin for Biblical Research 14.2 (2004) 243-5.

"From Faith to Faith: A Fresh Examination of the Prepositional Series in Romans 1:17." Novum Testamentum 45 (2003) 1-21.

"The Protevangelium of James as an Alleged Parallel to Creative Historiography in the Synoptic Birth Narratives." Bulletin for Biblical Research 8 (1998): 1-1.

"The Apo of 2 Thessalonians 1:9 and the Nature of Eternal Punishment." Westminster Theological Journal 59 (1997): 201-1.

The Parable of the King, Luke 14:31-33." Mid-America Theological Journal 21 (1997): 59-68.

"Church Discipline in the Thessalonian Letters." Biblical Illustrator (Winter 1996): 66-72.

"Midrash as Creative Historiography: The Portrait of a Misnomer." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 39 (1996): 457-64.

"The Pauline Authorship of Ephesians." Mid-America Theological Journal 20 (1996): 1-15.

"The Soteriology of Rabbi Akiba and E. P. Sanders' Paul and Palestinian Judaism." New Testament Studies 42 (1996): 185-95.