William R. Farmer

Published Works

[Revised, February 1, 1999]

Books: Authored, Co-authored or Edited:

MACCABEES, ZEALOTS AND JOSEPHUS, An Enquiry into Jewish Nationalism in the Greco-Roman Period, Columbia University Press, 1956. Reprinted 1973 Columbia University Press, 1956. Reprinted 1973 by Greenwood Press. (Author)

 THE GREAT ROMAN JEWISH WAR: AD 66-70, The William Whiston Translation as Revised by D. S. Margoliouth. Edited, with and Introduction by William R. Farmer, including "The Life of Josephus." Harper Torchbooks, 1960.

 THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM, Macmillan, 1964. Reprinted 1976 by Western North Carolina Press. (Author)

 CHRISTIAN HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION, Cambridge University Press, 1967. Ed. William R. Farmer, C.F.D. Moule and R.R. Niebuhr. A volume of essays in honor of John Knox. (Joint editor and contributor)

 SYNOPTICON, The Verbal Agreement between the Greek Texts of Matthew, Mark and Luke Contextually Exhibited, Cambridge University Press, 1969. (Author and editor)

 THE LAST TWELVE VERSES OF MARK, Cambridge University Press, 1974. (Author)

 OCCASIONAL NOTES ON SOME POINTS OF INTEREST IN NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, Mercer University Press, 1980. [Booklet] (Author)

 JESUS AND THE GOSPEL: TRADITION, SCRIPTURE, AND CANON, Fortress Press, 1982. (Author)

 NEW SYNOPTIC STUDIES: THE CAMBRIDGE GOSPEL CONFERENCE AND BEYOND, Mercer University Press, Fall, 1983. (Editor and contributor)

 THE FORMATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON, Paulist Press, 1983. (Co-author with Denis Farkasfalvy)

 MARK AS COMPOSER, New Gospel Studies 1, David Barrett Peabody, Mercer University Press, 1987. (Series editor with Foreword)

 THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM, A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1716-1988, New Gospel Studies 4, compiled and edited by Thomas Richmond Willis Longstaff and Page A. Thomas, Mercer University Press, 1988. (Series editor with Foreword)

 PETER AND PAUL AND THE CHURCH OF ROME: AN ECUMENICAL POTENTIAL OF A FORGOTTEN PERSPECTIVE, Paulist Press, 1990. (Co-author with Roch Kereszty)

 THE INFLUENCE OF THE GOSPEL OF SAINT MATTHEW ON CHRISTIAN LITERATURE BEFORE SAINT IRENAEUS, New Gospel Studies 5/1, 5/2, 5/3, Édouard Massaux, trans. Norman J. Belval and Suzanne Hecht, ed. Arthur J. Bellinzoni, Mercer University Press, 1991, 1992, 1993. (Series editor)

 ONE LOAF, ONE CUP. ECUMENICAL STUDIES OF I COR 11 AND OTHER EUCHARISTIC TEXTS, New Gospel Studies 6, ed. Ben Meyer, Mercer University Press, 1993. (Series editor)

 A HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF THE ORIGIN OF THE MARCAN HYPOTHESIS, 1835-1866. A CONTEMPORARY REPORT REDISCOVERED, New Gospel Studies 8, trans., ed., and intro. John J. Kiwiet, Mercer University Press, 1993. (Series editor)

 THE GOSPEL OF JESUS: THE PASTORAL RELEVANCE OF THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994 (Author.)

 ARGUMENTS FROM ORDER IN SYNOPTIC SOURCE CRITICISM, New Gospel Studies 7, by David Neville, 1994. (Series Editor)

 Biblical Studies and the Shifting of Paradigms, 1850-1914, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995. (Co-editor with Henning Graf Reventlow)

 CRISIS IN CHRISTOLOGY, ESSAYS IN QUEST OF RESOLUTION, Truth Inc., 1995. (Editor and contributor)

 JESUS’ DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE, New Gospel Studies 9, Allan J. McNicol, Mercer University Press, 1996. (Series editor with Foreword)

 JESUS AND THE SUFFERING SERVANT: ISAIAH 53 AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS, Trinity Press International, 1998 (Co-editor with William H. Bellinger, Jr.)

