Trained in New Testament studies, Dr. Lee-Barnewall's desire is to help students develop their relationship with Christ through an informed and application-oriented understanding of Scripture. She is the author of “Paul, the Stoics, and the Body of Christ”. Dr. Lee-Barnewall has published articles in New Testament Studies and Novum Testamentum and has presented papers at the national meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Society of Biblical Literature.
Books
- Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian: Reframing the Gender Debate. Grand Rapids: Baker 2016
- Paul, the Stoics, and the Body of Christ. SNTSMS 137; Cambridge University Press, 2006
- “Paul and Seneca on the Body.” In Paul and Seneca in Dialogue. Ed. David Briones and Joseph Dodson. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming
- “Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes.” Pages 217-27 in The Background of the New Testament: An Examination of the Context of Early Christianity. Ed. Joel B. Green and Lee Martin McDonald. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2013
- “Turning Kefal_h/ on Its Head: The Rhetoric of Reversal in Eph. 5:21-33.” Pages 599-614 in Christian Origins and Classical Culture: Social and Literary Contexts for the New Testament. Vol. 1 of The New Testament in Its Hellenistic Context. Ed. Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts. Leiden: Brill, 2013
- "A Call to Martyrdom: Function as Method and Message in Revelation." Novum Testamentum 40 (1998): 164-94
- "Philippians as Chiasmus: Key to the Structure, Unity and Theme Questions” (co-authored with A. Boyd Luter). New Testament Studies 41 (1995): 89-101
Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries
- “Apphia,” “Archangel,” “Augustus,” “Baptism in/with the Holy Spirit,” “Bethsaida,”, “Bride,” “Caesarea,” “Denarius,” “Erastus,” “Euodia/Euodias,” “Eutychus,” “Galilee,” “Gethsemane,” “Head,” “Levirate Law/Levirate Marriage,” “Praetorian Guard,” “Syntyche,” “Tabitha,” “Tertullus,” in the Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary. Ed. Tremper Longman III, Peter Enns, and Mark Strauss. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2013
- “Signs and Wonders” in The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization. Ed. G.T. Kurian, Oxford: Blackwell, 2012
Articles
- Review of Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes. Cultural Studies in 1 Corinthians, Kenneth E. Bailey (Downers Grove; InterVarsity, 2011). Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55 (2012): 622-24.
- Review of Being Conformed to Christ in Community: A Study of Maturity, Maturation and the Local Church in the Undisputed Pauline Epistles, James George Samra (Library of New Testament Studies 320; London: T & T Clark, 2006). Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 50 (2007): 625-26
- Review of Navigating Paul, Jouette M. Bassler (Louisville, KY: Westminster, 2007). Expository Times 119 (2008): 169
- Review of The IVP Women’s Bible Commentary (co-authored with Joanne Jung), eds. Catherine Clark Kroeger and Mary J. Evans (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2002). Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 47 (2004): 161-64
- “Whose Body? Which Membership?” Christian Reflection (2014): 11-18
- “Why is the Body of Christ Important?” Pages 72-74 in Devotions on the Greek New Testament. Eds. J. Scott Duvall and Verlyn D. Verbrugge. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012
- “The Benefits of Disciplines of Abstinence.” Biola Magazine (Fall 2012)
- “The Lord’s Supper in Paul’s Letters.” Faithlife Study Bible. Logos Bible Software, 2012
- “What Does Paul Mean by Taking the Lord’s Supper in an ‘Unworthy’ Manner?” Biola Connections (Winter 2004)
- Beauty Is Soul Deep: 180 Devotions for Growing a Meaningful Inner Life. Co-edited with D. June Hetzel. Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour, 2003
Teaching and Research Experience
- Associate Professor, Biblical and Theological Studies Department, Biola University, 1999-present
- Classes: Biblical Interpretation and Spiritual Formation, Romans, 1 Corinthians, Revelation, Evangelicals and Gender
- Adjunct Professor, Denver Seminary. Fall 2008
- Graduate Instructor, Theology Department, University of Notre Dame, Spring 1997
- Class: Biblical and Historical Foundations of Theology
- Graduate Assistant for Mary Rose D'Angelo, University of Notre Dame, 1994-1996
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