Recent Faculty Scholarship (2025-26)

Jared Alcántara

Alcántara, J. (2024). The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson: How America’s Most Powerful Black Preacher Became a Forgotten Man. Oxford University Press

Kimlyn Bender

Fleming Rutledge (2024). By Means of the Work Worked: The Unique Power of Biblical Preaching. Ed. Kimlyn J. Bender. Baylor University Press

Bender, K. J. (2024). “Reflections on God’s Body, or, an Exercise in Examining the Limitations of Comparative Religious Studies for Understanding Israel’s Theology of God,” Pro Ecclesia 

Bender, K. J. (2024). “5 Lessons Christians Can Learn from the Barmen Declaration,” Christianity Today (online edition).

Bender, K. J. (2025). “The Center and the Periphery,” in Wonderful Words of Life: Scripture, Proclamation, and Community. 

Brian Brewer

“‘A Gathered Congregation of People which is Built on Christ’: Core Ecclesial Principles Anabaptists and Early Baptists Held in Common,” for the 500th Anniversary of the Anabaptist Movement special issue, Journal of European Baptist Studies, volume 25:1 (Summer 2025), pp. 1-22.

Rebecca Poe Hays

Hays, R. P. (2025). Co-authored with Deirdre N. Fulton. “The Lady Vanishes: Considering Lady Zion’s Presence and Absence in Postexilic Literature,” in Festschrift for James D. Nogalski.

Hays, R. P. (2025). “Praying Psalm 46 for Resilience,” Word & World.

Hays, R. P. (2025). Co-authored with Stephen Breck Reid and Madde Ely. “Psalms,” Oxford Bibliographies Online in Biblical Studies.

Daniel Hill

Hill, D. L. (2025). Bearing Witness: What the Church Can Learn from Early Abolitionists. Baker Academic.

Jangho Jeremiah Jo

Jo, J. (2025). (St. Augustine for Today) IVP Korea.

Matthew Kim

Kim, M. D. (2025). Co-authored with Eric J. Bargerhuff. What’s God Saying Here?: How to Navigate Awkward, Troubling, and Bizarre Texts We Would Rather Skip. Zondervan.

Kim, M. D. (2025). Co-edited with Tara Beth Leach and Patricia M. Batten. We Follow Christ: Helping Women to Discern God’s Call. Baylor University Press.

Elisabeth Rain Kincaid

Kincaid, E. R. (2024). ‘Therefore Israel First:’ Francisco de Toledo’s Claims for Converso Christians, in Ignatius of Loyola and Thomas Aquinas: A Jesuit Ressourcement. Catholic University of America Press.

Kincaid, E. R. (2024). “Sabbath Keeping as a Virtue for Shalom,” Journal of Religion and Business Ethics.

Jenny Matheny

Matheny, J. M. (2025). Hesed, the Seed of the Biblical Story: New Life for Old Testament Theology. Baker Academic.

Matheny, J. M. (2025). “Holiness in Ruth,” in Holiness in the Old Testament: A Textual and Thematic Study, Matt Ayers and John Oswalt (eds.), Kregal Academic.

Dennis Tucker

Tucker, W. D., Jr. (2024). Malachi. Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament. Zondervan.

Tucker, W. D., Jr. (2024). “Revisiting Psalm 91 in Light of Rainer Albertz’s Model of Internal Religious Pluralism,” Journal of Biblical Literature.

Tucker, W. D., Jr. (2024). “Review of Judith Gärtner. Das ägyptische Hallel. Eine Untersuchung zu Theologie und Komposition der Psalmen 113-18,” Theologische Literaturzeitung.