John Squires

BA, BD, MA, PhD Vice Principal (Academic), Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies: NT
Phone:
02 8838 8930

John Squires was himself a student at UTC in the late 1970s, and was ordained in Australia in 1980. He served in a Uniting Church parish in the Illawarra region before undertaking doctoral studies at Yale University. While studying in the USA, he served as a minister to a small rural congregation in the United Methodist Church and was an associate minister in a suburban congregation of the United Churches of Christ. On returning to Australia, he served in a Uniting Church parish in the eastern suburbs of Sydney and taught biblical studies part time at Sydney University. He moved to become a faculty member of UTC in 1990. His teaching focuses on the New Testament books within their literary, cultural, historical and social contexts.

One of John's recent projects has been collaboration with his wife, Elizabeth Raine, in the development and presentation of a series of Biblical Culture Days. These are full-day immersions in the culture of the biblical periods, using music, eating, dance, craft activities, hearing stories, and the experience of community to help participants imagine the world within which the biblical texts were created.

John is also interested is Jewish-Christian relationships, and he is a member of the Uniting Church’s national dialogue group with the Jewish community.

  • Publications

     

    Books

    The plan of God in Luke-Acts, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 76, Cambridge University Press, 1993
     
    Steps on the Way: Collected Essays on the partings of the ways, United Theological College, 1996
     
    At table with Luke, UTC Bible Studies no. 2; Sydney: UTC Publications, 2000

    The Way of Jesus. An introduction to the books of the New Testament. Co-written with Elizabeth Raine. Peterborough: Epworth, forthcoming (2010).


    Edited books

    Prayer and Thanksgiving: essays in honour of Graham Hughes (ed. W.W. Emilsen and J.T. Squires; UTC Publications, 2003)

    Validating Violence – Violating Faith? Interpreting Scriptural Texts of Violence (ed. W.W. Emilsen and J.T. Squires; Melbourne, ATF Theology Series, 2008)  

     

     

    Commentary

    “The Acts of the Apostles”, in Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible, ed. J. Rogerson and J.D.G. Dunn; Eerdmans, 2003. 

     

     

    Journal articles and chapters

     

    “Hellenistic Historiography and Philosophy in Josephus' account of Jewish History”,  Menorah 4 (1990) 148-157
     
    “Early Christian Understanding of the Four Evangelists' Reasons for Writing their Gospels”, Interchange 50 (1993) 34-38
     
    “The Authority of the Bible in Ethical Decision-Making”, Trinity Occasional Papers 13 (1994) 32-40
     
    “In the Shadow of the Shoah”, Ministry vol.4 no.3 (1994) pages 4-6
     
    “The Mission Myth” (with Rev. E. Raine), Uniting Church Studies 3 (1997) 30-47
     
    “The Function of Acts 8:4-12:25”, New Testament Studies 44 (1998) 608-617
     
    “The plan of God in Acts”, pp.19-39 in Witness to the Gospel: the Theology of the Book of Acts (ed. I.H. Marshall and D. Peterson), Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998
     
    “Fate and Freewill in Hellenistic Histories and Luke-Acts”, pp.131-137 in Ancient History in the Modern University vol.2 (ed. T.W. Hillard, R.A.Kearsley, C.E.V. Nixon, A.M. Nobbs), Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998
     
    “Peter at Pentecost: a model for leadership in the Christian community”, Uniting Church Studies 6 (2000) 20-34
     
    “Prayers and Thanksgivings in Romans”, in Prayer and Thanksgiving: essays in honour of Graham Hughes (ed. W.W. Emilsen and J.T. Squires; UTC Publications, 2003)
     
    “Singing, Streaking, Shocking: reading the New Testament with a youth hermeneutic”, Uniting Church Studies 10 (2004) 36—52
     
    “The Gospel according to Luke”, in Cambridge Companion to the Gospels (ed. S.C. Barton; Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 158-81

    “Violence in the Synoptic Traditions”, with Elizabeth Raine, in Validating Violence – Violating Faith? Interpreting Scriptural Texts of Violence. Edited by W.W. Emilsen and J.T. Squires. Melbourne, ATF Theology Series, 2008.  

    “Christians relating to Jews: key issues in public statements”, Journal of Ecumenical Studies 44 (2009) 180–202

    "Interpreting Galatians 3:27-28 within the Uniting Church: A Relational and Contextual Perspective", Uniting Church Studies 15 (2009)


Last modified by Ben Myers on December 08, 2009
John Squires, Vice Principal, Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies: NT

John Squires, Vice Principal, Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies: NT