THE INTERNATIONAL BIBLE COMMENTARY: A CATHOLIC AND ECUMENICAL COMMENTARY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, The Liturgical Press, 1998. (Editor and contributor)

Contributions to Books: Essays, Articles, and Prefaces:

"Josephus and the Axial Age of History," THE GREAT ROMAN-JEWISH WAR, Harper Torch Book edition, 1960.

"The Geography of Ezekiel’s River of Life," THE BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGIST READER, edited by David Noel Freedman and G. Ernest Wright, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1961.

"John the Baptist," "Essenes," "Pre-existence of Souls," and "Zealots" in INTERPRETERS DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, 1962.

"Herod the Great," in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA, n.d.

"The Provenance of Matthew," in THE TEACHER’S YOKE: STUDIES IN MEMORY OF HENRY TRANTHAM, Baylor University Press, 1964.

"The Problem of Christian Origins: A Programmatic Essay," STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, in honor of Kenneth W. Clark, Studies and Documents XXIX, University of Utah Press, 1967.

"An Historical Essay on the Humanity of Jesus Christ," CHRISTIAN HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION, Cambridge University Press, 1967, Studies presented to John Knox.

"Stewardship and the Gospels," THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR STEWARDSHIP, Board of Lay Activities, Methodist Church, 1967, pp. 38-48.

"The Gospel of Mark," JESUS AND MAN’S HOPE, Vol. II, pp. 343-344, 1970.

"A Fresh Approach to ‘Q’," CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM AND OTHER GRECO-ROMAN CULTS, STUDIES FOR MORTON SMITH, Part One: New Testament, pp. 39-50, Brill, 1975.

"Abba," "Chreia," "Teaching of Jesus," INTERPRETERS DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, Supplementary volume, 1976.

"Introduction" to HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF THE MARCAN HYPOTHESIS, by Hans-Herbert Stoldt, translated and edited by Donald L. Niewyk, Mercer University Press, 1977, pp. xi-xviii.

"Basic Affirmation with Some Demurrals; A Response to Roland Frye" in THE RELATIONSHIPS OF THE GOSPELS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE Trinity University Press, 1978.

"The Genesis of the Colloquium," J.J. GRIESBACH: SYNOPTIC AND TEXT-CRITICAL STUDIES 1776-1976, Cambridge University Press, 1978, pp. 1-4.

"Who Are the ‘Tax Collectors and Sinners’ in the Synoptic Tradition?," in FROM FAITH TO FAITH, Essays in honor of Donald Miller, Pickwick Press, 1979.

"Peter and Paul: A Constitutive Relationship for Catholic Christianity," TEXTS AND TESTAMENTS: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE BIBLE AND EARLY CHURCH FATHERS, Trinity University Press, 1980, pp. 219-236.

"Introduction" to and editor of Part II, "Seminar on the Synoptic Problem, COLLOQUY ON NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, edited by Bruce C. Corley, Mercer University Press, 1983, pp. 29-194.

"Introduction" to NEW SYNOPTIC STUDIES, Mercer University Press, 1983, pp. vii-xli.

"The Patristic Evidence Re-examined: A Response to George Kennedy," NEW SYNOPTIC STUDIES, Mercer University Press, 1983, pp. 3-15.

"Appendix: A Response to Joseph Fitzmyer’s Defense of the Two-Document Hypothesis," NEW SYNOPTIC STUDIES, Mercer University Press, 1985, pp. 501-523.

"Is Streeter’s Fundamental Solution to the Synoptic Problem Still Valid?" THE NEW TESTAMENT AGE: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF BO REICKE, Vol. I, ed. William C. Weinrich, Mercer University Press, 1984, pp. 147-164.

"Certain Results Reached by Sir John C. Hawkins and C.F. Burney Which Make More Sense if Luke Knew Matthew, and Mark Knew Matthew and Luke," SYNOPTIC STUDIES: THE AMPLEFORTH CONFERENCES OF 1982 AND 1983, ed. C.M. Tuckett, JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, Supplement Series 7, 1984, pp. 75-98.

