Warren Carter

warren.carter@tcu.edu | 817-257-7804
Professor of New Testament

B.A., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1976
B.D., Melbourne College of Divinity, 1985
Th.M., Melbourne College of Divinity, 1986
Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1991

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) / New Zealand Baptist

Books

John and Empire: Initial Explorations
New York: T&T Clark/Continuum, 2008

The Roman Empire and the New Testament : An Essential Guide
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006

John: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist
Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers, 2006

Matthew: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist Rev. ed
Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004

Pontius Pilate: Portraits of a Roman Governor
Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2003

New Proclamation. Year A, 2001-2002
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001

Matthew and Empire : Initial Explorations
Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2001

Matthew and the Margins : A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading
Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books, 2000

Matthew's Parables : Audience-Oriented Perspectives
Washington, D.C: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1998

What are they Saying about Matthew's Sermon on the Mount?
New York: Paulist Press, 1994

Households and Discipleship : A Study of Matthew 19-20
Sheffield, England:: JSOT Press, 1994

Essays in Books

"Paul and the Roman Empire: Recent Perspectives"
Paul Unbound: Other Perspectives on the Apostle
Peabody: Hendrickson, 2010 pages 7-26

"Matthew 1-2 and Roman Political Power"
New Perspectives on the Nativity
New York: T& T Clark, 2009 pages 77-90

"Church Bible Studies, John�s Gospel, and Ancient and Modern Empires"
The Bible in the Public Square: Reading the Signs of the Times
Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008 pages 13-25

"Love as Societal Vision and Fatal Practice in Matthew 22:34-40"
Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels Vol 2: The Gospel of Matthew
New York: T& T Clark, 2008 pages 30-44

"Matthew�s Gospel, Rome�s Empire, and the Parable of the Mustard Seed (Matt 13:31-32)"
Hermeneutik der Gleichnisse Jesus
WUNT 231; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008 pages 181-201

"Matthew Negotiates the Roman Empire"
The Bible in the Shadow of Empire
Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008 pages 117-36

"The Gospel of Matthew"
A Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament
Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007 pages 69-104

"Matthew�s Gospel: Jewish Christianity or Christian Judaism, or Neither?"
Jewish Christianity Reconsidered
Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007 pages 155-179

"Power and Identities: The Contexts of Matthew�s Sermon on the Mount"
Preaching the Sermon on the Mount: The World That It Imagines
St. Louis: Chalice, 2007 pages 8-21

"Embodying God�s Empire in Communal Practices: Matthew 6:1-18"
Preaching the Sermon on the Mount: The World That It Imagines
St. Louis: Chalice, 2007 pages 22-35

"Matthean Christology in Roman Imperial Key: Matthew 1:1"
The Gospel of Matthew in its Roman Imperial Context
London: T&T Clark, 2005 pages 143-165

"Matthew's People"
Christian Origins
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005 pages 149-158

"Lecture Impérialiste"
Guide des nouvelles lectures de la Bible
Paris: Bayard Presse, 2005 pages 273-305

"James C. Scott and New Testament Studies: A Response to Allen Callahan, William Herzog, and Richard Horsley"
Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004 pages 259-282

"Vulnerable Power: The Roman Empire Challenged by the Early Christians"
Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches
New York: AltaMira Press, 2002 pages 45-59

"Anti-Judaism and the Gospel of Matthew: Response to Amy-Jill Levine"
Anti-Judaism and the Gospels
Harrisburg, Pa: Trinity Press International, 1999 pages 56-67

Journal Articles

"Accommodating 'Jezebel' and Withdrawing John: Negotiating Empire in Revelation Then and Now"
Interpretation 63 2009 pages 32-47

"'Love Your Enemies' Luke 6:27, 35; Matt 5:43"
Word and World 2008 pages 13-21

"Currents in Theology and Mission"
Matthew's Gospel: Imperial/Anti-Imperial Readings 2007 pages

