Brian J. Wright is author of more than a dozen books, including Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus (Fortress, 2017), as well as numerous academic studies, including ones published in the Journal of Theological Studies, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Bulletin for Biblical Research, Trinity Journal, and Tyndale Bulletin. He is the founding pastor of Redeemer Community Church in Pensacola, FL. Both his academic and pastoral work have been featured on several Christian media networks, such as Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, Desiring God, and Power for Living.

Education:

PhD, Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia
ThM, Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, TX

Publications/Creative Works:

BOOKS

“Communal Reading and Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life,” in Inscriptions, Grafitti, and Documentary Papyri, vol. 10, in Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies; eds. James R. Harrison and E. Randolph Richards (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, Forthcoming).

God’s Daring Dozen Box Set 3: A Minor Prophet Series (Scotland, UK; Christian Focus, Forthcoming, 2024)

God’s Daring Dozen Box Set 2: A Minor Prophet Series (Scotland, UK; Christian Focus, 2023)

God’s Daring Dozen Box Set 1: A Minor Prophet Series (Scotland, UK; Christian Focus, 2021)

Inspired Questions: A Year’s Journey Through the New Testament (Scotland, UK; Christian Focus, December 2019)

The Rhythm of the Christian Life: Recapturing the Joy of Life Together (Abilene, TX; Leafwood, August 2019)

Communal Reading During the Time of Jesus: A Window into Early Christian Reading Practices (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017)

“Jesus as θεός: A Textual Examination,” in Revisiting the Corruption of the NT: Manuscript, Patristic and Apocryphal Evidence (ed. Daniel B. Wallace; Grand Rapids, MI; Kregel Academic, 2011): 229–266

Noted editor in A Workbook for New Testament Syntax: Companion to Basics of New Testament Syntax and Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics by Daniel B. Wallace and Grant Edwards (Grand Rapids, MI; Zondervan, 2007)

ACADEMIC ARTICLES

“The First-Century Inscription of Quintus Sulpicius Maximus: An Initial Catalogue of Lexical Parallels with the New Testament,” Bulletin of Biblical Research 27.1 (2017): 53–80

“Ancient Rome’s Daily News Publication with Some Implications for Early Christian Studies,” Tyndale Bulletin 67.1 (2016): 145–160

“Ancient Literacy in New Testament Research: Incorporating A Few More Lines of Enquiry,” Trinity Journal 36 (2015): 161–189

“Greek Syntax as a Criterion of Authenticity: A New Discussion and Proposal” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 74.1 (2012): 84–100

“From ‘God’ (Greek) to ‘God’ (Coptic): A New Discussion and Proposal Regarding John 1.1 and the Sahidic Coptic Version of the NT,” Journal of Theological Studies 62.2 (2011): 494–512

POPULAR-LEVEL PUBLICATIONS

“Here There Be Dragons! Sailing Kids through Uncharted Biblical Waters,” Dallas Theological Seminary (2023)

“The Rhythm of the Christian Life,” Deeply Rooted Magazine (2020)

“The Rhythm of the Christian Life,” Lifeway Young Adults Summer Curriculum (2020)

“A New Tool for Young Adults: Inspired Questions,” Lifeway Young Adults (2020)

“New Year, New Approach to Daily Devotions,” Dallas Theological Seminary Voice (2019)

“Questions as a New Tool for Daily Devotions,” Bible Gateway (2019)

“Inspired Questions: A New Approach to Small-Group Discussions,” Gospel Relevance (2019)

“The Most Inspiring Questions to Ask This Advent and Christmas,” Crosswalk (2019)

“A Christian without Community Is Like a Song without Melody,” Dallas Theological Seminary Magazine (2019)

“Inspired Questions: A New Approach to Prison Ministry,” Christianity Today (2019)

“All Christians Have the Same IQ,” The Gospel Coalition (2019)

“How Questions Build Christian Leadership,” Charles Stone Leadership (2019)

“What Would Jesus Ask? Four Ways to Utilize Inspired Questions,” Christianity Today (2019)

“Reading Together, Early Church Style,” Christianity Today 62.4 (2018): 62–64.

