Simon J. Gathercole Explained

Simon Gathercole
Birth Date:	8 July 1974
Occupation:	New Testament scholar
Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Alma Mater:	University of Durham
Thesis Title:	After the New Perspective: works, justification and boasting in early Judaism and Romans 1-5
Thesis Url:	http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1654/1/1654.pdf
Thesis Year:	2001
Doctoral Advisor:	James D.G. Dunn

Simon James Gathercole (born 8 July 1974) is a United Kingdom New Testament scholar, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, and Director of Studies at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.^[1]

Biography

Gathercole completed a degree in Classics and Theology at Cambridge and then pursued doctoral research at Durham University under the supervision of James D. G. Dunn, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the German Academic Exchange Service and Hatfield College.^{[2] [3]} He also studied for short periods at the University of Tübingen and the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Aberdeen.

Drawn from his dissertation, his book Where is Boasting? (2002) was a critique of the New Perspective on Paul, and focused on Second-Temple Judaism and Romans 1-5.

Since 2007, Gathercole has served as editor of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament.

Works

Thesis

• Gathercole . Simon J. . After the New Perspective: works, justification and boasting in early Judaism and Romans 1-5 . Ph.D. . Durham, UK . Durham University . 2001 .

Books

• Book: Gathercole . Simon J. . Where is Boasting: Early Jewish Soteriology and Paul's Response in Romans 1-5 . Grand Rapids, MI . Eerdmans . 2002 . 9780802839916 . 50270358 .
• Book: Gathercole . Simon J. . 3 . The Pre-existent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark, And Luke . Grand Rapids, MI . Eerdmans . 2006 . 9780802829016 . 68786800 .
• Book: Gathercole . Simon J. . 3 . Barclay . John M. G. . John M. G. Barclay . Divine and human agency in Paul and his cultural environment . Library of New Testament studies . 335 . London & New York . T & T Clark . 2006 . 9780567084538 . 78988350 .
• Book: Gathercole . Simon J. . 3 . The Gospel of Judas: Rewriting Early Christianity . Oxford & New York . Oxford University Press . 2007 . 9780191527531 . 191028046 .
• Book: Gathercole . Simon J. . 3 . The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas : original language and influences . Society for New Testament Studies: Monograph series . 151 . Cambridge & New York . Cambridge University Press . 2012 . 9781107009042 . 753630580 .
• Book: Gathercole . Simon J. . 3 . The Gospel of Thomas: introduction and commentary . Texts and editions for New Testament study . 11 . Leiden & Boston . Brill . 2014 . 9789004190412 . 872222206 .
• Book: Gathercole . Simon J. . 3 . Defending substitution : an essay on atonement in Paul . Acadia studies in Bible and theology . Grand Rapids, MI . Baker Academic . 2015 . 9780801049774 . 881440386 .
• The Apocryphal Gospels (2021). Penguin Classics. ISBN 9780241340554
• Book: Gathercole . Simon J. . 3 . The Gospel and the Gospels . Grand Rapids, MI . Eerdmans . 2022 . 978-0802877598 . 1294289382.

As editor

• Book: Gathercole . Simon J. . 3 . Weeks . Stuart . Stuart Weeks . Stuckenbruck . Loren T. . Loren Stuckenbruck . The Book of Tobit: texts from the principal ancient and medieval traditions: with synopsis, concordances, and annotated texts in Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Syriac . Fontes et subsidia ad Bibliam pertinentes . 3 . Berlin & New York . Walter de Gruyter . 2004 . 9783110897029 . 865508180 .
• Book: Gathercole . Simon J. . 3 . Alexander . T. Desmond . T. Desmond Alexander . Heaven on Earth . Carlisle, UK . Paternoster Press . 2004 . 9781842272725 . 57403727 .

Articles and chapters

• Gathercole . Simon J. . 3 . Romans 1-5 and the "weak" and the "strong": Pauline theology, pastoral rhetoric, and the purpose of Romans . Review & Expositor . 100 . 1 . Winter 2003 . 35–51 . 10.1177/003463730310000103 . 145656633 .
• Gathercole . Simon J. . 3 . The Earliest Manuscript Title of Matthew's Gospel (BnF Suppl. gr. 1120 ii 3 / 4) . Novum Testamentum . 54 . 3 . January 2012 . 209–235 . 10.1163/156853612X650084 . 170993197 .
• Gathercole . Simon J. . 3 . The Alleged Anonymity of the Canonical Gospels . The Journal of Theological Studies . 69 . 2 . October 2018 . 447–476 . 10.1093/jts/fly113 . 159837819 .

External links

• Faculty Page at University of Cambridge

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr Simon Gathercole . . 24 September 2019.
2. Web site: Dr Simon Gathercole . Cambridge Faculty of Divinity . 24 September 2019 . en.
3. Book: Gathercole . Simon James . After the New Perspective: Works, Justification and Boasting in Early Judaism and Romans 1-5 . 2001 . Durham University (Thesis) . Durham . 24 September 2019 . Acknowledgments.