Publications

Dr. Byron enjoys writing on a variety of topics for both the academy and the church. Books can be purchased on Amazon while some articles and essays can be read online by clicking the highlighted titles.

Books

• Slavery Metaphors in Early Judaism and Pauline Christianity
  Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament; 2. Reihe 162. (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003).
• Recent Research on Paul and Slavery
  (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008).
• Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition: Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the First Sibling Rivalry
  (Themes in Biblical Narrative 14; Leiden: Brill, 2011).
• 1 & 2 Thessalonian in the Story of God
  Bible Commentary Series (Zondervan, 2014).
• A Week in the Life of a Slave
  (InterVarsity Press, 2019).
• The Apostles' Creed: A Commentary
  (Smyth & Helwys) Projected completion in 2025.

Edited Volumes

• I (Still) Believe: Biblical Scholars share their stories with thoughts on faith and scholarship
  edited by John Byron and Joel M. Lohr (Zondervan, 2015).

Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals

• "Slave of Christ or Willing Servant? Paul's Self-Description in 1 Corinthians 4.1–2 and 9.16–18,"
  Neotestamentica: 37.2 (2003): 1-20.
• "Noble Lineage as a Response to Enslavement in the Testament of Naphtali 1.9–12,"
  Journal of Jewish Studies: 55.1 (2004): 45-57.
• "Paul and the Background of Slavery: The Status Quaestioinis in New Testament Scholarship,"
  Currents in Biblical Research: 3.1 (2004): 121-145.
• "Living in the Shadow of Cain: Echoes of a Developing Tradition in James 5.1-6,"
  Novum Testamentum: 48.3 (2006): 261-274.
• "Slaughter, Fratricide and Sacrilege: Cain and Abel Traditions in 1 John 3,"
  Biblica 88 (2007): 526-535.
• "Slaves and Freed Persons: Self-Made Success and Social Climbing in the Corinthian Congregation,"
  Jian Dao 29 (2008), 91-107.
• "Cain's Rejected Offering: Interpretive Approaches to a Theological Problem,"
  Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 18 (2008): 3-23.
• "Childlessness and Ambiguity in the Ancient World,"
  Proceedings: Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society & Midwest Region Society of Biblical Literature 30 (2010): 17-46.
• "Righteous Abel and the Cry for Vengeance,"
  Catholic Biblical Quarterly 73 (2011): 743-756.
• "Who Killed Cain? Interpretive Solutions to a Theological Problem,"
  Biblical Reception 3 (2014): 96-111.
• "The Legacy of Cain in Pop and Rock Music,"
  in Canadian American Theological Review 8 (2019): 55-66.

Contributions to Edited Volumes

• Three Entries in Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction. Resources for Biblical Study series edited by Mark Roncace and Patrick Gray (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005), 336-338; 356-358; 406-407.
• Four Articles (LOSE, LOST, vol. 3:700; SERVANT; SERVE, TO, vol. 5:192; SOW, SOWER vol. 5: 360-61) in the New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon Press, 2007).
• "The Epistle to Philemon: Paul's strategy for forging the ties of kinship" pp. 205-216 in Jesus and Paul: Global Perspectives in Honor of James D.G. Dunn for his 70th Birthday. (LNTS; T&ampT Clark, 2009).
• "Cain and Abel in Second Temple Literature" pp. 331-51 in Craig A. Evans, Joel N. Lohr, and David L. Petersen (eds.), The Book of Genesis Composition and Reception (FIOTL; Brill, 2012).
• "Acts of Violence in the Book of Acts," in L.T. Stuckenbruck (ed) Religiously Motivated Violence. (Themes in Biblical Narrative; Leiden: Brill, 2017) In Press.
• "Paul as Seer: Apocalyptic Thought in 1 Thessalonians," pp. 327-45 in L.T. Stuckenbruck and Benjamin Reynolds (eds), A Companion to Jewish Apocalyptic Thought and the New Testament. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017).
• Two Articles (EXODUS and SLAVE, SLAVERY) in L.T. Stuckenbruck and Daniel M. Gurtner (eds), T&T Clark Companion to Second Temple Judaism. (T&ampT Clark, 2019).
• Three Entries (Mark 1:14-20; 21-28, 29-39) in Green, Long, Powery and Rigby (eds), Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship (Westminster John Knox, 2019) forthcoming.
• "Charles Kingsley Barrett: Historian by Nature, Theologian by Grace," pp. 271-98 in Porter, Stanly (ed), Milestones in New Testament Scholarship (Kregel Press, 2021).
• Two Articles (LETTER TO PHILEMON; THE RESTRAINER) in The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters 2nd Edition (Intervarsity Press, 2023).

Articles in Professional Publications

• "Paul and the Python Girl (Acts 16:16-19)," Ashland Theological Journal, 41 (2009): 5-10.
• "Pastor, When's the last time you wrote a letter?" Church Leaders.com (September 2012).
• "A Tale of Two Slaves," in Biblical Archaeology Review (July/August 2013): 24, 57.
• "A Theology of Work," In The Table (Summer, 2013).
• "Did Cain Get Away with Murder?" Biblical Archaeology Review (May/June 2014): 24, 68.
• "Paul, Jesus and the Rolling Stone," Biblical Archaeology Review (September/October 2015): 26, 62.
• "Who Sinned First – Adam or Cain?" Biblical Archaeology Review (July/August 2017), 16, 62.
• "Paul, The Python Girl, and Human Trafficking" Biblical Archaeology Review (May/June, 2019), 56, 66.

Online/Software Publications

• Oxford Bibliographies Online – "Slavery in Biblical Literature" (2010).
• "Paul and Slavery" – Lexham Study Bible, Logos Bible Software (2011).
• "Rule of Faith" – Lexham Survey of Theology, Faithlife (2018).

Translations

• Lexham Greek-English Interlinear Septuagint (Judith and Sirach); Logos Software (2008).
• Common English Bible: English translation of Judith for the United Methodist Publishing House (2010).