Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Recommendations for Books About "Spirit" (Roman)-In Process

Here are some books/publications I own. I'm not going to put them in alphabetical order due to time constraints, but some of these might be helpful for the study of pneumatology:

George Johnston, The Spirit-Paraclete in the Gospel of John. Cambridge UP, 1970.

Cornelis Bennema, The Power of Saving Wisdom: An Investigation of Spirit and Wisdom in Relation to the Soteriology of the Fourth Gospel. Mohr/Siebeck, 2002. 

Roberto Pereyra, "The Holy Spirit in the Letters of Paul," DavarLogos XIII, 2 (2014): 5-24.

John R. Levison, Filled With the Spirit. Eerdmans, 2009. 

Pieter De Vries, “The Relationship between the Glory of YHWH and the Spirit of YHWH in Ezekiel 33-48,” OTE 28/2 (2015): 326-350. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2015/v28n2a7

Gordon D. Fee, God's Empowering presence: the Holy Spirit in the letters of Paul. Hendrickson, 1994.

Gitte Buch-Hansen, »It is the Spirit that Gives Life«: A Stoic Understanding of Pneuma in John’s Gospel. De Gruyter, 2010.

James A. Davis, Wisdom and Spirit: An Investigation of 1 Corinthians 1.18-3.20 Against the Background of Jewish Sapiential Traditions in the Greco-Roman Period. UPA, 1984.

Frank Yin-Chao Lin, "The Significance of the Spirit of Adoption to Christian Life: An Exegetical Study of Romans 8:12-30." Ph.D. Diss., 2017.

Marie E. Isaacs, The Concept of Spirit: A Study of Pneuma in Hellenistic Judaism and its Bearing on the New Testament. H. Charlesworth and Co., 1976.

Anthony Briggman, Irenaeus of Lyons and the Theology of the Holy Spirit. Oxford UP, 2012.

JoAnn Davidson, "Power or Person: Nature of the Holy Spirit" (2016). Faculty Publications. 864. https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/864

John R. Levison, The Spirit in First-Century Judaism. Brill, 2002.

2 comments:

Roman said...

Thanks this is great, espesially the Levison volume which seems to be a broad stroke.

The Pieter de Vries article is found here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283237795_The_relationship_between_the_glory_of_YHWH_and_the_spirit_of_YHWH_in_Ezekiel_33-48

this one looks super interesting.

I've recently read some books by the Scholar Troels Enberg-Pederson who argues for a stoic understanding of Paul and John, and focuses especailly on the Stoic notion of Pneuma, I learned a lot about stoic metaphysics from his work (ultimately I think his argument is too limited, but it's still certianly worth reading). Of what you've read has any work attemted and accomplished a plausible metaphysical understanding of spirit in a way that makes sense of the relevant texts?

Edgar Foster said...

You're welcome, Roman. I like what I've read in Marie Isaacs and Buch-Hansen when I think of Stoicism. Doesn't mean that I agree with everything they've written but just think they do a good job handling the texts IMO.