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Jennifer Wright Knust

Jennifer Wright Knust

Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

The New Testament Apparatus and the Rise of the American Cold War

Journal article Philological Encounters · June 1, 2026 A New Testament apparatus criticus orders a vast material history within an array placed below a text that either prints a desired referent in the upper register or gestures toward that referent, conceptually. Relegating manuscripts to the role of data and ... Full text Open Access Cite

Love’s Limits. Love of Neighbor in the First Three Christian Centuries

Journal article Journal for Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity · 2021 Full text Open Access Cite

Marriage as a Social Good: Origen of Alexandria and John Chrysostom, Revisited

Journal article Marriage, Family, and Spirituality · 2020 As Elizabeth Clark has shown, early Christian theories of marriage spun around an ‘axiology of ‘difference’’ that employed sexual renunciation as its central axis. In the gap between an idealized marriage of the soul and Christ and the actual marriages of ... Open Access Cite

Where Did John Baptize? From Bethany to Bethabara and Back Again

Journal article Jahrbuch fur Antike und Christentum · 2020 Open Access Cite

Can a Man Commit Porneia With His Wife?

Journal article Journal of Biblical Literature · January 1, 2018 In Classical and Hellenistic Greek, apart from use by Jewish and Christian authors, {greek word presented} meant "prostitution." Different words from the same word group (built on {greek word presented}-) all had something to do with prostitution. {greek w ... Full text Open Access Cite

Review of Teaching the Historical Jesus: Issues and Exegesis, ed. Zev Garber

Journal article Review of Biblical Literature · 2016 Cite

"Who's Afraid of Canaan's Curse? Genesis 9:18-29 and the Challenge of Reparative Reading"

Journal article Biblical Interpretation · August 23, 2014 The story of Noah’s curse of his grandson Canaan (Gen. 9:18–29) is especially well suited to an interpretive style Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has labeled “paranoid reading.” Oft exploited by those invested in xenophobia and racism, this passage appears to prese ... Open Access Cite

Earth Accuses Earth: Tracing What Jesus Wrote on the Ground

Journal article Harvard Theological Review · October 2010 The story of the woman taken in adultery (John 7:53–8:11) has a long, complex history. Well-known in the Latin West, the story was neglected but not forgotten in the East. Incorporated within Late Antique and Early Medieval Gospel manuscripts, depicted in ... Full text Open Access Cite

Early Christian Re-Writing and the History of the Pericope Adulterae

Journal article Journal of Early Christian Studies · January 1, 2006 Texts, even sacred texts, are never fixed. Meaning is never stable and interpretations shift in concert with the changing concerns of those who present them. These principles are readily demonstrated by a consideration of the complex history of the pericop ... Full text Cite