Monographs by Robert Matthew Calhoun
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2/316, 2011
Edited volumes by Robert Matthew Calhoun
Supplements to Novum Testamentum 190, 2023
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 472, 2021
The present volume investigates the circumstances of religious transformation in early Christiani... more The present volume investigates the circumstances of religious transformation in early Christianity and in other ancient religions – the various converts, the means by which followers attracted adherents, and the factors that influenced and limited their success.
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 451, 2020
The Gospels continue to defy efforts to fix 'generic' boundaries for determining their meanings. ... more The Gospels continue to defy efforts to fix 'generic' boundaries for determining their meanings. This volume discloses new stirrings and sightings of broader, more heuristically promising literary, rhetorical, and cultural registers which intersect in ancient narrative. The contributors seek to build upon or vigorously critique current generic hypotheses (biography, history, tragedy); to introduce recent insights and developments in genre theory; to probe ancient reception of the Gospels as works of literature; and to illuminate the relations between the literary characteristics of the Gospels and methodological advances in narratology, social memory, intertextuality, and performance.
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 440, 2020
In contrast to studies of New Testament theology that ask or assume what it is, this volume inves... more In contrast to studies of New Testament theology that ask or assume what it is, this volume investigates where it comes from. In a dialogue with Hans Dieter Betz, the contributors ask about the origins and preconditions of New Testament theology. How did it begin, both in terms of its historical stimuli and in terms of its earliest literary expressions? To what extent, if at all, did early Christians think of themselves as "doing theology"? How did early Christians come to understand their faith as an object of knowledge, and thus as theology? And, how did early Christians participate in and contribute to wider philosophical conversations about religion and what can be known about the divine in Roman antiquity?
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 340, 2014
Papers by Robert Matthew Calhoun
Paul, Christian Textuality, and the Hermeneutics of Late Antiquity: Essays in Honor of Margaret M. Mitchell (NovTSup 190), 2023
Early Christianity, 2022
In a recent monograph, Benjamin A. Edsall traces the emergence of the figure of Paul as apostolic... more In a recent monograph, Benjamin A. Edsall traces the emergence of the figure of Paul as apostolic patron of catechism and initiation from the Acts of Paul in the second century to the Apostolic Constitutions and the Euthalian Apparatus in the fourth century. This brief essay argues that 3 Corinthians likewise attests to and enhances this portrait of Paul in order to affirm the apostle's endorsement of fleshly resurrection, and the necessity of including this doctrine in the "rule" (κανών).
Early Christianity, 2020
The use of the Lord's Prayer in early Christian amulets may at first glance seem like a self-evid... more The use of the Lord's Prayer in early Christian amulets may at first glance seem like a self-evident transformation of its ordinary usages in worship and daily prayer, and intensification of its apotropaic final petitions ("and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil"). However, closer scrutiny of the artifacts featuring the Lord's Prayer on the one hand, and its ancient contexts of reception and transmission on the other, reveals a concern to engage in pious amulet-praxis informed by Christian rituals and theological perspectives. After surveying the extant artifacts from late antiquity, the study asks: Why did Christians choose the Lord's Prayer so early in the history of their amulet-praxis, with such widespread and durable influence? And what does its selection reveal about the priorities of those who first established its use, as well as those who continued to use it?
Novum Testamentum, 2019
The 26th edition of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, followed by the 27th and 28th edit... more The 26th edition of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, followed by the 27th and 28th editions, deleted a punctuation variant in Phil 2:7 noted in the 25th, which drew attention to a syntactical ambiguity in the construal of three successive participial phrases (7b–d). Resolutions of this ambiguity have significant consequences for the passage’s christological perspective. Future editions should revise and restore this variant.
Early Christianity, 2019
In spite of statements by scholars to the contrary, four important late antique patristic authors... more In spite of statements by scholars to the contrary, four important late antique patristic authors (John Chrysostom, Isidore of Pelusium, Jerome, and Augustine) do not condemn or forbid the use of Gospels as protective devices on the few occasions that the topic arises. Their attitudes toward these devices differ markedly from their general hostility toward traditional (“pagan”) amulets. Careful scrutiny of the remarks of these authors on Gospel-amulets furthermore reveals how the Gospels were thought to function protectively or therapeutically: early Christians, in an apparent re-interpretation of Rom 1:17, perceive the Gospel codex kept close to the body or in the home as “God’s power for salvation”; it provides deliverance in the here-and-now as well as in the eschatological future.
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law, ed. Brent A. Strawn, et al., 2015
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law, ed. Brent A. Strawn et al., 2015
Early Christianity 6 (2015): 67–88.
This essay examines Mark 1:16–20 in the light of Bousset's ob... more Early Christianity 6 (2015): 67–88.
This essay examines Mark 1:16–20 in the light of Bousset's observations regarding miracles in both the primitive Palestinian and Hellenistic Christian communities, in order to argue (a) that Mark's account of Jesus' calling of the first disciples differs in significant ways from ancient 'call stories,' and should be understood as describing a miracle, (b) that Luke's and John's revisions of it reveal their recognition of the call as a miracle; and (c) that the episode establishes Jesus' acquisition and utilization of a δύναμις θεοῦ: the power of the call. Mark's account evokes early Christian experiences of this miraculous power of calling, to which Paul's letters attest, and it thus functions as a 'mythical paradigm.
Novum Testamentum, Jan 1, 2006
Talks by Robert Matthew Calhoun
Dr. Matt Calhoun of Texas Christian University joins Matthew Baldwin of Mars Hill University to t... more Dr. Matt Calhoun of Texas Christian University joins Matthew Baldwin of Mars Hill University to talk about what we can learn about Jesus and the early Jesus movement by looking at the canonical Gospels.
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This essay examines Mark 1:16–20 in the light of Bousset's observations regarding miracles in both the primitive Palestinian and Hellenistic Christian communities, in order to argue (a) that Mark's account of Jesus' calling of the first disciples differs in significant ways from ancient 'call stories,' and should be understood as describing a miracle, (b) that Luke's and John's revisions of it reveal their recognition of the call as a miracle; and (c) that the episode establishes Jesus' acquisition and utilization of a δύναμις θεοῦ: the power of the call. Mark's account evokes early Christian experiences of this miraculous power of calling, to which Paul's letters attest, and it thus functions as a 'mythical paradigm.
Talks by Robert Matthew Calhoun
This essay examines Mark 1:16–20 in the light of Bousset's observations regarding miracles in both the primitive Palestinian and Hellenistic Christian communities, in order to argue (a) that Mark's account of Jesus' calling of the first disciples differs in significant ways from ancient 'call stories,' and should be understood as describing a miracle, (b) that Luke's and John's revisions of it reveal their recognition of the call as a miracle; and (c) that the episode establishes Jesus' acquisition and utilization of a δύναμις θεοῦ: the power of the call. Mark's account evokes early Christian experiences of this miraculous power of calling, to which Paul's letters attest, and it thus functions as a 'mythical paradigm.