Jesuits Authors

Fr. Jerome Neyrey, SJ
Biography:
In his more than six decades of service to the Church, Fr. Jerry Neyrey, SJ, has established himself as a theological scholar. He is also one of the most prolific Jesuit authors in the United States.
He taught theology for more than 30 years, primarily at the University of Notre Dame, as well as Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., and the Weston Jesuit Community in Cambridge, Mass.
His most recent assignments are as a retreat and spiritual director and pastoral minister.
Father Neyrey has always understood his priestly ministry in terms of “Service of the Word,” and his long list of publications speaks to his commitment to what he feels has been God’s calling for him.
Publication list:
Books:
2 Peter and Jude. Anchor Bible, 37C. New York: Doubleday, 1993.
By What Authority? Luke Gives Jesus Public Voice
Calling Jesus Names: The Social Value of Labels in Matthew. (With Bruce J. Malina) Sonoma, CA: Polebridge, 1988.
An Encomium for Jesus. Luke, Rhetoric, and the Story of Jesus. Sheffield University Press, 2020
First Timothy, Second Timothy, Titus, James, First Peter, Second Peter, Jude. Collegeville Bible Commentary, 9. Collegeville, MN: Collegeville, 1983.
Give God the Glory. Prayer and Worship in Cultural Perspective. Erdmans, 2007.
The Gospel of John in Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective. Eerdmans, 2009
Hearing Revelation 1-3. Listening with Greek Rhetoric and Culture
Honor and Shame: Matthew and the Great Code. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1999.
How Do You Read? Social-Science Interpretations of the New Testament, co-edited with Eric Stewart.
Imagining Jesus . . . In His Own Culture. Wipf & Stock, 2018
Indispensable Companions. Jesuit Brothers in the South from Colonial Times til Now (2017)
The Passion Narrative in St. Luke. Mahwah, NJ: PaulistPress, 1985.
Paul in Other Words: A Cultural Reading of His Letters. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1990.
Portraits of Paul: An Archaeology of Ancient Personality. (With Bruce J. Malina) Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1996.
Render to God: New Testament Understandings of the Divine. Fortress Press, 2004.
The Resurrection Stories. Zacchaeus Studies: New Testament. Michael Glazier, 1988.
The Social World of Luke-Acts. Models for Interpretation. Editor. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991.
A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Gospel of John. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Southern Jesuit Biographies. Pastors and Preachers, Builders and Teachers of the New Orleans Province. Acadian Publishing House, 2015
Articles:
New Testament: General
“Who Is Poor in the New Testament?,” Scripture from Scratch. October 2002.
“Other Urban Christians: The Cities of Revelation 1-3,” BTB 51 (2021) 132-148
“A City and the Cities of Revelation” [forthcoming in William S. Kurz festschrift]
The Gospel of Mark
“A Symbolic Approach to Mark 7.” Forum 4,3 (1988):63-91.
“The Idea of Purity in Mark’s Gospel.” Semeia 35 (1986):91-128.
The Gospel of Matthew
Luke/Acts of the Apostles
The Gospel of John
“‘I Am the Door’ (John 10:7, 9): Jesus the Broker in the Fourth Gospel,” CBQ 69 (2007) 271-291.
“In Conclusion…John 12 as a Rhetorical Peroratio,” BTB 37 (2007) 101-13.
“The ‘Ten’ Commandments in the Gospel of John,” Biblica 102 (2021) 248-269
“‘I Said: You are Gods’: Psalm 82 and John 10.” Journal of Biblical Literature 108 (1989):647-63.
“Jesus the Judge: Forensic Process in John 8,21-59.” Biblica 68 (1987):509-41.
“Rhetoric and the Prologue of John: An Invitation to a New Conversation” Biblica 101 (2020) 372-395
Paul’s Letters
Miscellanea
“Mary, Maid and Mother in Art and Literature,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 20 (1990): 65-75
“Syncrisis and Encomium: Reading Hebrews through Greek Rhetoric” CBQ 82 (2020) 276-299
“Was Jesus a Monotheist? Conversation with Cultural Studies” BTB 49 (2019) 132-145
“‘How Does This Man Have Learning, Since He is without Education’” BTB 48 (2018) 85-96
“Good and Bad Use Depends on How One Reads” [forthcoming from Listening]