“Read the Bible with Someone Else: Four Benefits of Studying in Community,” Desiring God (2018)

“The Triumph of Christianity’s Reading Practices: How Some Faulty Assumptions Swept Biblical Scholarship,” Baptist21 (2018)

“Don’t Just Read Alone,” The Gospel Coalition (2017)

“A Bible, an Email, and a Plea for Help: With Trafficked Children in Danger, Could a Career Criminal Finally Do the Right Thing?,” Power for Living 75.4 (July 23, 2017): 1–7

“Embracing Gospel-Centeredness Behind Bars,” The Gospel Coalition (2015)

“Deuteronomy 6:4 and the Trinity: How Can Jews and Christians Both Embrace the ‘Echad’ of the Shema?,” Christian Research Journal 38.4 (2015): 8–9, 58.

“A Prison Pastor’s Advice for Parents,” The Gospel Coalition’s Christian Living Section (March 30, 2015)

“Jehovah’s Witnesses and Blood Transfusions: Their Use of Scripture in Their Blood Doctrine,” Christian Research Journal 37.5 (2014): 32–36

“Jehovah’s Witnesses and Matthew 24: ‘New Light’ or New Hermeneutic,” Christian Research Journal 36.4 (2013): 8–9, 61

“Jehovah’s Witnesses and John 1:1: New Evidence Advances the Discussion,” Christian Research Journal 35.3 (2012): 6–12

“Jesus as God: Scriptural Fact or Scribal Fantasy?” Christian Research Journal 31.4 (2008): 22–29

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Matthew T. Martens, Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal, in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Forthcoming, 2024)

Review of Benjamin P. Laird, Creating the Canon: Composition, Controversy, and the Authority of the New Testament, in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Forthcoming, 2024)

Review of Lonnie Bell, The Early Textual Transmission of John: Stability and Fluidity in Its Second and Third Century Greek Manuscripts, in Themelios 43.3 (2018): 475–476

Review of Allen Hilton, Illiterate Apostles: Uneducated Early Christians and the Literates Who Loved Them, in Themelios 43.3 (2018): 477–478

Review of David Hellholm and Dieter Sänger, eds., The Eucharist – Its Origins and Contexts: Sacred Meal, Communal Meal, Table Fellowship in Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (Volumes I–III), in Themelios 42.3 (2017): 532–533

Review of Michael Hallett, Joshua Hays, Byron Johnson, Sung Joon Jang, and Grant Duwe, The Angola Prison Seminary: Effects of Faith-Based Ministry on Identity Transformation, Desistance, and Rehabilitation, in Themelios 42.2 (2017): 433–434

Review of Gregory Bassham, ed., C. S. Lewis’s Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con, in Themelios 42.3 (2017): 545–546

Review of Alan Mugridge, Copying Early Christian Texts: A Study of Scribal Practice, in Southern Baptist Theological Journal 21.4 (2017): 187–190

Review of Dirk Rohmann, Christianity, Book-burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity, in Review of Biblical Literature 43.2 (2017): 285

Review of Patrick Schreiner, The Body of Jesus: A Spatial Analysis of the Kingdom in Matthew, in Bulletin of Biblical Research 27.2 (2017): 282–283

Review of James P. Davies, Paul among the Apocalypses?: An Evaluation of the ‘Apocalyptic Paul’ in the Context of Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature, in Bulletin of Biblical Research 27.2 (2017): 297–298

Review of Seán Freyne, The Jesus Movement and Its Expansion: Meaning and Mission, in Review of Biblical Literature (2017)

Review of Reimund Bieringer, Emmanuel Nathan, Didier Pollefeyt and Peter J. Tomson, eds., Second Corinthians in the Perspective of Late Second Temple Judaism, in Bulletin of Biblical Research 26.2 (2017): 268–287

Review of D. A. Carson, ed., The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures, in Religious Studies Review 42.4 (2016): 293