"Proclaiming (in/against) Empire then and Now"
Word & World 25 2005 pages 81-94

"Union Seminary Quarterly Review 59"
Matthew and Empire 2005 pages 86-92

"Matthew and the Gentiles: Individual Conversion and/or Systemic Transformation?"
Journal for the Study of the New Testament 26 2004 pages 198-208

"Lectionary Study"
Quarterly Review 23 2003 pages 36-40

"Resisting and Imitating the Empire: Imperial Paradigms in Two Matthean Parables"
Interpretation 56 2002 pages 453-488

"The Magi and the Star We Follow"
Other Side 38 2002 pages 260-272

"Adult Children and Elderly Parents: The Worlds of the New Testament"
Journal of Religious Gerontology 12 2001 pages 503-520

"'To Save His People from their Sins' (Matt 1:21): Rome's Empire and Matthew's Salvation as Sovereignty"
Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 2000 pages 47-62

"Matthew 23:37-39"
Interpretation 54 2000 pages 379-401

"Evoking Isaiah: Matthean Soteriology and an Intertextual Reading of Isaiah 7-9 and Matthew 1:23 and 4:15-16"
Journal of Biblical Literature 119 2000 pages 66-68

"Contested Claims : Roman Imperial Theology and Matthew's Gospel"
Biblical Theology Bulletin 29 1999 pages 3-31

"Paying the Tax to Rome as Subversive Praxis : Matthew 17.24-27"
Journal for the Study of the New Testament 1999 pages 44-62

"Jesus' 'I have Come' Statements in Matthew's Gospel"
Catholic Biblical Quarterly 60 1998 pages

"Toward an Imperial-Critical Reading of Matthew's Gospel"
Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 1998 pages 296-324

"Journal for the Study of the New Testament"
Narrative/Literary Approaches to Matthean Theology : The 'Reign of the Heavens' as an Example (Mt 4.17-5.12) 1997 pages 3-27

"'Solomon in all His Glory' : Intertextuality and Matthew 6.29"
Journal for the Study of the New Testament 1997 pages 3-25

"Catholic Biblical Quarterly 59"
Matthew 4:18-22 and Matthean Discipleship : An Audience-Oriented Perspective 1997 pages 58-75

"Quarterly Review 17"
Gospel Lections for Advent and Christmas Eve 1997 pages 287-305

"Catholic Biblical Quarterly 58"
Getting Martha Out of the Kitchen : Luke 10:38-42 1996 pages 264-280

"Quarterly Review 16"
The Gospel Lections for Advent : Some Unseasonal Thoughts 1996 pages 283-290

"Currents in Research 4"
Some Contemporary Scholarship on the Sermon on the Mount 1996 pages 183-215

"Expository Times 107"
'To See the Tomb' : Matthew's Women at the Tomb 1996 pages 201-205

"Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers"
Challenging by Confirming, Renewing by Repeating : The Parables of 'the Reign of the Heavens' in Matthew 13 as Embedded Narratives 1995 pages 399-424

"Catholic Biblical Quarterly"
Recalling the Lord's Prayer : The Authorial Audience and Matthew's Prayer as Familiar Liturgical Experience 1995 pages 514-530

"Journal of Religious Gerontology 9"
A Survey of Recent Scholarship on the New Testament and Aging and Suggestions for Future Research 1995 pages 35-50

"Catholic Biblical Quarterly 55"
The Crowds in Matthew's Gospel 1993 pages 54-67

"Catholic Biblical Quarterly 54"
Kernels and Narrative Blocks : The Structure of Matthew's Gospel 1992 pages 463-481

"Journal for the Study of the New Testament"
The Prologue and John's Gospel : Function, Symbol and the Definitive Word 1990 pages 35-58

"Koinonia 1"
The Earliest Christian Movement : Sectarian, Itinerant, Or Liminal Existence? 1989 pages 91-109

"Biblica 69"
Zechariah and the Benedictus (Luke 1:68-79) : Practicing what He Preaches 1988 pages 239-247