Books by John Anthony Dunne
In his letter to the Galatians, Paul writes that his Gentile audience should not illegitimately a... more In his letter to the Galatians, Paul writes that his Gentile audience should not illegitimately appropriate Jewish customs, especially circumcision. As a way to understand why Paul deems circumcision in this context to be so egregious, being a matter of apostasy rather than simply an adiaphoron, John Anthony Dunne argues that the themes of suffering and persecution point to the coercive nature of the conflict in Galatia. What is at stake for Paul is allegiance to the crucified Christ. Due to the realities inaugurated by the Christ-event and the implications of participating in the Messiah's death and resurrection, suffering for the sake of the cross is to be endured instead of succumbing to the compulsion to be circumcised. Suffering persecution, rather than receiving circumcision, demarcates the true people of God who are set apart in Christ for future blessing and vindication.
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Theology and Black Mirror (ed. Amber Bowen and John Anthony Dunne), 2022
Black Mirror, Netflix's dystopian anthology, probes what it means to be human in a technological ... more Black Mirror, Netflix's dystopian anthology, probes what it means to be human in a technological world. While the show raises interesting, if not disturbing, question, it refrains from giving answers, putting the onus on viewers to continue the conversation. Accordingly, Theology and Black Mirror engages questions and prominent themes in Black Mirror with resources from the Christian tradition, including the academic disciplines of biblical studies, theology, philosophy, and ethics.
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One God, One People, One Future: Essays in Honor of N. T. Wright, ed. John Anthony Dunne and Eric Lewellen. London: SPCK / Minneapolis: Fortress, 2018
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The authors of this volume explore various instances of theo-political visions of authoritative t... more The authors of this volume explore various instances of theo-political visions of authoritative texts in Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism, and Early Christianity, and as such offer a broader perspective on the topos “sacred texts in their context.” Instead of a narrow exploration of the “political intent” of a singular text or group of texts, the volume contains the treatment of a wide range of texts, out of different corpora, with their discrete contexts. Their juxtaposition, as well as that of the respective scholarly approaches of the essays, offers fresh insights on the matter. Each of the essays in the collection addresses the issue of oppressive imperial ideology and the extent to which the authors of sacred texts engaged their political contexts, and eight of the essays specifically present reactions to the Roman Empire.
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Articles & Chapters by John Anthony Dunne
Journal of Biblical Literature, 2024
This essay traces one particular way that the passion tradition of mixed/sour wine offered to Jes... more This essay traces one particular way that the passion tradition of mixed/sour wine offered to Jesus developed in extracanonical gospels, broader New Testament Apocrypha, Tatian’s Diatessaron, and other early Christian writings. Notably, the divergent details of these offerings in the passion narratives of the four canonical gospels were often simplified out of a growing awareness of an allusion to Ps 69:22 (68:22 LXX) with its reference to gall and sour wine. The early Christian tradition comes to be stabilized as a single offering of sour wine and gall, even though that pairing does not appear in the canonical gospels. Further evidence that early Christians used Ps 69 to simplify the various traditions is seen from the way they also drew upon the imprecations from the broader context of the psalm for polemical leverage against the Jews. This hermeneutical and apologetic trajectory developed despite the fact that (a) the gospels show varying degrees of awareness of the psalm in their respective passion accounts, and (b) the gospels do not indict anyone making the offer, except for Luke (implicitly), when the Roman soldiers do so mockingly.
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Journal of Gods and Monsters 4.1, 2024
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Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 2023
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Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2023
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Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (Second Edition), 2023
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Human Flourishing, 2020
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Didaktikos: Journal of Theological Education, 2020
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Didaktikos: Journal of Theological Education, 2021
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Theology and Black Mirror, 2022
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