"Reply to Michael Goulder," SYNOPTIC STUDIES, THE AMPLEFORTH CONFERENCES OF 1982 AND 1983, ed. C.M. Tuckett, JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, Supplement Series 7, 1984, pp. 105-109.

"A New Introduction to the Problem," reprinted from THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS, 2d. ed., Mercer University Press, 1976, pp. 199-232, in THE TWO-SOURCE HYPOTHESIS: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL, ed. Arthur J. Bellinzoni, Jr., Mercer University Press, 1985, pp. 163-197.

"A Fresh Approach to ‘Q’," reprinted from CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM, AND OTHER GRECO-ROMAN CULTS: STUDIES FOR MORTON SMITH AT SIXTY, ed. Jacob Neusner, Part One: New Testament, Brill, 1975, pp. 39-50, in THE TWO-SOURCE HYPOTHESIS: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL, ed. Arthur J. Bellinzoni, Jr., Mercer University Press, 1985, pp. 397-408.

"Series Editor’s ‘Foreword’," MARK AS COMPOSER, New Gospel Studies 1, David B. Peabody, Mercer University Press, 1987, pp. ix-xiv.

"Series Editor’s ‘Foreword’," THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1716-1988, New Gospel Studies 4, compiled and edited by Thomas Richmond Willis Longstaff and Page A. Thomas. William R. Farmer, series editor, Mercer University Press, 1988, pp. vii-xii.

"The Two-Gospel Hypothesis: The Statement of the Hypothesis," in THE INTERRELATIONS OF THE GOSPELS, ed. David L. Dungan, Peeters, 1990, pp. 125-156.

"State Interesse and Marcan Primacy 1870-1914," THE FOUR GOSPELS 1992: FESTSCHRIFT FRANS NEIRYNCK, eds. F. Van Segbroeck, C.M. Tuckett, G. Van Belle, J. Verheyden, Leuven University Press, 1992, pp. 2477-2498.

"John Knox," DICTIONARY FOR BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION, Abingdon, n.d.

"Peter and Paul and the Tradition Concerning ‘the Lord’s Supper’ in 1 Cor. 11:23-26," ONE LOAF, ONE CUP. ECUMENICAL STUDIES OF 1 COR 11 AND OTHER EUCHARISTIC TEXTS, New Gospel Studies 6, ed. Ben Meyer, Mercer University Press, 1993, pp. 35-55.

"Series Editor’s ‘Foreword’," A HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF THE ORIGIN OF THE MARCAN HYPOTHESIS, 1835-1870. A CONTEMPORARY REPORT REDISCOVERED, New Gospel Studies 8, Hado Uden Meijboom, trans., ed., and intro. by John J. Kiwiet, Mercer University Press, 1993, pp. xvii-ix.

"The Minor Agreements of Matthew and Luke Against Mark and the Two Gospel Hypothesis," in MINOR AGREEMENTS, GÖTTINGER THEOLOGISCHE ARBEITEN #50, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1993.

"The Role of Isaiah in the Development of the Christian Canon," in UNCOVERING ANCIENT STONES: FESTSCHRIFT H. NEIL RICHARDSON, Eisenbrauns, 1994.

"State Interesse and Marcan Primacy: 1870-1914," in Biblical Studies and the Shifting of ParadigmS, 1850-1914, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

"The Historical Perimeters for Understanding the Aims of Jesus," CRISIS IN CHRISTOLOGY: ESSAYS IN QUEST OF RESOLUTION, Truth Inc., 1995.

"Preface," BEYOND THE Q IMPASSE: LUKE’S USE OF MATTHEW. A Demonstration by the Research Team of the International Institute for Gospel Studies, Trinity Press International, 1996.

"Further Reflections on the Fourfold Gospel Canon," in THE EARLY CHURCH IN ITS CONTEXT: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF EVERETT FERGUSON, ed. by Abraham J. Malherbe, et al, Brill, 1998.

"Reflections on Isaiah 53 and Christian Origins," JESUS AND THE SUFFERING SERVANT: ISAIAH 53 AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS, Trinity Press International, 1998.

"The Historic Jesus: God’s Call to Freedom Through Love," The International Bible Commentary, The Liturgical Press, 1998.

