Brian S. Rosner

Academic background and interests

Present Position

2003-

Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Ethics, Moore College

Qualifications

1981

B.A. Honours (Sydney)

1988

ThM (Dallas)

1991

PhD (Cambridge)

Previous Experience

1982 – 1983

Staff Worker/Campus Director, Student Life, University of Sydney

1983 –1984

Clerk, Hospital Contribution Fund

1986

Lecturer (Psalms) at the International School of Theology Extension

1987

Associate Pastor, Saint Luke’s Anglican Church, Northmead

1988

Clerk, Australian Electoral Commission

1989–1991

Part time teaching in Cambridge

1991–1999

Lecturer in New Testament, King’s College, University of Aberdeen

2000

English Teacher, Abbotsleigh Anglican School for Girls

2001 –

Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Ethics and Director of Postgraduate Studies, Macquarie Christian Studies Institute, Macquarie University

2001 –2002

Lecturer (PT - 40%) Moore College

2001 –

Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University

Professional Activities

1998

Member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (elected 1998) and the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Studies.

Recent Postgraduate Teaching Experience

At the University of Aberdeen, supervised nine Ph.D. candidates (all successfully completed) and examined eight PhDs and three MTh students.

At Macquarie University supervised one PhD student (2001-2004).

Currently supervising two PhDs through Moore College and UWS.

Publications

Books

Paul, Scripture and Ethics: A Study of 1 Corinthians 5-7.  Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums 22.  Edited by Martin Hengel, et al. Leiden/New York/Köln: E.J. Brill, 1994. 

How to get really rich: A Sharp Look at the Religion of Greed. Leicester: IVP, 1999. 

Beyond Greed. Sydney: Matthias, 2004.

Greed is Idolatry: The Origin and Meaning of a Pauline Metaphor. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, (forthcoming 2006).

1 Corinthians: Pillar New Testament Commentary. Edited by D.A. Carson.  Eerdmans / IVP.  (Co-author with Roy Ciampa - forthcoming).

Bible Handbook. Leicester: IVP, (forthcoming 2006;). (Co-author with Howard Marshall, Tremper Longman, Carl Mosser, Philip Johnston, Ernest Lucas, Desmond Alexander and Mark Strauss)

Edited Volumes

Understanding Paul’s Ethics: Twentieth-Century Approaches.  Grand Rapids:Eerdmans/Carlisle:Paternoster, 1995.  Edited with introductory and concluding essays.  Co-translator of four of the fourteen essays from German.

The New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. IVP UK and USA, 2000.  Co-editor with Desmond Alexander, with Don Carson and Graeme Goldsworthy consulting editors.  A major reference work with a team of over 100 international contributors.  Winner of the award for the best Christian Reference Book, UK, 2001.  Translations currently underway into Arabic, French, Korean and Portuguese.

Articles

‘Moses Appointing Judges: An Antecedent to 1 Cor 6.1-6?’. Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der Älteren Kirche 82.3/4 (1991): 275-78.

‘Temple and Holiness in 1 Corinthians 5’. The Tyndale Bulletin 42.1 (1991): 137-45.

‘A Possible Quotation of Test. Reuben 5:5 in 1 Corinthians 6:18a’. The Journal of Theological Studies 43/1 (1992): 123-27.

‘Corporate Responsibility in 1 Corinthians 5’. New Testament Studies 43/1 (1992), 470-73.

’”Stronger than He?”: The Strength of 1 Corinthians 10:22b’. The Tyndale Bulletin 43.1 (1992). 171-79.

‘The Origin and Meaning of 1 Corinthians 6,9-11 in Context’. Biblische Zeitschrift 40.2 (1996): 250-53.

‘Temple Prostitution in 1 Corinthians 6:12-20’. Novum Testamentum 40.4 (1998): 336-351.

‘‘‘Drive out the wicked person”: A Biblical Theology of Exclusion’. The Evangelical Quarterly 71/1 (1999): 25-36.

‘Looking Back on the Twentieth Century: New Testament Studies’. Expository Times 110/10 (1999): 317-20.

‘The Concept of Idolatry’. Themelios 24/3 (1999): 28-32.

‘Habsucht – Eine Vergessene Sünde’. Theologische Beiträge 2 (2000): 75-81.

‘Secret Idolatry’. Ex Auditu 15 (2000): 73-86.

‘Humility as a Social Virtue in the Hebrew Bible?’ Vetus Testamentum LIV 4 (2004): 459-79. (Co-author with John P. Dickson)

‘Known by God: C.S. Lewis and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’. The Evangelical Quarterly 77.4 (2005): 343-52.

‘The Structure and Argument of 1 Corinthians: A Biblical/Jewish Approach’. New Testament Studies (forthcoming 2006).

Chapters in Books

‘Salvation History’. In the Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of Scripture.  Edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Craig R. Bartholomew and N.T. Wright. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005.

‘1 Corinthians’ In Commentary on the Use of the Old Testament in the New.  Edited by Don Carson and Greg Beale. Grand Rapids: Baker, (forthcoming 2006). (Co-authored with Roy Ciampa.) 

‘‘‘With what kind of body do they come?” (1 Cor15:35b): Paul’s Conception of Resurrection Bodies’. Pages 190-205 in The New Testament in its First Century Setting: Essays on Context and Background in Honour of B. W. Winter on His 65th Birthday. Edited by P. J. Williams, A. D. Clarke, P. M. Head and D. Instone-Brewer. Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2004.

'Paul's Ethics'. Pages 212-23 in The Cambridge Companion to St Paul. Edited by James D.G. Dunn. Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

‘The Progress of the Word’. Pages215-33 In Witness to the Gospel: The Theology of Acts. Edited by I. Howard Marshall and David Peterson. Grand Rapids: Eerdmanns, 1998.

‘The Function of Scripture in 1 Corinthians 5:13b and 6:16’. Pages 513-18 in The Corinthian Correspondence. Edited by Reimund Bieringer. BETL 125; Leuven, Belgium: Peeters University Press, 1996.

‘The Wisdom of God and the Wisdom of the World: Theology and the University’. Pages 37-43 in Where is Wisdom to be Found? University of Aberdeen Quincentenary Volume, 1995.

‘’Written for us’: Paul’s View of Scripture’. Pages 81-105 in A Pathway into the Holy Scripture. Edited by David Wright and Philip Satterthwaite. Eerdmanns/Paternoster, 1994.

‘Acts and Biblical History’. Pages 65-82 in The Book of Acts in its Ancient Literary Setting. Volume 1 of the six volume series The Book of Acts in its First-Century Setting. Edited by Bruce W. Winter and Andrew D. Clarke. Eerdmans/Paternoster, 1994.

‘The Jealousy of God and Religious Pluralism’. Pages 149-159 in One God, One Lord: Christianity in a World of Religious Pluralism. Edited by Andrew D. Clarke and Bruce W. Winter. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House/Carlisle: Paternoster, 1992.

Current Research

The Theme of Being Known by God in the Bible and Ancient Judaism – Tyndale Biblical Theology Lecture, 2007.

Law and ethics in the New Testament – book for series edited by James Dunn, Walter Brueggemann, et al.

Chapters for other books: Bonhoeffer on disappointment; Luther on greed; the use of Deuteronomy in 1 and 2 Corinthians.

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