Staff profile

Dr. Larry Kreitzer

Regent's Park College

Phone: (2)88148

Email: larry.kreitzer@regents.ox.ac.uk

Lecture Series:

Research Interests: Pauline studies, particularly the relationship between christology and eschatology; Jewish apocalyptic literature; the apocalypse of John; numismatic research as applied to New Testament studies; the New Testament & modern literature and film; the Corinthian Correspondence; the Epistle to the Ephesians; 17th-century Baptists in Oxford.

Publications:

2 Corinthians (New Testament Guides; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, 2001, 2008).

Striking New Images: Roman Imperial Coinage and the New Testament World (JSNTSuppS #134; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996).

The Epistle to the Ephesians (Epworth Commentaries; London: Epworth Press, 1997).

‘The Power of the Cross of Christ: Pauline Theology and Bram Stoker’s Dracula,’ in T. Tippin and G. Aichele (eds.) The Monstrous and the Unspeakable: The Bible as Fantastic Literature (Playing the Texts #1; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997): 181-219.

‘”Crude Language” and ”Shameful Things Done in Secret” (Ephesians 5:4, 12): Allusions to the Cult of Demeter/Cybele in Hierapolis,’ Journal for the Study of the New Testament 71 (1998): 51-77.

‘”When He at Last is First!”: Philippians 2:9-11 and the Exaltation of the Lord,’ in R.P. Martin and B.J. Dodd (eds.) Where Christology Began: Essays on Philippians 2 (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1998): 111-127.

‘The Plutonium of Hierapolis: A Geographical Solution for the Puzzle of Ephesians 4:8-9?,’ in R. Dvorakova and J. Mrazek (eds.) EPI AUTO: Essays in Honour of Petr Pokorny (Biblical Institute: Charles University, Prague, 1998): 218-233.

‘The Temple Incident of John 2:13-25: A Preview of What is to Come,’ in C. Rowland and C.H.T. Fletcher-Louis (eds.) Understanding, Studying, and Reading: Essays in Honour of John Ashton (JSNTSuppS #153; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998): 93-101.

‘The Plutonium of Hierapolis and the Descent of Christ into the ”Lowermost Parts of the Earth” (Ephesians 4,9),’ Biblica 79 (1998): 381-393 + Plates I and II.

Pauline Images in Fiction and Film (The Biblical Seminar #61; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999).

‘Boarding the Eschatological Ark of God: Noah/Deucalion and the ”Phrygian Connection” in 1 Peter 3:19-22,’ in A.R. Cross and S.E. Porter (eds.) Baptism, the New Testament and the Church: Historical and Contemporary Studies in Honour of R.E.O. White (JSNTSuppS #171; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999): 228-272.

‘Suffering, Sacrifice and Redemption: Biblical Imagery in Star Trek,’ in J.E. Porter and D.L. McClaren (eds.) Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999): 139-163.

‘”Revealing the Affairs of the Heart”: Sin, Accusation and Confession in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter,’ in L.J. Kreitzer and Deborah W. Rooke (eds.) Ciphers in the Sand: Interpretations of the Woman Taken in Adultery (John 7:53-8:11) (The Biblical Seminar #74; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000): 139-213.

‘The Horror! The Whore!: The Abomination of Desolation and Conrad's Heart of Darkness,’ in Christopher Rowland and John Barton (eds.) Apocalyptic in History and Tradition (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series #43; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002): 284-318.

Gospel Images in Fiction and Film (The Biblical Seminar #84; Continuum/Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002).

‘The 1799 Baptist Meeting House Drawing and the Origins of the Tidmarsh Baptismal Tradition,’ in Rosie Chadwick (ed.) A Protestant Catholic Church of Christ: Essays on the History and Life of New Road Baptist Church, Oxford (Oxford: New Road Baptist Church, Oxford, 2003): 137-146.

‘Epaphras and Philip: The Undercover Evangelists of Hierapolis’, in R. Glenn Wooden, Timothy R. Ashley and Robert S Wilson (eds.) "You will be my witnesses": A Festschrift in Honor of the Reverend Dr. Allison A. Trites on the Occasion of His Retirement (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2003): 127-143.

