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Dr Louise Lawrence

Publications

Books

Sense and Stigma: Reconfiguring Sensory Impaired Characters in the Gospels, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013.

The Word in Place: Reading the New Testament in Contemporary Contexts, SPCK, 2009.

Reading with Anthropology: Exhibiting Aspects of New Testament Religion, Paternoster Press, 2005.

Anthropology and Biblical Studies: Avenues of Research, Leiden, Deo Publishing, 2004.

An Ethnography of the Gospel of Matthew: A Critical Assessment of the Use of the Honour and Shame Model in Biblical Studies, Mohr Siebeck, 2003.

Articles

Structure, Agency and Ideology: A Response to Zeba Crook, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, vol. 29, no. 3, 2007, 277-286

Scribes Trained for the Kingdom of Heaven: Reflections on Reading the Bible for Politics in Community, Secondary and Higher Education Contexts in Scotland, Discourse, vol. 5, 2006, 99-122

“‘A Composer at the Cross’ Interpreting John Stainer’s Crucifixion”, Theology in Scotland, 2004, 61-77

“The Passion of the Christ: Gospel World Making and Reel Presence”, Theology, vol. 2005, 83-90

Chapters

The Gospel of Matthew and Deaf Culture, in Patte D (eds) Matthew: Texts and Contexts, Fortress, 2012

'Crumb Trails and Puppy-Dog Tales: Tracing the Reception History of the Canaanite Woman', in Rowland C,Joynes C (eds) From the Margins II: Women of the New Testament and their Afterlives, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010

‘A Signs Source: Approaching Deaf Biblical Interpretation’, in Coomber M (eds) Bible and Justice: Ancient Texts, Modern Challenges, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010

'Ritual and the First Urban Christians: Bounday Crossings of Life and Death', in Horrell DG,Still T (eds) After the First Urban Christians, T & T Clark, 2009

“Tracing Tricksters: Creation and Creativity in John's Gospel”, in Stichele CV,eds AGH (eds) Creation and Creativity : From Genesis to Genetics and Back, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2006

'Men of Perfect Holiness' (IQS7.20) Social-Scientific Thoughts on Group Identity, Asceticism and Ethical Development in The Rule of the Community, in Lyons J,Campbell J,Pietersen LK (eds) New Directions in Qumran Studies, Continuum Press, 2005, 83-100

“‘A Taste for the Other’: Interpreting Biblical Texts Anthropologically”, in Anthropology and Biblical Studies: Avenues of Research, Leiden: Deo Publishing, 2005, 9-25

Articles

Exploring the Sense-scape of the Gospel of Mark, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2011

'The Stilling of the Sea' and the Imagination of Place in a Cornish Fishing Village, EXPOSITORY TIMES, vol. 120, no. 4, 2009, 172-177

Contextual Bible Studies Resources on Place, EXPOSITORY TIMES, vol. 120, no. 3, 2008, 131-132

'On a cliffs edge': Actualizing Luke 8 : 22-39 in an intentional Christian community on the North Devon coast, EXPOSITORY TIMES, vol. 119, no. 3, 2007, 111-115

Contextual Bible study (Luke 15 : 1-10), EXPOSITORY TIMES, vol. 118, no. 11, 2007, 549-550

Being 'hefted': Reflections on place, stories and Contextual Bible Study, EXPOSITORY TIMES, vol. 118, no. 11, 2007, 530-535

Social-Scientific Criticisms, Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels

Conferences

'Men of Perfect Holiness' (IQS7.20) Social-Scientific Thoughts on Group Identity, Asceticism and Ethical Development in The Rule of the Community, , 2004, 83-100

Others

Christianity’ Higher Level Religious Studies Support Notes, , 2005