The Revd Professor John Barton, MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA Emeritus Oriel & Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow of Campion Hall
Main publications:
Sole-authored books
Amos’s Oracles against the Nations (Society for Old Testament Study monograph series 6), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1980.
Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study, London: Darton, Longman & Todd and Philadelphia: Westminster Press 1984. Second edition with two new chapters 1996.
Oracles of God: Perceptions of Ancient Prophecy in Israel after the Exile, London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1986 and New York: Oxford University Press 1988; second edition 2007.
People of the Book? The Authority of the Bible in Christianity, London: SPCK and Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox Press 1988. Second edition with additional chapter, 1993; Third edition, with a further additional chapter, 2010.
Love Unknown: Meditations on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, London: SPCK and Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox Press 1989. (Danish edition Ansigt til Ansigt: Meditationer over Jesu død og opstandelse, Frederiksberg: Anis 1992; Malay edition Kasih yang tak terperi: Meditasi tentang Kematian dan Kebangkitan Yesus, Jakarta: Pt BPK Gunung Mulia 1993.)
Isaiah 1-39 (Old Testament Guides), Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press 1995. (German edition Jesaja, Prophet in Jerusalem. Eine Einführung zu Themen in Jesaja 1-39, Göttingen: Edition Ruprecht 2006.)
The Spirit and the Letter: Studies in the Biblical Canon, London: SPCK 1997; American edition Holy Writings, Sacred Text, Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press 1998.
What is the Bible?, London: SPCK 1991. Second edition with additional chapter 1997. (Spanish edition Qué es la Biblia?, Bilbao: Editorial Desclée De Brouwer 2004.)
Making the Christian Bible, London: Darton, Longman & Todd 1997; American The Future of Old Testament Study (Inaugural Lecture), Oxford: Oxford University Press 1993. edition How the Bible came to be, Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press 1998.
Ethics and the Old Testament, London: SCM Press 1998. (Czech edition Etika a Stary zákon, Prague: MLYN 2006.)
Joel and Obadiah: A Commentary, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press 2001.
Understanding Old Testament Ethics, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press 2003.
Living Belief: Being Christian, Being Human, London: Continuum 2005.
The Nature of Biblical Criticism, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 2007.
The Old Testament: Canon, Literature and Theology: Collected Essays of John Barton, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
The Theology of the Book of Amos, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Ethics in Ancient Israel, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Co-authored books
J. W. Rogerson, D. Clines, J. Barton, and P. Joyce, Beginning Old Testament Study, London: SPCK 1983, second edition, St Louis: Chalice, 1998.
Robert Morgan with John Barton, Biblical Interpretation (Oxford Bible), Oxford: Oxford University Press 1988.
John Barton and Julia Bowden, The Original Story: God, Israel and the World, London: Darton, Longman & Todd 2004; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2005.
Books edited
Language, Theology, and the Bible: Essays in Honour of James Barr, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994 (with S. E. Balentine).
After the Exile: Essays in Honour of Rex Mason, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press 1996 (with D. J. Reimer).
The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. (Spanish edition La Interpetación bíblica, hoy, Santander: Editorial Sal Terrae 2001; Chinese edition 2009.)
Offenbarung und Geschichten, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000 (with Gerhard Sauter); English version Revelation and Story: Narrative Theology and the Centrality of Story, Aldershot: Ashgate 2000.
The Oxford Bible Commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001 (with John Muddiman).
The Biblical World, London: Routledge 2002, two volumes.
Apocalyptic in History and Tradition, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press 2003 (with Christopher Rowland).
Die Einheit der Schrift und die Vielfalt des Kanons/The Unity of Scripture and the Diversity of the Canon, BZNW 118, Berlin: W. de Gruyter (with M. Wolter).
Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel and Judah, London: T & T Clark International, 2010 (with Francesca Stavrakopoulou).
Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr, 3 vols., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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