‘The Election in the Guildhall: Oxford politics in the 17th century,’ The Baptist Quarterly 40 (2004): 430-435.

‘Living in the Lycus Valley: Earthquake Imagery in Colossians, Philemon and Ephesians,’ in Jirí Mrázek and Jan Roskovec (eds.) Testimony and Interpretation: Early Christology in its Judeo-Hellenistic Milieu. Studies in Honour of Petr Pokorý (JSNT Supplement Series #272; T & T Clark International: London, 2004): 81-94.

‘The Fifth Monarchist John Pendarves (†1656) - A Victim of “Studious Bastard Consumption?”’, American Baptist Quarterly 23 (2004): 281-289.

‘The Messianic Man of Peace as Temple Builder: Solomonic Imagery in Ephesians 2.13-22,’ in John Day (ed.) Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel (JSOT Supplement Series #422; T & T Clark International: London, 2005): 484-512.

‘1653 or 1656: When Did Oxford Baptists Join the Abingdon Association?,’ in Philip E. Thompson and Anthony R. Cross (eds.) Recycling the Past or Researching History?: Studies in Baptist Historiography and Myths (Studies in Baptist History and Thought #11; Paternoster Press: Milton Keynes, 2005): 207-219.

(with John Weaver) ‘Resources: The Mission, Blade Runner, Witness, Amadeus, Gandhi, The Killing Fields, The Color Purple, 1984, Cry Freedom, Bridget Jones's Diary, Saving Private Ryan,' in Anthony J. Clarke and Paul S. Fiddes (eds.) Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue (Regent's Study Guides #12; Regent's Park College/Smyth & Helwys: Oxford/Macon, Georgia, 2005): 229-307.

‘Matthew 11:28 and Release from the Burden of Sin: Bunyan and De Niro meet Jesus,’ in George Aichele and Richard Walsh (eds.) Those Outside: Noncanonical Readings of the Canonical Gospels (T & T Clark International: London, 2005): 65-84.

William Kiffin: The Portrait of 1667 at Regent's Park College, Oxford (The Centre for Baptist History and Heritage: Regent's Park College, Oxford, 2006).

'Seditious Sectaryes': The Baptist Conventiclers of Oxford, 1641-1691 (Studies in Baptist History and Thought #30.1 and 30.2; Paternoster Press: Milton Keynes, 2006).

'A "Famous Prank" in Oxford?: The Jacobite Riots of 1715 and the Charge of Sexual Scandal,’ The Baptist Quarterly 42 (2007): 33-52.

'Film and Interpretation' and 'Numismatics,' in Stanley E. Porter (ed.) Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation (London: Routledge, 2007): 108-110 and 247-248.

'The New Testament in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow (1993),' in Jolyon Mitchell and S. Brent Plate (eds.) The Religion and Film Reader (London: Routledge, 2007): 370-373.

Hierapolis in the Heavens: Studies in the Letter to the Ephesians (Journal of New Testament Studies #368; T & T Clark International: London, 2007).

Philemon (Readings: A New Biblical Commentary; Sheffield Phoenix Press: Sheffield, 2008).

'Moby-Dick: Encountering the Leviathan of God - the Remake', Australian Religion Studies Review 21.3 (2008): 262-276.

'Oxford's First Quaker Meeting Place: the Home of the Surgeon Richard Bettris (c. 1606-1682)', Oxoniensia 73 (2009): 59-97 + Plates 10-12.

'A Letter of John Pendarves from 1656,’ The Baptist Quarterly 43 (2009): 49-55.

'The Fifth Monarchist John Pendarves - Chaplain to Colonel Thomas Rainborowe's Regiment of Foot (1645-7),’ The Baptist Quarterly 43 (2009): 112-122.

General Interests:

Dr. Kreitzer is a Fellow at Regent's Park College where he has been based since 1986; he is also the Tutor for Graduate Admissions there. In addition, Dr. Kreitzer holds a Research Lectureship within the Faculty of Theology, and has served as the Lecturer in New Testament at Oriel College, Oxford since 1990. He is a member of the Society of New Testament Studies and serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal for the Study of the New Testament. He is married to Dr. Deborah W. Rooke, Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at King’s College London.