Publications

Books

• Runesson, Anders. “The Judgement According to Matthew.”Lic. Theol. diss., University of Lund, 1997. [Unpublished; 133 pages].

• Runesson, Anders. The Origins of the Synagogue: A Socio-Historical Study. ConBNT 37. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2001. (573 pages). ISBN 91-22-01946-4.

  Reviews: Leonard V. Rutgers, Utrecht University: Biblische Zeitschrift 50:2 (2006) 297-299;Jean Marcel Vincent, la Faculté libre de théologie protestante de Paris: Études Théologiques et Religieuses 1 (2004) 107-108;Maurice Sartre, Université de Tours: Revue des Études Anciennes, 106:2 (2004) 667-669; Heather McKay, University of Sheffield: The Expository Times 114:12 (2003) 426-427; Carsten Claußen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München: Theologische Literaturzeitung 128 (2003) 1281-1283; Stig Norin, Uppsala University, Sweden: Svensk exegetisk årsbok 68 (2003) 230-233; Stefan Reif, Cambridge University: JTS 54:2 (2003) 657-660; J. Radermakers, Institut d’Etudes Théologiques, Bruxelles: Nouvelle Revue Théologique 125:3 (2003) 464-465; Peter Richardson, University of Toronto: Review of Biblical Literature 3/22 (2003) [http://www.bookreviews.org]; Anders klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark: Dansk teologisk tidsskrift 65:4 (2002) 299-301; Lesslie Hoppe, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago: Catholic Biblical Quarterly 64 (2002) 776-777; Per Bilde, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark: Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift 78:4 (2002) 188-189.

• Runesson, Anders and Torbjörn Sjöholm (eds.). Varför ser ni mot himlen? Utmaningar från den kontextuella teologin. [Why Do you Look Towards the Heaven? Challenges from Contextual Theology]. Stockholm: Verbum, 2005. (204 pages)

• Mitternacht Dieter and Anders Runesson (eds.). Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Stockholm: Verbum, 2006. (527 pages). ISBN 97891-526-4721-9.

  Reviews: See, e.g., Tord Fornberg, Signum 2007:7 (http://www.signum.se/signum/template.php?page=read&id=3618).

• Runesson, Anders, Donald D. Binder, and Birger Olsson. The Ancient Synagogue: From its Origins to 200 c.e. A Source Book. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Series 72. Leiden: Brill, 2008. (328 pages + foldout map). ISBN 9789004161160.

  Reviews/Endorsements:
  See BRILL’s web site (http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=25772) for details and reviews/endorsements by Lee I. Levine, Sean Freyne, John Kloppenborg, Peter Richardson, James F. Strange.
  Other reviews: Daniel M. Gurtner, Bethel Seminary St. Paul, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Dec 2008 (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3817/is_200812/ai_n31171945/?tag=content;col1); René Bloch, University of Bern, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, Vol. 9 (2009) (http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/reviews/reviews_new/review386.htm).

Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

• Anders Runesson. “Skapelseverb i aktivt particip i GT: Teologiska implikationer” (“Creation Verbs in the Active Participle in the Hebrew Bible: Theological Implications”). Svensk exegetisk årsbok, 59 (1994): 7-20.
• Anders Runesson. “The Oldest Original Synagogue Building in the Diaspora: A Response to L. Michael White, Harvard Theological Review, 92:4 (1999): 409-33. ISSN 0017-8160.
• Anders Runesson. “Biblisk teologi – en fråga om spelregler En diskussion om ‘objektivitet’ och ‘konfessionalism’ i dialog med Francis Watsons Text and Truth: Redefining Biblical Theology” (“Biblical Theology – a Question about Game Rules. A Discussion of ‘Objectivity’ and ‘Confessionalism’ in Dialogue with Francis Watson’s Text and Truth: Redefining Biblical Theology”). Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, 75 (1999): 126-33. [English summary].

• Anders Runesson. “Bortom metod och perspektiv: Om Prof. Fridrichen och judarna” (“Beyond Methods and Perspectives: On Prof. Anton Fridrichsen and the Jews”). Nordisk Judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies 20:1-2 (1999): 115-21. [English summary].
• Anders Runesson. “Particularistic Judaism and Universalistic Christianity? Some Critical Remarks on Terminology and Theology.” Pages 120-44 in Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism. Volume 1 (2000). Edited by Stanley E. Porter, Matthew Brook O’Donnell, and Wendy J. Porter. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2004. ISBN 1-905048-06-8. Also published in: Studia Theologica, 54:1 (2000): 55-75.

• Runesson, Anders. “Water and Worship: Ostia and the Ritual Bath in the Diaspora Synagogue.” Pages 115-29 in The Synagogue of Ancient Ostia and the Jews of Rome: Interdisciplinary Studies. ActaRom-4o, 57. Edited by Birger Olsson, Dieter Mitternacht, and Olof Brandt. Stockholm: Paul Åström, 2001. ISBN 91-7042-165-X
• Runesson, Anders. “The Synagogue at Ancient Ostia: The Building and its History from the First to the Fifth Century.” Pages 29-99 in The Synagogue of Ancient Ostia and the Jews of Rome: Interdisciplinary Studies. ActaRom-4o, 57. Edited by Birger Olsson, Dieter Mitternacht, and Olof Brandt. Stockholm: Paul Åström, 2001. ISBN 91-7042-165-X.

