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                    Articles

                    • Anders Runesson. “Skapelseverb i aktivt particip i GT: Teologiska implikationer” (“Creation Verbs in the Active Participle in the Hebrew Bible: Theological Implications”). Svensk exegetisk årsbok, 59 (1994): 7-20.
                    • Anders Runesson. “The Oldest Original Synagogue Building in the Diaspora: A Response to L. Michael White, Harvard Theological Review, 92:4 (1999): 409-33. ISSN 0017-8160.
                    • Anders Runesson. “Biblisk teologi – en fråga om spelregler En diskussion om ‘objektivitet’ och ‘konfessionalism’ i dialog med Francis Watsons Text and Truth: Redefining Biblical Theology” (“Biblical Theology – a Question about Game Rules. A Discussion of ‘Objectivity’ and ‘Confessionalism’ in Dialogue with Francis Watson’s Text and Truth: Redefining Biblical Theology”). Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, 75 (1999): 126-33. [English summary].
                    • Anders Runesson. “Bortom metod och perspektiv: Om Prof. Fridrichen och judarna” (“Beyond Methods and Perspectives: On Prof. Anton Fridrichsen and the Jews”). Nordisk Judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies 20:1-2 (1999): 115-21. [English summary].
                    • Anders Runesson. “Particularistic Judaism and Universalistic Christianity? Some Critical Remarks on Terminology and Theology.” Pages 120-44 in Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism. Volume 1 (2000). Edited by Stanley E. Porter, Matthew Brook O’Donnell, and Wendy J. Porter. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2004. ISBN 1-905048-06-8. Also published in: Studia Theologica, 54:1 (2000): 55-75.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Water and Worship: Ostia and the Ritual Bath in the Diaspora Synagogue.” Pages 115-29 in The Synagogue of Ancient Ostia and the Jews of Rome: Interdisciplinary Studies. ActaRom-4o, 57. Edited by Birger Olsson, Dieter Mitternacht, and Olof Brandt. Stockholm: Paul Åström, 2001. ISBN 91-7042-165-X
                    • Runesson, Anders. “The Synagogue at Ancient Ostia: The Building and its History from the First to the Fifth Century.” Pages 29-99 in The Synagogue of Ancient Ostia and the Jews of Rome: Interdisciplinary Studies. ActaRom-4o, 57. Edited by Birger Olsson, Dieter Mitternacht, and Olof Brandt. Stockholm: Paul Åström, 2001. ISBN 91-7042-165-X. 
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Frälsning utan gränser? Om Nya testamentet och religionsdialog” (“Salvation Without Limits? On the New Testament and Religious Dialogue”). Pages 41-55 in Hela jorden är Herrens: Olika tro sida vid sida. [All the Earth Belongs to the Lord: Different Faiths Side by Side] Religio 53. Edited by Birger Olsson. Lund: Teologiska institutionen. 2001. ISSN 0280-5723.
                    • Anders Runesson. “Från integration till marginalisering: Arkeologi som text i analysen av tidig diasporajudendom” (“From Integration to Marginalization: Archaeology as Text and the Analysis of Early Diaspora Judaism”). Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 67 (2002): 121-44 [English summary]. Also published in Collegium Biblicums årsskrift (2002): 21-40. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen.
                    • Anders Runesson. “A Monumental Synagogue from the First Century: The Case of Ostia.” Journal for the Study of Judaism, 33 (2002): 171-220. ISSN 1570-0631.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Persian Imperial Politics, the Beginnings of Public Torah Reading, and the Origins of the Synagogue.” Pages 63-89 in The Ancient Synagogue: From the Beginning to about 200 ce. Papers Presented at the International Conference at Lund University October 14-17, 2001. ConBNT, 39. Edited by Birger Olsson and Magnus Zetterholm. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2003.
                    • Anders Runesson. “The Origins of the Synagogue in Past and Present Research: Some Comments on Definitions, Theories, and Sources.” Studia Theologica 58:1 (2004): 60-76.
                    • Anders Runesson. “Rit, politik och sakral arkitektur: Om förnyelse och anpassning i den antika synagogan.” [Rituals, Politics, and Sacred Architecture: On Renewal and Adaptation in the Ancient Synagogue”] CHAOS, Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier 44 (2005), 23-38.
                    • Runesson, Anders and Sjöholm Torbjörn. “Introduktion: Heliga texter och kontextuell teologi” (“Introduction: Sacred Texts and Contextual Theology”). Pages 13-20 in Varför ser ni mot himlen? Utmaningar från den kontextuella teologin. (Why Do you Look Towards the Heaven? Challenges from the Contextual Theology). Edited by Runesson, Anders and Torbjörn Sjöholm. Stockholm: Verbum, 2005.
                    • Anders Runesson. “Kvinnligt ledarskap i den tidiga kyrkan: Några exempel och en tolkningsram” (“Women Leadership in the Early Church: Some Examples and an Interpretive Frame”). Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 82 (2006): 173-83. [English summary]. ISSN 0039-6761.
