Benjamin Sargent

Writing

Books

  • Psalms 1-41 (Hodder Bible Commentary; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2026), forthcoming
  • “We Love the Prophets”: The Nature and Significance of Ignatius of Antioch’s use of Jewish Scripture (Library of New Testament Studies 702: London: Bloomsbury, 2026).
  • Written for Our Learning: The Single Meaning of Scripture in Christian Theology (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2016).
  • Written to Serve: The Use of Scripture in 1 Peter (Library of New Testament Studies 547; London: T & T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2015).
  • David being a Prophet: The Contingency of Scripture upon History in the New Testament (Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 207; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014).
  • Day by Day: The Rhythm of the Bible in the Book of Common Prayer (AF 4; London: Latimer Trust, 2012).
  • As it is Written: Interpreting the Bible with Boldness (LS 75; London: Latimer Trust, 2011).

Articles and Book Chapters

  • ‘“Such a thing should not be done in Israel”: The Theology of Abuse in 2 Samuel 13’, Theology 130 (2027), forthcoming.
  • ‘The Path of the Storm in Psalm 29’, Expository Times 137.7 (2026), 301-307.
  • ‘Recent developments in the study of Ignatius of Antioch’, Evangelical Quarterly 95.2 (2024), 153-161.
  • ‘The Relation of 1 Peter to the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch’, Biblica 105 (2024), 602-607
  • ‘Neither Jew nor Greek: Ignatius of Antioch’s use of Scripture and the “Parting(s) of the Ways”’, Novum Testamentum 65.2 (2023), 240-255.
  • ‘Dreaming with Scripture: Revisiting the Beale-Moyise Debate’, in The Scriptures in the Book of Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature (LNTS 634; ed. S. Smith and S. E. Docherty; London: Bloomsbury, 2023).
  • ‘The Bishop of Your Souls: The Priestly Nature of the Church and its Leaders in 1 Peter’, The Global Anglican 136 (2022), 118-125
  • ‘The Typological Interpretation of Scriptural Quotations in the New Testament: A Test Case for the Bible in the Academy’, in The Exegetical and Ethical: The Bible and the Academy in the Public Square: Essays for the Occasion of Professor John Barton’s 70th Birthday (Biblical Interpretation Series, 197; ed. H. Clifford and M. Daffern; Leiden: Brill, 2022), 162-171.
  • ‘Not for Shameful Gain: A Petrine Theology of Safeguarding’, Theology 124 (2021), 165-172.
  • ‘New Directions in Early Christian Hermeneutics and Distanciation: Mind the Gap’, Theology (2017), 424-431.
  • ‘The Ghosts of the Past: Hermeneutical Reflections on Historical Criticism within a Shared Conversation on Human Sexuality’, Expository Times 128.2 (2016), 72-78.
  • ‘Using or Abusing the Bible: The Hermeneutics of American Literary Pragmatism’, Churchman 130:1 (2016), 11-20.
  • ‘The Exegetical Middah דבר הלמד מענינו and the New Testament’, Novum Testamentum 57.4 (2015), 413-417.
  • ‘“Interpreting Homer from Homer”: Aristarchus of Samothrace and the Notion of Scriptural Authorship in the New Testament’, Tyndale Bulletin 65.1 (2014), 125-139.
  • ‘“The coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they hope”: The Sea and Eschatology in Deutero-Isaiah’, Expository Times 126.3 (2014), 122-130.
  • ‘Biblical Hermeneutics and the Zurich Reformation’, Evangelical Quarterly 86.4 (2014), 325-342.
  • ‘Chosen through Sanctification (1 Pet 1,2 and 2 Thess 2,13): The Theology or Diction of Silvanus?’ Biblica 94.1 (2013), 117-120.
  • ‘The Narrative Substructure of 1 Peter’, Expository Times 124.10 (2013), 485-490.
  • ‘Christian Leadership in the Acts of the Apostles,’ Churchman 127.3 (2013), 221-230.
  • ‘John Milbank and biblical hermeneutics: the end of the historical-critical method?’ Heythrop Journal 52:2 (2012), 253-263.
  • ‘Proceeding beyond isolation: bringing Milbank, Habermas and Ockham to the interfaith table’ Heythrop Journal 51.5 (2010), 819-830.
  • ‘One meaning or many? A Study in New Testament Interpretation of Old Testament Texts’, Churchman 124:4 (2010), 357-365.
  • ‘John 4:1-42 and the clarity of the Bible’, Churchman 123:3 (2009), 226-234.
  • ‘The dead letter? Psalm 119 and the spirituality of the Bible’, Evangelical Quarterly 81:2 (2009), 99-115.

Articles in progress or in the process of peer-review:

  • ‘Running to the Altar: The real ecclesiology of Ignatius of Antioch’
  • ‘Ignatius of Antioch’s Trees’
  • ‘Ad Fontes: Is it still possible to separate a text from its history of interpretation?’