Brian W. Bunnell
Phd Candidate in New Testament & Christian Origins
Contact details
- Email: Brian.Bunnell@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Adacademia.edu
Address
- Street
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School of Divinity
New College
Mound Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH1 2LX
Background
Brian W. Bunnell is a PhD Candidate in New Testament and Christian Origins and a Tutor in Biblical Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
In addition to his studies at Edinburgh, Mr. Bunnell has completed course work in German and Theology at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
Qualifications
BA, MDiv, ThM
Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Responsibilities & affiliations
Society of Biblical Literature (2013-)
British New Testament Society (2015-)
European Association of Biblical Studies (2017-)
Contributor, Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies (2016-)
Steering Committee, New College School of Divinity Postgraduate Colloquium (2016); Convener (2017)
Student Committee, Centre for the Study of Christian Origins (2016-)
Undergraduate teaching
Tutor
- Paul and His Letters (Spring 2017); Nominated for Edinburgh University Students' Association "Best Student Who Tutors" Teaching Award
- Jesus and the Gospels (Spring 2018)
Research summary
Since the Fall of 2015 I have been working on my PhD at the University of Edinburgh. My research focuses on the kingdom of God in early Christian texts. I am interested to discover the function of the phrase kingdom of God in the first one hundred years of Christianity, and from this, to consider the role that the expression played among early Jesus followers. My supervisors are Prof. Helen K. Bond and Dr. Matthew V. Novenson.
Current research interests
Kingdom of God in Early Judaism and Christianity, Pauline Epistles, Early Christian Gospels, Apostolic Fathers, Ancient Biblical Interpretation, Social Memory TheoryAffiliated research centres
Articles
"Kingdom of God in Ignatius and Paul: A Social-Linguistic Comparison of an Early Christian Stock Phrase." Studia Patristica, forthcoming.
"Key, Keys New Testament." In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 15 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017): 151-153.
"Figural Reading in the Book of the Cave of Treasures: Recovering an Interpretive Tradition." Fides et Humilitas: The Journal for Ancient Christian Studies 1 (2014): 7-27.
Book Reviews
Brian K. Gamel, Mark 15:39 as a Markan Theology of Revelation: The Centurion's Confession as Apocalyptic Unveiling (T&T Clark, 2017). Reviewed in The Expository Times, 131.5 (2020), 228–229.
Karl Allen Kuhn, The Kingdom according to Luke and Acts: A Social, Literary, and Theological Introduction (Baker Academic, 2015). Reviewed in Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2018).
Michael J. Gorman, Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, and Mission (Eerdmans, 2015). Reviewed in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 59.4 (December 2016), 866-869.
Paul V. Axton, The Psychotheology of Sin and Salvation: An Analysis of the Meaning of the Death of Christ in Light of the Psychoanalytical Reading of Paul (T&T Clark, 2015). Reviewed in The Expository Times 127.11 (August 2016), 558.
"Kingdom of God in Ignatius and Paul: A Social-Linguistic Comparison of an Early Christian Stock Phrase." Ignatius and his Syrian Milieu Section of the XVIII. International Conference on Patristic Studies. University of Oxford. 20 August 2019.
"Kingdom of God Before Christianity." School of Divinity Biblical Studies Seminar. University of Edinburgh. 1 December 2017.
"Confronting the Empire: Kingship Language as a Subversive Force in the Gospel of Mark." Jesus Traditions, Gospels, and Negotiating the Roman Imperial World Section of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. 19 November 2017.
"Entering the Kingdom of God in Luke-Acts and the Shepherd of Hermas: A Test Case for Analysing βασιλεία θεοῦ in Early Christianity." Early Christianity Section of the British New Testament Society Annual Meeting. University of Chester. 3 September 2016.
"Mapping the Kingdom: An Analysis of the Function of the Kingdom of God in Early Christian Texts." New College Postgraduate Colloquium. University of Edinburgh. 20 April 2016.
"Figural Reading in the Cave of Treasures: Recovering an Interpretive Tradition." Pseudepigrapha Section of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA. 23 November 2014.