                    • Runesson Anders and Dieter Mitternacht. “Här börjar det” (“It Begins Here”). Pages 23-32 in Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Edited by Mitternacht, Dieter and Anders Runesson. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Vägar till det förflutna” (“Roads to the Past”). Pages 42-54 in Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Edited by Mitternacht, Dieter and Anders Runesson. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Kvinnor, män och makt i antiken och i de tidiga kyrkorna” (“Women, Men, and Power in Antiquity and in the Early Churches”). Pages 135-47 in Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Edited by Mitternacht, Dieter and Anders Runesson. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Kristustroende judar och avskiljandet av kristendom från judendom” (“Christ-Believing Jews and the Separation Between Christianity and Judaism”). Pages 309-35 in Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Edited by Mitternacht, Dieter and Anders Runesson. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Synagogan” (“The Synagogue”). Pages 76-79 in Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Edited by Mitternacht, Dieter and Anders Runesson. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Icke-bibliska källor” (“Non-Biblical Sources”). Pages 501-12 in Jesus och de första kristna: Inledning till Nya testamentet. (Jesus and the First Christians: An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament). Edited by Mitternacht, Dieter and Anders Runesson. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Praktisk sanning och svenskkyrklig religionsteologi” (“Praxis-oriented Definitions of Truth and the Theology of Religions of the Church of Sweden”). Pages 96-107 in Religionsteologi och religionsmöten (Theology of Religion and Interfaith Encounters). Studia Missionalia Svecana. Edited by Aasulv Lande and Carl Sundberg. Uppsala: Svenska Institutet för Missionsforskning, 2007. ISSN 1101-6701.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Architecture, Conflict, and Identity Formation: Jews and Christians in Capernaum From the 1st to the 6th Century.” Pages 231-57 in The Ancient Galilee in Interaction: Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity. Edited byJürgen Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge, Dale Martin, and. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. ISBN 978-3-16-149044-6.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Introduction.” Pages 1-19 in The Ancient Synagogue: From its Origins to 200 c.e. A Source Book. Edited by Anders Runesson, Donald D. Binder, and Birger Olsson, Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 72. Leiden: Brill, 2008.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Re-Thinking Early Jewish–Christian Relations: Matthean Community History as Pharisaic Intragroup Conflict.” Journal of Biblical Literature 127:1 (2008) 95-132.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Inventing Christian Identity: Paul, Ignatius, and Theodotius I.” Pages 59-92 in Exploring Early Christian Identity. Edited by Bengt Holmberg. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “From Where to What? Common Judaism, Pharisees, and the Changing Socio-Religious Location of the Matthean Community.” Pages 97-113 in Common Judaism: Explorations in Second Temple Judaism. Edited by Wayne McCready and Adele Reinhartz. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Behind the Gospel of Matthew: Radical Pharisees in Post-War Galilee?” Currents in Theology and Mission 37 (2010) 460-471.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Bringing Out of the Treasure What is New and Old: Trajectories in New Testament Research Today.” Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 87 (2011) 2-13.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Building Matthean Communities: The Politics of Textualization.” Pages 379-408 in Eve-Marie Becker and Anders Runesson (eds.), Mark and Matthew. Comparative Readings I: Understanding the Earliest Gospels in the First Century Setting(s). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011.
                    • Becker, Eve-Marie, and Anders Runesson. “Introduction: Studying Mark and Matthew in Comparative Perspective.” Pages 1-10 in Eve-Marie Becker and Anders Runesson (eds.), Mark and Matthew. Comparative Readings I: Understanding the Earliest Gospels in the First Century Setting(s). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Giving Birth to Jesus in the Late First Century: Matthew as Midwife in the Context of Colonisation.” Pages 301-327 in Claire Clivaz, Andreas Dettwiler, Luc Devilliers, and Enrico Norelli (eds), Infancy Gospels: Stories and Identities. WUNT; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Judging Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew: Between ‘Othering’ and Inclusion.” Pages 133-151 in Joel Willitts and Daniel M. Gurtner (eds.), Matthew’s Gospel and Early Christianity: Studies in Memory of Professor Graham Stanton. Library of New Testament Studies series; London: T & T Clark, 2011.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Was there a Christian Mission Before the Fourth Century? Problematizing Common Ideas about Early Christianity and the Beginnings of Modern Mission.” In The Making of Christianity: Conflicts, Contacts, and Constructions (edited by Magnus Zetterholm and Samuel Byrskog; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011 (forthcoming).
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Paul’s Rule in All the Ekklēsiai (1 Cor 7:17-24).” In David Rudolph and Joel Willits (eds.), Introduction to Messianic Judaism: Its Ecclesial Context and Biblical Foundations. Grand Rapids: Zondervan (forthcoming).
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Kunskap, dårskap och intighet i nytestamentlig frälsningsteologi: Jesus, Paulus och Första Johannesbrevet.” ["Knowledge, Madness, and Nothingness in New Testament Theologies of Salvation: Jesus, Paul, and First John.] In Benjamin Ekman and Henrik Rydell Johnsén (red.), Sōteria och gnōsis: Frälsning och kunskap i den tidiga kyrkan. Föreläsningar hållna vid Nordiska patristikermötet i Lund 18-21 augusti 2010. [Sōteria and Gnōsis: Salvation and Knowledge in the Early Church. Papers given at the Meeting of the Nordic Society for Patristic Studies in Lund August 18-21, 2010.] Patristica Nordica VIII. Skellefteå: Artos & Norma, 2011 (forthcoming).

