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Academic Publications

Books

Habitats of the Basileia: Essays in Honour of Elaine M. Wainwright. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2024.

Co-edited with Caroline Blyth & Emily Colgan

Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict, Winchester: Zer0 Books, 2023.

Co-authored with James Crossley

Class Struggle in the New Testament, Lanham: Fortress Academic/Lexington Books, 2019.

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Matthew: An Introduction and Study Guide The Basileia of the Heavens is near at Hand, London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017.

Co-authored with Elaine M. Wainwright & Carlos Olivares

Sexuality, Ideology, and the Bible: Antipodean Engagements, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2015.

Co-edited with Caroline Blyth

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The Homeless Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014.

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Articles

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"Soft Clothing Hard Jesus: Toughness and Class Conflict in Q 7:24-5," Journal of Biblical Literature (accepted, forthcoming).

"Class Conflict in Galilee Under Herod Antipas," Biblische Notizen 200, 111-124, 2024.

"What Made the Jesus Movement Tick?" Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 22, 95-115, 2024. (with James Crossley)

“John the Baptist in Memory, Judaism, and Historical Materialism,” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 19, 62-73, 2021, https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455197-19010007.

“Gospel of Matthew,” in James Crossley and Alistair Lockhart (eds), Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, 2021, https://www.cdamm.org/articles/matthews-gospel.

“Crowds and Power in the Early Palestinian Tradition,” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 18, 124-140, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1163/17455197-01802003.

“On the Implausibility of Identifying the Disciple in John 18:15-16 as a Galilean Fisherman,” Novum Testamentum 61, 367-385, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341637. (with Michael Kok)

“Peeling Back the Layers of Jesus,” Biblical Interpretation 27, 235-250, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1163/15685152-00272P04.

“The Fetish for a Subversive Jesus,” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 14, 52-70, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1163/17455197-01401005.

“Winston Peters ‘Puts His Hand to the Plow’: The Bible in New Zealand Political Discourse,” Journal of the Bible and its Reception 3, 135-153, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1515/jbr-2016-1010.

“Opiate of Christ; or, John’s Gospel and the Spectre of Class,” Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds 7, 257-277, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1558/post.v7i3.28298.

“The Commodification of Biblical Texts in Advertising and Contemporary Capitalism,” The Bible and Critical Theory 10, 11-21, 2014.

“Echoes of Displacement in Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus,” Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review 45, 31-41, 2013.

“Probing the Homelessness of Jesus with Žižek’s Sublime Object,” The Bible and Critical Theory 9, 15-26, 2013.

“Terminating Samson: the Sarah Connor Chronicles and the Rise of New Biblical Meaning,” Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception 1, 329-50, 2011.

“Dandy Discipleship: A Queering of Mark’s Male Disciples,” Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality 4, 66-81, 2010. Reprinted in The Best of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, ed. Joseph Gelfer, Piscataway, Gorgias Press, 235-254, 2010.

Book Chapters

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"The Historical Jesus on Unceded Land," in Emily Colgan, Brian Fiu Kolia, and Michael Mawson (eds), Rereading the Bible in the Wake of Colonisation: To Conquer and Subdue the Earth? Routledge (forthcoming).

"Class Conflict," in Chris Keith and James Crossley (eds), The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 298-310, 2024.

“Surveillance Capitalism and the Father who Spies from Heaven: Rereading Matthew 6:1-18 with a Hermeneutics of Paranoia,” in Francisco Lozada, Jr., Amy Lindeman Allen, and Yak-hwee Tan (eds), The Critic in the World: Essays in Honor of Fernando F. Segovia, Atlanta, SBL Press, 135-161, 2024.

"Feeding 5,000 in the Slums of Bethsaida (Lk. 9.10-17)," in Robert J. Myles, Caroline Blyth, and Emily Colgan (eds), Habitats of the Basileia: Essays in Honour of Elaine M. Wainwright, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 171-183, 2024.

“The Poor,” The T&T Clark Jesus Library, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350999961.0003.

“Class Struggle in the New Testament!” in Robert J. Myles (ed), Class Struggle in the New Testament, Lanham, Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 1-14, 2019.

“Fishing for Entrepreneurs in the Sea of Galilee? Unmasking Neoliberal Ideology in Biblical Interpretation,” in Robert J. Myles (ed), Class Struggle in the New Testament, Lanham, Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 115-138, 2019.

“The Antipodean Underside of Sexuality, Ideology, and the Bible,” in Robert J. Myles and Caroline Blyth (eds), Sexuality, Ideology, and the Bible: Antipodean Engagements, Sheffield, Sheffield Phoenix Press, xi-xvi, 2015.

“Homelessness, Neoliberalism, and Jesus’ ‘Decision’ to go Rogue: An Analysis of Matt. 4:12-25,” in Bruce Worthington (ed), Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis: Political Exegesis for a New Day, Minneapolis, Fortress, 217-243, 2015.

“Biblical Literacy and The Simpsons,” in Katie B. Edwards (ed), Rethinking Biblical Literacy, London, Bloomsbury, 143-162, 2015.

©2024 by Robert Myles.

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