Humanities Staff

Professor Andrew Lincoln

Position
Portland Professor of New Testament Studies

Contact
Email: alincoln@glos.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1242 714773

Andrew joined the staff in autumn 1999 as Portland Chair in New Testament Studies. Professor Lincoln has an MA and PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge and a BD from Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia.
He previously taught in Massachusetts and Nottingham, and at Universities of Sheffield and Toronto. His publications have included Paradise Now and Not Yet, (C.U.P., 1981), Ephesians (Word, 1990) and The Theology of the Later Pauline Letters (C.U.P., 1993). A commentary on Colossians in the New Interpreter’s Bible Vol. XI (Abingdon) and a book on John’s Gospel and its appropriation, entitled Truth on Trial (Hendrikson) both appeared in 2000. More recently, he has published the commentary on The Gospel according to St. John in the Black’s New Testament Commentaries series (Continuum/ Hendrikson, 2005) and Hebrews: A Guide (T. & T. Clark International, 2006). With Dr. A. Paddison he is editing the papers from a symposium on Christology and Scripture to be published in 2007. Professor Lincoln has successfully supervised 23 PhDs and is interested in literary, historical and theological approaches to the New Testament and in the interplay among such approaches.

Books
Paradise Now and Not Yet : Studies in the Role of the Heavenly Dimension in Paul?s Thought with Special Reference to his Eschatology (SNTS Monograph Series 43) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. xiii + 277.

Paradiso Ora e Non Ancora tr. A. Sacchi (Biblioteca di Cultura Religiosa 48) Brescia: Paideia Editrica, 1985

Paradise Now and Not Yet Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1991 [Paperback Reprint]

Ephesians (Word Biblical Commentary 42) Dallas, Texas: Word Books, 1990, pp. xcvii + 494.

The Theology of the Later Pauline Letters Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. xi + 185 [joint author with A. J. M. Wedderburn]

Colossians in The New Interpreter's Bible Vol. XI, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000, 551-669 (c. 70,000 words)

Truth on Trial: The Fourth Gospel's Lawsuit Motif in Narrative, History and Theology Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2000, pp. xv + 527.

The Gospel according to St. John (Black NT Commentaries) London: Continuum/ Peabody, MA.: Hendrickson, 2005, pp. ix + 584

Hebrews: A Guide London: T. & T. Clark International, 2006, pp. xi + 125

Christology and Scripture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives London: T. & T. Clark International, forthcoming 2007 (ed. with A. Paddison)

Articles in Scholarly Journals

“A Re-examination of the Heavenlies? in Ephesians,” New Testament Studies 19 (1973) 468-83

“"Paul the Visionary": The Setting and Significance of the Rapture to Paradise in 2 Corinthians 12:1-10,” New Testament Studies 25 (1979) 204-20

“The Use of the OT in Ephesians,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 14 (1982) 16-57

“Sabbath, Rest and Eschatology in the New Testament,” and “From Sabbath to Lord's Day: A Biblical and Theological Perspective,” in From Sabbath to Lord's Day: A Biblical, Historical and Theological Investigation ed. D. A. Carson, Exeter: Paternoster, 1982, 197-220, 343-412

“Ephesians 2:8-10 - A Summary of Paul's Theology?” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 45 (1983) 616-30

“Theology and History in the Interpretation of Luke's Pentecost,” Expository Times 96 (1985) 204-9

“The Church and Israel in Ephesians 2,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 49 (1987) 605-24.
Reprinted in The Best in Theology Vol. 3. Carol Stream, Illinois: CTI, 1989, 61-79

“The Promise and the Failure - Mark 16: 7,8,” Journal of Biblical Literature 108 (1989) 283-300
Reprinted in The Interpretation of Mark ed. W. Telford, Edinburgh: T.&T. Clark, 1995, 229-51

“Matthew - A Story for Teachers?” The Bible in Three Dimensions eds. D.J.A. Clines, S.E. Fowl, S. E. Porter. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1990, 103-25

“Abraham Goes To Rome: Paul's Treatment of Abraham in Romans 4,” Worship, Theology and Ministry in the Early Church (Festschrift for R.P. Martin) eds. M. J. Wilkins, T. Paige.
Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992, 163-79

“From Wrath to Justification: Tradition, Gospel and Audience in the Theology of Rom 1:18-4:25,” SBL 1993 Seminar Papers, Atlanta, GA; Scholars Press, 1993, 194-226

“Trials, Plots and the Narrative of the Fourth Gospel,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 56 (1994) 3-30.

“Stand, therefore...?: Ephesians 6:10-20 as Peroratio,” Biblical Interpretation 3 (1995) 99-114.

“Liberation from the Powers. Supernatural Spirits or Societal Structures?” The Bible in Human Society (Festschrift for J. Rogerson) eds. M. D. Carroll, R., D. J. A. Clines, P. R. Davies, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995, 335-54.

“From Wrath to Justification: The Theology of Romans 1:18-4:25,” Pauline Theology Vol. 3, eds. D.M. Hay and E. E. Johnson, Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996, 130-59.

“Pentecost,” Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments, eds. R. P. Martin and P. H. Davids, Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1997, 902-906.

Review article "Books of Interest: Postmodern Biblical Interpretation", Toronto Journal of Theology 13 (1997) 235-44.

"'I Am the Resurrection and the Life': The Resurrection Message of the Fourth Gospel", in ed. R. N. Longenecker, Life in the Face of Death: The Resurrection Message of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998) 122-44.

"John 3:16: God So Loved the World" in eds. C. Barrigar and G. LeMarquand, The True and Living Word (Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1998) 38-46.

"The Household Code and Wisdom Mode of Colossians," Journal for the Study of the New Testament 74 (1999) 93-112.

"God's Name, Jesus' Name and Prayer in the Fourth Gospel," in ed. R. N. Longenecker, Into God's Presence: Prayer in the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001) 155-80.

"The Beloved Disciple as Eyewitness and the Fourth Gospel as Witness," Journal for the Study of the New Testament 85 (2002) 11-34.

"Power, Judgment and Possession: John's Gospel in Political Perspective" in ed. C. Bartholomew, A Royal Priesthood: The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically (Carlisle: Paternoster/ Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002) 147-69.

"The Stories of Predecessors and Inheritors in Galatians and Romans" in ed. B. W. Longenecker, Narrative Dynamics of Paul's Thought (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2002) 172-203.

"Ephesians," in ed. J. D. G. Dunn, The Cambridge Companion to Paul  (Cambridge: C. U. P., 2003) 133-40.

"Reading John: The Fourth Gospel under Modern and Postmodern Interrogation" in ed. S. E. Porter, Reading the Gospels (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004) 127-49.

"Hebrews and Biblical Theology," in ed. C. Bartholomew et al. Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Milton Keynes: Paternoster/ Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004) 313-38.

"Pilgrimage and the New Testament" in ed. C. Bartholomew and F. Hughes, Explorations in a Christian Theology of Pilgrimage (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004) 29-49.

"The Lazarus Story: A Literary Perspective" in eds. R. Bauckham and C. Mosser, The Gospel of John and Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans) forthcoming.

“’We Know that His Testimony is True’: Johannine Truth Claims and Historicity” in eds. P. Anderson and T. Thatcher, Jesus, John and History (Louisville: Westminster/ John Knox) forthcoming.

“Born of a Virgin: Creedal Affirmation and Critical Reading” in eds. A. Lincoln and A. Paddison, Christology and Scripture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (London: T. & T. Clark International) forthcoming.