  Reviews:
  Adam Porter, Illinois College: American Journal of Archaeology, 109:4 (2005) 810-813; David Noy, University of Wales: The Classical Review (2003) 428-429; Massimiliano Ghilardi, Università degli Studi di Roma: (“La sinagoga di Ostia Antica e gli ebrei di Roma: riflessioni in margine ad un recente libro,” Mediterraneo antico. Economie società culture, VI:1 (2003) 311-324; Susan Sorek, University of Wales: Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003) 331; Eric M. Meyers, Duke University: BASOR 328 (2002) 97-99.

• Runesson, Anders. “Frälsning utan gränser? Om Nya testamentet och religionsdialog” (“Salvation Without Limits? On the New Testament and Religious Dialogue”). Pages 41-55 in Hela jorden är Herrens: Olika tro sida vid sida. [All the Earth Belongs to the Lord: Different Faiths Side by Side] Religio 53. Edited by Birger Olsson. Lund: Teologiska institutionen. 2001. ISSN 0280-5723.

• Anders Runesson. “Från integration till marginalisering: Arkeologi som text i analysen av tidig diasporajudendom” (“From Integration to Marginalization: Archaeology as Text and the Analysis of Early Diaspora Judaism”). Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 67 (2002): 121-44 [English summary]. Also published in Collegium Biblicums årsskrift (2002): 21-40. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen.
• Anders Runesson. “A Monumental Synagogue from the First Century: The Case of Ostia.” Journal for the Study of Judaism, 33 (2002): 171-220. ISSN 1570-0631.

• Runesson, Anders. “Persian Imperial Politics, the Beginnings of Public Torah Reading, and the Origins of the Synagogue.” Pages 63-89 in The Ancient Synagogue: From the Beginning to about 200 ce. Papers Presented at the International Conference at Lund University October 14-17, 2001. ConBNT, 39. Edited by Birger Olsson and Magnus Zetterholm. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2003.
• Anders Runesson. “The Origins of the Synagogue in Past and Present Research: Some Comments on Definitions, Theories, and Sources.” Studia Theologica 58:1 (2004): 60-76.

• Anders Runesson. “Rit, politik och sakral arkitektur: Om förnyelse och anpassning i den antika synagogan.” [Rituals, Politics, and Sacred Architecture: On Renewal and Adaptation in the Ancient Synagogue”] CHAOS, Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier 44 (2005), 23-38.
• Runesson, Anders and Sjöholm Torbjörn. “Introduktion: Heliga texter och kontextuell teologi” (“Introduction: Sacred Texts and Contextual Theology”). Pages 13-20 in Varför ser ni mot himlen? Utmaningar från den kontextuella teologin. (Why Do you Look Towards the Heaven? Challenges from the Contextual Theology). Edited by Runesson, Anders and Torbjörn Sjöholm. Stockholm: Verbum, 2005.

• Anders Runesson. “Kvinnligt ledarskap i den tidiga kyrkan: Några exempel och en tolkningsram” (“Women Leadership in the Early Church: Some Examples and an Interpretive Frame”). Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 82 (2006): 173-83. [English summary]. ISSN 0039-6761.
• Runesson Anders and Dieter Mitternacht. “Här börjar det” (“It Begins Here”). Pages 23-32 in Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Edited by Mitternacht, Dieter and Anders Runesson. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006.

• Runesson, Anders. “Vägar till det förflutna” (“Roads to the Past”). Pages 42-54 in Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Edited by Mitternacht, Dieter and Anders Runesson. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006.
• Runesson, Anders. “Kvinnor, män och makt i antiken och i de tidiga kyrkorna” (“Women, Men, and Power in Antiquity and in the Early Churches”). Pages 135-47 in Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Edited by Mitternacht, Dieter and Anders Runesson. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006.

• Runesson, Anders. “Kristustroende judar och avskiljandet av kristendom från judendom” (“Christ-Believing Jews and the Separation Between Christianity and Judaism”). Pages 309-35 in Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Edited by Mitternacht, Dieter and Anders Runesson. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006.
• Runesson, Anders. “Synagogan” (“The Synagogue”). Pages 76-79 in Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Edited by Mitternacht, Dieter and Anders Runesson. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006.

• Runesson, Anders. “Icke-bibliska källor” (“Non-Biblical Sources”). Pages 501-12 in Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Edited by Mitternacht, Dieter and Anders Runesson. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006.
• Runesson, Anders. “Praktisk sanning och svenskkyrklig religionsteologi” (“Praxis-oriented Definitions of Truth and the Theology of Religions of the Church of Sweden”). Pages 96-107 in Religionsteologi och religionsmöten (Theology of Religion and Interfaith Encounters). Studia Missionalia Svecana. Edited by Aasulv Lande and Carl Sundberg. Uppsala: Svenska Institutet för Missionsforskning, 2007. ISSN 1101-6701.

