New Testament Background

General

  • ‘The Roman Empire as a context for the New Testament’, in Stanley E. Porter (ed.), Handbook to Exegesis of the New Testament (New Testament Tools and Studies 25; Leiden: Brill, 1997), 389–406. [ISSN 0077-8842. ISBN 90 04 09921 2].
  • ‘Behind the classical faÁade; local religions of the Roman Empire’, in A.D. Clarke & B.W. Winter (eds.), One Lord, One God in a World of Religious Pluralism (Cambridge: Tyndale House / Cambridge University Press, 1991 and 1992), 72-87 [ISBN 0 9518356 0 2]; One God, One Lord: Christianity in a World of Religious Pluralism (Grand Rapids: Baker, 19922), 85-100. [ISBN 0-9518356-2-9]

Acts

Consulting editor (with Prof. I. Howard Marshall, University of Aberdeen)

The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans / Carlisle: Paternoster)

  • Vol. 1: The Book of Acts in its Ancient Literary Setting, Bruce W. Winter and Andrew D. Clarke (eds.) (1993). [ISBN 0-8028-2433-1; 0-85364-563-9]
  • Vol. 2: The Book of Acts in its Graeco-Roman Setting, David W.J. Gill and Conrad Gempf (eds.) (1994). [ISBN 0-8028-2434-X; 0-85364-564-7]
  • Vol. 3: The Book of Acts and Paul in Roman Custody, Brian Rapske (1994). [ISBN 0-8028-2435-8; 0-85364-565-5]
  • Vol. 4: The Book of Acts in its Palestinian Setting, Richard Bauckham (ed.) (1995). [ISBN 0-8028-2436-6; 0-85364-566-3]
  • Vol. 5: The Book of Acts in its Diaspora Setting, Irina Levinskaya (1996). [ISBN 0-85364-567-1

 

  • Edited by David W.J. Gill and Conrad Gempf. The Book of Acts in its Graeco-Roman Setting, The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting vol. 2 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans / Carlisle: Paternoster, 1994). 627 pp. [70 pp. by DG]. Co-authored ‘Preface’. Authored the following chapters, ‘Acts and Roman Religion: A. Religion in a local setting’ (pp. 79-92), ‘Acts and urban Èlites’ (pp. 105-118), ‘Macedonia’ (pp. 397-417) and ‘Achaia’ (pp. 433-453).[ISBN 0-8028-2434-X; 0-85364-564-7]
  • ‘Acts and Roman policy in Judaea’, in R. Bauckham (ed.), The Book of Acts in its Palestinian Setting, The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting vol. 4 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans / Carlisle: Paternoster, 1995), 15-26. [ISBN 0-8028-2436-6; 0-85364-566-3]
  • ‘Paul’s travels through Cyprus (Acts 13:4-12)’, Tyndale Bulletin 46 (1995), 219-28. [ISSN 0082-7118]

1 Corinthians

  • Gill, D. W. J., and M. V. Hubbard. 1 & 2 Corinthians. Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007). [ISBN 9780310278221] [Publisher]
  • ‘1 Corinthians’, in The Zondervan Bible Backgrounds Commentary vol. 3: Romans to Philemon (consulting editor, Clinton E. Arnold) (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 100-93. [ISBN 0 310 21808 X] [Publisher]
  • ‘Erastus the aedile’, Tyndale Bulletin 40.2 (1989), 293-301. [ISSN 0082-7118]
  • ‘The importance of Roman portraiture for head coverings in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16’, Tyndale Bulletin 41.2 (1990), 245-60. [ISSN 0082-7118]
  • 'The meat-market at Corinth (1 Corinthians 10:25)’, Tyndale Bulletin 43.2 (1992), 389-93. [ISSN 0082-7118]
  • ‘Corinth: a Roman colony in Achaea’, Biblische Zeitschrift 37 (1993), 259-64. [ISSN 0006-2014]
  • ‘In search of the social Èlite in the Corinthian church’, Tyndale Bulletin 44 (1993), 323-37. [ISSN 0082-7118]
  • Review of A.D. Clarke, Secular and Christian Leadership in Corinth: a Socio-Historical and Exegetical Study of 1 Corinthians 1-6 (Leiden: Brill, 1993), in Journal of Theological Studies 45.2 (1994), 676-79. [ISSN 0022-5185]

Titus

  • ‘A saviour for the cities of Crete: the Roman background to the epistle of Titus’, in P.J. Williams, Andrew D. Clarke, Peter M. Head and David Instone-Brewer (eds.), The New Testament in its first century setting. Essays on context and background in honour of B.W. Winter on his 65th birthday (Grand Rapids and Cambridge: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004), 220-30.

Reference works

  • ‘Roman political system’, ‘Seleucids and Antiochids’, and ‘Taxation, Greco-Roman’, in Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter, eds. Dictionary of New Testament background (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2000), pp. 995-99, 1092-93, 1161-63. [ISBN 0830817808]. Also available on CD-ROM: The Essential IVP Reference Collection (Leicester: IVP, 2001) [ISBN 0851110924]
  • ‘Mystery religions’, in C. Campbell-Jeck and G. J. McGrath (eds.), New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics (Leicester: IVP, 2006), 466-68.
  • 'Achaia’, ‘Aegean’, ‘Antioch (Pisidian)’, ‘Athens’, ‘Baalbek’, ‘Cilicia’, ‘Cos’, ‘Crete’, ‘Epimenides’, ‘Galatia’, ‘Greece’, ‘Macedonia’, ‘Pontus’, in The New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006-).
  • ‘Jews under Roman rule: the province of Judea’, ‘The city of Athens’, ‘Roman rule, Greek culture’, ‘The city of Rome’, ‘The city of Corinth’, ‘The city of Ephesus’, in P. &. D. Alexander (eds.), The Lion Handbook to the Bible (3rd ed.; Oxford: Lion Publishing, 1999), 534–35, 659–60, 670–73, 684–85, 696–97, 716–17 [ISBN 0 7459 3870 1]
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