John M.G. Barclay (M / Britain, 1958), scholar
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John M.G. Barclay (b.1958) is a British scholar, at Durham University, England. Professor of Divinity in the Dept. of Theology and Religion.
Books
-- 1996 --
John M.G. Barclay, Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan, 323 BCE-117 CE (Edinburgh, Scotland: T&T Clark, 1996).
- "Most studies of Jews in the period from Alexander to Trajan have concentrated almost exclusively on Jerusalem and Judea. In this book, John Barclay assembles and analyzes evidence about the Jewish communities in Egypt, Syria, Cyrenaica, Rome, and Asia. Barclay's ambitious goal is to describe, as precisely as the evidence allows, the varying levels of assimilation and antagonism between Jews and the non-Jewish communities in these areas for this 440-year period. With a concluding review of Jewish identity in the Diaspora as a whole, this book provides our first comprehensive and multi-faceted survey of Diaspora communities and Diaspora literature."
John M.G. Barclay, Diaspora. I giudei nella diaspora mediterranea da Alessandro a Traiano (323 a. C.-117 d. C.), tr. P. Bernardini (Brescia: Paideia, 2004). <Italian ed.>
-- 2007 --
John M.G. Barclay, Flavius Josephus. Against Apion (Leiden: Brill, 2007).
- English translation and commentary of Josephus' Contra Apionem. Vol.10 of Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary (2000- Mason), edited volume.
- "This is the first English commentary on Josephus' Against Apion, his apologetic treatise which rebuts Egyptian and Hellenistic slurs on the Judean people. Accompanied by a new translation, the commentary provides full analysis of the historical, literary, and rhetorical features of the treatise, and analyses its engagement with the cultural politics of the ancient world."
-- 2015 --
John M.G. Barclay, Paul and the Gift (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2015).
- "In this book esteemed Pauline scholar John Barclay presents a strikingly fresh reading of grace in Paul's theology, studying it in view of ancient notions of "gift" and shining new light on Paul's relationship to Second Temple Judaism ... Paul and the Gift centers on divine gift-giving, which for Paul, Barclay says, is focused and fulfilled in the gift of Christ. He offers a new appraisal of Paul's theology of the Christ-event as gift as it comes to expression in Galatians and Romans, and he presents a nuanced and detailed discussion of the history of reception of Paul. This exegetically responsible, theologically informed, hermeneutically useful book shows that a respectful, though not uncritical, reading of Paul contains resources that remain important for Christians today."
- Contents : I. THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF GIFT AND GRACE : -- The Anthropology and History of the Gift -- The Perfections of Gift/Grace -- Interpreting Paul on Grace: Shifting Patterns of Perfection -- II. DIVINE GIFT IN SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM : -- The Wisdom of Solomon -- Philo of Alexandria -- The Qumran Hodayot -- Pseudo-Philo, Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum -- 4 Ezra -- The Diverse Dynamics of Grace in Second Temple Judaism -- III. GALATIANS: THE CHRIST-GIFT AND THE RECALIBRATION OF WORTH : -- Configuring Galatians -- The Christ-Gift and the Recalibration of Norms (Galatians 1-2) -- The Christ-Gift, the Law, and the Promise (Galatians 3:1-5:12, with 6:11-18) -- The New Community as the Expression of the Gift (Galatians 5:13-6:10) -- IV. ROMANS: ISRAEL, THE GENTILES, AND GOD'S CREATIVE GIFT : -- The Creative Gift and Its Fitting Result (Romans 1:1-5:11) -- New Life in Dying Bodies: Grace and the Construction of a Christian Habitus (Romans 5:12-8:39; 12:1-15:13) -- Israel, Christ, and the Creative Mercy of God (Romans 9-11).
-- 2020 --
John M.G. Barclay, Paul & the Power of God (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2020).
- "Paul and the Gift transformed the landscape of Pauline studies upon its publication in 2015. In it, John Barclay led readers through a recontextualized analysis of grace and interrogated Paul’s original meaning in declaring it a “free gift” from God, revealing grace as a multifaceted concept that is socially radical and unconditioned—even if not unconditional ... Paul and the Power of Grace offers all of the most significant contributions from Paul and the Gift in a package several hundred pages shorter and more accessible. Additionally, Barclay adds further analysis of the theme of gift and grace in Paul’s other letters—besides just Romans and Galatians—and explores contemporary implications for this new view of grace."
Edited volumes
1996
1998
- Frequently Asked Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Glasgow 1998)