"The Church’s Gospel Canon: Why Four and No More," The International Bible Commentary, The Liturgical Press, 1998.

"Reflections upon 'The Historical Perimeters for Understanding the Aims of Jesus,'" AUTHENTICATING THE ACTIVITIES OF JESUS, edited by Bruce Chilton and Craig A.h Evans in the series, New Testament Tools and Studies, edited by Bruce M. Metzger, vol. XXVII, 2, Brill, 1999, pp. 59-81.

Journals and Articles:

"Christianity, Communism and War," UNION SEMINARY QUARTERLY REVIEW, May 1950, pp. 25-31.

"The Patriarch Phineas," ANGLICAN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW, January 1952, pp. 26-30.

"The Palm Branches in John 12:13," JOURNAL OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, April 1952, pp. 62-66.

"The RSV Arrives in Coatesville," UNION SEMINARY QUARTERLY REVIEW, March 1953, pp. 16-20.

"The Economic Basis of the Qumran Community," THEOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, July-August 1955, pp. 295, 308.

"Cynicism and the Gospel," DREW GATEWAY, Autumn-Winter 1955-6, pp. 14-21. Reprinted as "Cynicism and the Revival," in CHRISTIANITY AND CRISES, April 2, 1956, pp. 35-38.

"A Postscript to ‘The Economic Basis of the Qumran Community’," THEOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, January-February 1956, pp. 56-58.

"The Geography of Ezekiel’s River of Life," BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST, February 1956, pp. 17-22. Reprinted in BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST READER, Doubleday, 1961, pp. 284-289.

"The Teacher of Righteousness and Jesus the Christ," DREW GATEWAY, Summer 1956, pp. 183-194.

"Soundings at Khirbet Wadi Ez-Zaraniq," BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH, October 1957, pp. 34-36.

"Judas, Simon and Athronges," NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, January 1958, pp. 147-155.

"The Kerygmatic Theology and the Question of the Historical Jesus," RELIGION IN LIFE (with Norman Perrin), Winter, 1959-60, pp. 86-97.

"On the New Interest in Jesus," PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY JOURNAL, Fall 1960, pp. 5-10.

"A ‘Skeleton in the Closet’ of Gospel Research," BIBLICAL RESEARCH, VI, 1961, pp. 18-42.

"Notes on a Literary and Form-Critical Analysis of Some of the Synoptic Material Peculiar to Luke," NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, July 1962, pp. 301-316.

"The Synoptic Problem and the Contemporary Theological Chaos," CHRISTIAN CENTURY, October 5, 1966, pp. 1204-1206.

"The Two Document Hypothesis as a Methodological Criterion in Synoptic Research," ANGLICAN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW, October 1966, pp. 380-396.

"The Lachmann Fallacy," NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, April 1968, pp. 441-443.

"The Revolutionary Character of Jesus and the Christian Revolutionary Role in American Society," PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY JOURNAL, Spring 1969, pp. 21-31.

"The Dynamic of Christianity--The Question of Development Between Jesus and Paul," RELIGION IN LIFE, Winter 1969, pp. 570-577.

"The Resurrection of Jesus Christ," RELIGION IN LIFE, Autumn 1970, pp. 365-370.

"Redaction Criticism and the Synoptic Problem," SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE PROCEEDINGS, 1971.

"How Material Common to Matthew and Luke is Viewed on the Griesbach Hypothesis: Prolegomenon to Further Discussion," SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE PROCEEDINGS, 1971.

"A Response to Robert Morgenthaler’s STATISCHE SYNOPSE," BIBLICA, Vol. 54, Fasc. 3, 1973.

"Jesus and the Gospels: A Form-Critical and Theological Essay," PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY JOURNAL, Winter 1975, pp. 1-62.

"Matthew and the Bible: An Essay in Canonical Criticism," LEXINGTON THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, April 1976.

"The Post Sectarian Character of Matthew and its Post-War Setting in Syria," PERSPECTIVES IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES, Fall 1976.

"Symposium on Biblical Criticism," THEOLOGY TODAY, January 1977.

"Modern Developments of Griesbach’s Hypothesis," NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, April 1977.