• Runesson, Anders. “Architecture, Conflict, and Identity Formation: Jews and Christians in Capernaum From the 1st to the 6th Century.” Pages 231-57 in The Ancient Galilee in Interaction: Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity. Edited byJürgen Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge, Dale Martin, and. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. ISBN 978-3-16-149044-6.
• Runesson, Anders. “Introduction.” Pages 1-19 in The Ancient Synagogue: From its Origins to 200 c.e. A Source Book. Edited by Anders Runesson, Donald D. Binder, and Birger Olsson, Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 72. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

• Runesson, Anders. “Re-Thinking Early Jewish–Christian Relations: Matthean Community History as Pharisaic Intragroup Conflict.” Journal of Biblical Literature 127:1 (2008) 95-132.
• Runesson, Anders. “Inventing Christian Identity: Paul, Ignatius, and Theodotius I.” Pages 59-92 in Exploring Early Christian Identity. Edited by Bengt Holmberg. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008.

• Runesson, Anders. “From Where to What? Common Judaism, Pharisees, and the Changing Socio-Religious Location of the Matthean Community.” Pages 97-113 in Common Judaism: Explorations in Second Temple Judaism. Edited by Wayne McCready and Adele Reinhartz. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008.
• Runesson, Anders. “Was there a Christian Mission Before the Fourth Century? Problematizing Common Ideas about Early Christianity and the Beginnings of Modern Mission.” Submitted to Samuel Byrskog and Magnus Zetterholm (eds.), Identity and the Development of Early Christianity. Planned for publication 2009.

• Runesson, Anders<. “Judgment.” Pages 457-466 in The New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 3. Edited by Katherine Doob Sakenfeld et al. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008.

• Runesson, Anders. “Reading”. Page 481 in Lexikon der Bibelhermeneutik: Begriffe – Methoden – Theorien – Konzepte. Edited by Oda Wischmeyer et al. Walter de Gruyter Verlag: Berlin, 2009. (Not Peer-Reviewed).

• Runesson, Anders. Review of Neusner J., En rabbin samtalar med Jesus (A Rabbi Talks With Jesus), Svensk Kyrkotidning, 94:43-44 (1996): 494-96.

• Runesson, Anders and Irene von Görtz-Wrieberg. Review of Levine, L. I., The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 76:4 (2000): 200-2.

• Runesson, Anders. Review of Binder, D. D., Into the Temple Courts. The Place of the Synagogues in the Second Temple Period. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 78:2 (2002): 85-86.

• Runesson, Anders. Review of Bristow, E., (ed.), No Religion is an Island: The Nostra Aetate Dialogues. Reviews in Jewish-Christian Relations (2003:1) [http://www.cjcr.cam.ac.uk/publications/reviews/rev/03001.html].

• Runesson, Anders. Review of Ego, B., A. Lange and P. Pilhofer (eds.), Gemeinde ohne Tempel: Zur Substituierung und Transformation des Jerusalemer Tempels und seines Kults im Alten Testament, antiken Judentum und frühen Christentum. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 79:1 (2003): 54-55.

• Runesson, Anders. Review of Claußen, C., Versamlung, Gemeinde, Synagoge: Das hellenistisch-jüdische Umfeld der frühchristlichen Gemeinde. Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, 79:1 (2003): 62-63.

• Runesson, Anders. Review of Claußen, C., Versamlung, Gemeinde, Synagoge: Das hellenistisch-jüdische Umfeld der frühchristlichen Gemeinde. Journal for the Study of Judaism, 34:3 (2003): 312-16. [Note that this review is not identical with the one above, but include a more comprehensive discussion.]

• Runesson, Anders. Review of Nanos, M., The Irony of Galatians: Paul’s Letter in First-Century Context. Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 68 (2003): 221-23.

• Runesson, Anders. Review of John K. Riches, Conflicting Mythologies: Identity Formation in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 80:1 (2004): 40-41.

• Runesson, Anders. Review of Philip A. Harland, Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society. Biblica 86:1 (2005): 137-141.

• Runesson, Anders. Review of Matt Jackson-McCabe, ed. Jewish Christianity Reconsidered: Rethinking Ancient Groups and Texts. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007. Toronto Journal of Theology 25:1 (2009).

• Runesson, Anders. Review of Morten Hørning Jensen, Herod Antipas in Galilee: The Literary and Archaeological Sources on the Reign of Herod Antipas and its Socio-Economic Impact on Galilee. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006. Toronto Journal of Theology 25:1 (2009).

• Runesson, Anders. Review of Serge Ruzer, Mapping the New Testament: Early Christian Writings as a Witness for Jewish Biblical Exegesis. Biblical Theology Bulletin (2009), forthcoming.