                    Encyclopaedia Articles

                    • Runesson, Anders. “Judgment.” Pages 457-466 in The New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 3. Edited by Katherine Doob Sakenfeld et al. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Reading.” Page 481 in Lexikon der Bibelhermeneutik: Begriffe – Methoden – Theorien – Konzepte. Edited by Oda Wischmeyer et al. Walter de Gruyter Verlag: Berlin, 2009.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Synagogue.” Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2010. (ca. 9325 words)
                    • Runesson, Anders. "Matthew, Gospel According to." Pages 59–78 in vol. 2 of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible. Edited by M. D. Coogan. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
                    • Runesson, Anders. “Synagogue.” Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (DJG 2; a full revision of the earlier DJG. InterVarsity Press (forthcoming).

                    Reviews

                    • Runesson, Anders. Review of Neusner J., En rabbin samtalar med Jesus (A Rabbi Talks With Jesus), Svensk Kyrkotidning, 94:43-44 (1996): 494-96.
                    • Runesson, Anders and Irene von Görtz-Wrieberg. Review of Levine, L. I., The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 76:4 (2000): 200-2.
                    • Runesson, Anders. Review of Binder, D. D., Into the Temple Courts. The Place of the Synagogues in the Second Temple Period. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 78:2 (2002): 85-86.
                    • Runesson, Anders. Review of Bristow, E., (ed.), No Religion is an Island: The Nostra Aetate Dialogues. Reviews in Jewish-Christian Relations (2003:1) [http://www.cjcr.cam.ac.uk/publications/reviews/rev/03001.html].
                    • Runesson, Anders. Review of Ego, B., A. Lange and P. Pilhofer (eds.), Gemeinde ohne Tempel: Zur Substituierung und Transformation des Jerusalemer Tempels und seines Kults im Alten Testament, antiken Judentum und frühen Christentum. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 79:1 (2003): 54-55.
                    • Runesson, Anders. Review of Claußen, C., Versamlung, Gemeinde, Synagoge: Das hellenistisch-jüdische Umfeld der frühchristlichen Gemeinde. Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, 79:1 (2003): 62-63.
                    • Runesson, Anders. Review of Claußen, C., Versamlung, Gemeinde, Synagoge: Das hellenistisch-jüdische Umfeld der frühchristlichen Gemeinde. Journal for the Study of Judaism, 34:3 (2003): 312-16. [Note that this review is not identical with the one above, but include a more comprehensive discussion.]
                    • Runesson, Anders. Review of Nanos, M., The Irony of Galatians: Paul’s Letter in First-Century Context. Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 68 (2003): 221-23.
                    • Runesson, Anders. Review of John K. Riches, Conflicting Mythologies: Identity Formation in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 80:1 (2004): 40-41.
                    • Runesson, Anders. Review of Philip A. Harland, Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society. Biblica 86:1 (2005): 137-141.
                    • Runesson, Anders. Review of Matt Jackson-McCabe, ed. Jewish Christianity Reconsidered: Rethinking Ancient Groups and Texts. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007. Toronto Journal of Theology 25:1 (2009) 134-136.
                    • Runesson, Anders. Review of Morten Hørning Jensen, Herod Antipas in Galilee: The Literary and Archaeological Sources on the Reign of Herod Antipas and its Socio-Economic Impact on Galilee. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006. Toronto Journal of Theology 25:1 (2009) 136-138.
                    • Runesson, Anders. Review of Serge Ruzer, Mapping the New Testament: Early Christian Writings as a Witness for Jewish Biblical Exegesis. Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 39 (2009) 223-225.