Academia Biblica publishes doctoral dissertations on topics related to biblical studies, including questions of language, literature, history, archaeology, society, history of thought, and cognate studies. Its purpose is to bring distinguished new works of academic scholarship into the scholarly forum, to provide emerging scholars an opportunity for publishing their dissertations, and to offer models for subsequent dissertations.

Academia Biblica continues the earlier SBL Dissertation Series.


For more information about publishing a book in this series, contact the appropriate series editor below:

Steven L. McKenzie (Old Testament/Hebrew Bible)

Billie Jean Collins ( New Testament)

Peter in the Gospel of John by Bradford Blaine, 2007, SBLAcBib 27	Paperback
The Jubilee Transformation: From Social Welfare to Hope of Restoration to Eschatological Salvation Robin J. DeWitt Knauth, 2007, SBLAcBib 26
Up the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social-Location Trajectory Analysis by Byron G. Curtis, 2006, SBLAcBib 25	Paperback
Hierarchy, Unity, and Imitation: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Power Dynamics in Paul's Letter to the Philippians by Joseph A. Marchal, 2006, SBLAcBib 24	Paperback
Washing in Water: Trajectories of Ritual Bathing in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature by Jonathan D. Lawrence, 2006, SBLAcBib 23	Paperback
Baptism on Account of the Dead (1 Cor 15:29) by Michael F. Hull, 2005, SBLAcBib 22	Paperback
Women in the Damascus Document by Cecilia Wassen, 2005, SBLAcBib 21	Paperback
Hosea 2: Metaphor and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective by Brad E. Kelle, 2005, SBLAcBib 20	Paperback
The Background and Content of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors by Stephen Finlan, 2004, SBLAcBib 19	Paperback
The Christ Is Jesus: Metamorphosis, Possession, and Johannine Christology by Pamela E. Kinlaw, 2005, SBLAcBib 18	Paperback
The King as Exemplar: The Function of Deuteronomy's Kingship Law in the Shaping of the Book of Psalms by Jamie A. Grant, 2004, SBLAcBib 17	Paperback
Godly Fear: The Epistle to the Hebrews and Greco-Roman Critiques of Superstition by Patrick Gray, 2003, SBLAcBib 16	Paperback
Secondary Parallelism: A Study of Translation Technique in LXX Proverbs by Gerhard Tauberschmidt, 2004, SBLAcBib 15	Paperback
Where to Live: The Hermeneutical Significance of Paul's Citations from Scripture in Galatians by Andrew H. Wakefield, 2003, SBLAcBib 14	Paperback
Locating Paul: Places of Custody as Narrative Settings in Acts 21-28 by Matthew L. Skinner, 2003, SBLAcBib 13	Paperback
Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of 1200-539 B.C.E. by Lawrence J. Mykytiuk, 2004, SBLAcBib 12	Paperback
Of Dead Kings and Dirges: Myth and Meaning in Isaiah 14:4b-21 by R. Mark Shipp, 2002, SBLAcBib 11	Paperback
The Significance of Parallels between 2 Peter and Other Early Christian Literature by Michael J. Gilmour, 2002, SBLAcBib 10	Paperback
The Disciples in Narrative Perspective: The Portrayal and Function of the Matthean Disciples by Jeannine K. Brown, 2002, SBLAcBib 9	Paperback
The Earth Mourns: Prophetic Metaphor and Oral Aesthetic by Katherine M. Hayes, 2002, SBLAcBib 8	Paperback
Developments in Genre between Post-Exilic Penitential Prayers and the Psalms of Communal Lament by Richard J. Bautch, 2003, SBLAcBib 7	Paperback
Ingesting Jesus: Eating and Drinking in the Gospel of John by Jane S. Webster, 2003, SBLAcBib 6	Paperback
Thomas and Tatian: The Relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron by Nicholas Perrin, 2002, SBLAcBib 5	Paperback
The Role and Function of Repentance in Luke-Acts by Guy D. Nave Jr., 2002, SBLAcBib 4	Paperback
The Problem of Markan Genre: The Gospel of Mark and the Jewish Novel by Michael E. Vines, 2002, SBLAcBib 3	Paperback
Symbol and Rhetoric in Ecclesiastes: The Place of Hebel in Qohelet's Work by Douglas B. Miller, 2002, SBLAcBib 2	Paperback
Reading a New Testament Document Ethically by Elna Mouton, 2002, SBLAcBib 1	Paperback
Gaps in the numbering of volumes in the series indicate that a title is out of print or has been accepted for publication but not yet published.