Books
The Power of Children: The Construction of Christian Families in the Greco-Roman World
(Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2014) 239 pp.
A Woman’s Place: Early Christian House Churches – Co-author Carolyn Osiek (with Janet Tulloch)
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006), 345 pp.
Colossians and Ephesians, a volume of the Sacra Pagina Commentary series edited by D.J. Harrington
(Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 2000), 390pp.
Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion: The Power of the Hysterical Woman
(Cambridge University Press, 1996), 276 pp.
The Pauline Churches: A Socio-historical Study of Institutionalization in the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline Writings
(Cambridge University Press, 1988), 286 pp.
Book translations
El lugar de la mujer en la iglesia primitiva (Salamanca: Ediciones Sigueme, 2007), 397 pp. Spanish translation of A Woman’s Place.
Il ruolo delle donne nel christianesimo delle origini (Milano: Edizioni San Paolo, 2007), 403 pp. Italian translation of A Woman’s Place.
Las mujeres en el christianismo primitivo y la opinión pagana. El poder de la mujer histérica (Estella [Navarra] : Verbo Divino, 2004), 328 pp. Spanish translation of Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion.
Las Comunidades Paulinas (Salamanca: Ediciones Sigueme, 1994), 351 pp. Spanish translation of The Pauline Churches.
Book chapters and articles
“Law and Culture in 1 Corinthians 7: The Status of the Children”, in Edwin K. Broadhead, Paul Foster, and Wolfgang Kraus, Faith at the Interface of Cultures: Law and Gospel, Johannine Communities, and Hebrews. Leiden: Brill, 2024, 57-71.
“The Wet Nurse as a Model for Communal Relationships in 1 Thessalonians”, in Esther Kobel, Jo-Ann A. Brant, Meredith J. C. Warren (eds.) in collaboration with Andrew Bowden, The Ties that Bind: Negotiating Relationships in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, Contexts, and Reception History. LNTS 660; London: Bloomsbury, T&T Clark, 2023, 106-115.
“The Body as Space of Resistance: Response to Johnson, Moxnes, and Gil-Arbiol”, in John A. Egger and Christopher B. Zeichmann (eds), Recovering an Undomesticated Paul: Essays on the Legacy of Paul. Studies in Judaism and Christianity Series. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens Press, 2023, 379-96.
“Colossians and Ephesians”, in Ryan S. Schellenberg and Heidi Wendt (eds.), T&T Clark Handbook of the Historical Paul. London: Bloomsbury, T&T Clark, 2022, 379-96.
“Titus”, in Donald Senior, CP, Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara E. Reid, OP and John J. Collin (eds.), The Jerome Bible Commentary for the 21st Century. London: Bloomsbury, 2022, 1753-59.
“Education and the Household in the Pastoral Epistles”, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 75 (2021): 283-93.
“The Thessalonian and Corinthians Letters”, in Bruce W. Longenecker (ed.), The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 69-91.
“God’s Gift in Ephesians: Dwelling in the Space of Divine Transcendence in the Face of Hopelessness and Dislocation”, Horizons in Biblical Theology 41.2 (2019): 209-223.
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