"Kritik der Markushypothese," THEOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, May-June 1978.

"The Present State of the Synoptic Problem," PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY JOURNAL, Fall 1978, pp. 1-7.

"The Theological Task and the Historical Jesus," BANGALORE THEOLOGICAL FORUM, Vol. XI, No. 1, 1979, pp. 36-64.

"Reply to Christopher Duraisingh," BANGALORE THEOLOGICAL FORUM, Vol. XI, No. 1, 1979, pp. 70-77.

"Guest Editor’s ‘Preface’" to PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY JOURNAL, Summer 1980. Theme: "A Time for Reappraisal and Fresh Approaches."

"The Synoptic Problem: The Inadequacies of the Generally Held View," PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY JOURNAL, Summer 1980.

"The Stoldt-Conzelmann Controversy," PERSPECTIVES IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES, Summer 1980.

"Notes on the Ideological Background of the Marcan Hypothesis," OCCASIONAL NOTES ON SOME POINTS OF INTEREST IN NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, 1980, pp. 1-6.

"Notes for a Compositional Analysis on the Griesbach Hypothesis of the Empty Tomb Stories in the Synoptic Gospels," OCCASIONAL NOTES ON SOME POINTS OF INTEREST IN NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, 1980, pp. 7-14.

"A Note on J.N. Birdsall’s Review of THE LAST TWELVE VERSES OF MARK in THE JOURNAL OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, April 1975, OCCASIONAL NOTES ON SOME POINTS OF INTEREST IN NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, 1980, pp. 15-20.

"Critical Reflections on Werner Georg Kümmel's HISTORY OF NEW TESTAMENT RESEARCH," OCCASIONAL NOTES ON SOME POINTS OF INTEREST IN NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, 1980, pp. 21-30; also published in the PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY JOURNAL, Fall 1980, pp. 41-48.

"Is Mark Really the First Gospel?," CIRCUIT RIDER, October 1981, pp. 6-7.

"The Import of the Two Gospel Hypothesis," CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, Vol. 48, No. 1, January 1984, pp. 55-59.

"‘Timeless Truth’ and ‘Apostolic Faith’," PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY JOURNAL, Spring 1984, pp. 7-11.

"A Popularization of Josephus," a major book review of JOSEPHUS: THE JEWISH WAR by Gaalyah Cornfield, Zondervan, 1982, INTERPRETATION, July 1984, pp. 306-308.

"Albert C. Outler," THE SECOND CENTURY: A JOURNAL OF EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES, Fall 1984, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 131-132.

"Galatians and the Second Century Development of the REGULA FIDEI," THE SECOND CENTURY: A JOURNAL OF EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES, Fall 1984, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 143-170.

"A Statement on Sanctuary," PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY JOURNAL, Spring, 1985.

"Some Critical Reflections on Second Peter: A Response to a Paper on Second Peter by Denis Farkasfalvy," THE SECOND CENTURY: A JOURNAL OF EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES, Spring 1985/1986, pp. 30-46.

"‘Q’: State of the Question," BIBLE AND THEOLOGY, Korean translation by Lee Jong-Yun, Vol. 3, May 1986, pp. 202-220.

"The Church’s Stake in the Question of ‘Q’," PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY JOURNAL, July 1986, pp. 1-19.

"The Sermon on the Mount: A Form-Critical and Redactional Analysis of Matthew 5:1-7:29," in SBLSP 1986, pp. 56-87.

"Luke’s Use of Matthew: A Christological Inquiry," PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY JOURNAL, April 1987, pp. 39-50.

"Guest Editor’s ‘Preface: Order Out of Chaos’," PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY JOURNAL, July 1987, pp. 1-6.

"Peter and Paul and the Tradition Concerning ‘the Lord’s Supper’ in I Cor. 11:23-26," CTR, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 1987, pp. 110-140.

"Source Criticism: Some Comments on the Present Situation," USQR, Vol. 42, Nos. 1 and 2, 1988, pp. 49-57.

"The Passion Prediction Passages and the Synoptic Problem: A Test Case," NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, Vol. 36, 1990, pp. 558-570.

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