Review of Jonathan A. Draper and Clayton N. Jefford, eds., The Didache: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle in Early Christianity, in Religious Studies Review 42.3 (2016): 216

Review of Bradley W. Root, First Century Galilee: A Fresh Examination of the Sources, in Religious Studies Review 42.3 (2016): 209

Review of Samuel E. Balentine, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology, in Religious Studies Review 42.3 (2016): 207

Review of Sean A. Adams and Seth M. Ehorn, eds., Composite Citations in Antiquity: Jewish, Graeco-Roman, and Early Christian Uses, in Southern Baptist Theological Journal 20.1 (2016): 174–176

Review of Samuli Siikavirta, Baptism and Cognition in Romans 6–8: Paul’s Ethic beyond ‘Indicative’ and ‘Imperative’, in Southern Baptist Theological Journal 20.1 (2016): 179–180

Review of David Thomas and John A. Chesworth, eds., Christian-Muslim Relations, A Bibliographical History: Volume 7, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (1500-1600), in Themelios 41.2 (2016): 404–405

Review of Derek R. Brown, The God of This Age: Satan in the Churches and Letters of the Apostle Paul, in Southern Baptist Theological Journal 19.4 (2015): 139–141

Review of Emanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Qumran, Septuagint: Collected Essays, Volume 3, in Themelios 41.1 (2016): 110–111

Review of Christer Bruun and Jonathan Edmondson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, in Religious Studies Review 42.1 (2016): 38

Review of Susan I. Bubbers, A Scriptural Theology of Eucharistic Blessings, in Religious Studies Review 42.2 (2016): 112

Review of David W. Chapman and Eckhard J. Schnabel, The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus: Texts and Commentary, in Religious Studies Review 42.1 (2016): 41

Review of Peter J. Tomson and Joshua J. Schwartz, eds., Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: How to Write Their History, in Themelios 41.1 (2016): 125–126

Review of George Carraway, Christ is God over All: Romans 9:5 in the context of Romans 9–11, in Religious Studies Review 42.1 (2016): 45–46

Review of Megan K. DeFranza, Sex Difference in Christian Theology: Male, Female, and Intersex in the Image of God, in Evangelical Review of Theology 40.2 (2016): 192

Review of Ken Gnanakan, Responsible Stewardship of God’s Creation, Revised Edition, in Evangelical Review of Theology 40.1 (2016): 96

Review of Simon Gathercole, The Gospel of Thomas: Introduction and Commentary, in Themelios 40.2 (2015): 299–301

Review of Mark A. Jason, Repentance at Qumran: The Penitential Framework of Religious Experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls, in Themelios 40.2 (2015): 309–310

Review of David A. Fiensy and James Riley Strange, eds., Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods: Life, Culture, and Society, in Themelios 40.2 (2015): 297–299

Review of Paul Hartog, Polycarp’s Epistle to the Philippians and the Martyrdom of Polycarp: Introduction, Text, and Commentary, in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 58.2 (2015): 416–420

Review of Clayton N. Jefford, The Epistle to Diognetus (with the Fragment of Quadratus): Introduction, Text, and Commentary, in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 58.2 (2015): 416–420

Review of Ruth Scodel, ed., Between Orality and Literacy: Communication and Adaptation in Antiquity, Volume 10, in Religious Studies Review 41.3 (2015): 113

Review of James H. Charlesworth and Lee Martin McDonald, eds., Sacra Scriptura: How “Non-Canonical” Texts Functioned in Early Judaism and Early Christianity, in Religious Studies Review 41.2 (2015): 81

Review of Randall Buth and R. Steven Notley, eds., Language Environment of First Century Judaea, in Religious Studies Review 41.2 (2015): 71

Review of Tomas Bokedal, The Formation and Significance of the Christian Biblical Canon: A Study in Text, Ritual, and Interpretation, in Religious Studies Review 41.2 (2015): 70–1

Review of Chris Keith, Jesus against the Scribal Elite: The Origins of the Conflict, in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 57.4 (2014): 814–816

Review of Michael Kruger, The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate, in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 57.2 (2014): 458–461