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Dr Andrew Clarke

Senior Lecturer in New Testament

MA, PhD (Cambridge)

Biography

Before moving to Aberdeen in 1995, I was the Research Librarian at Tyndale House Biblical Studies Research Library in Cambridge during that particularly interesting early phase of development in academic libraries when the benefits of locally-networked computers, CD ROM and online databases, and the internet were being explored and exploited for academic research. I am currently the Chairman of the Tyndale House Council.

Over the past few years I have been supervising research dissertations in the following areas: Paul’s use of co-authors in his letters; different perspectives on healing held by Mark, Luke and Paul; Paul’s use of metaphors for church in 1 Corinthians; Luke’s use of speeches by non-Christians in Acts; Luke’s use of the phrase ‘not my will but thine be done’; Paul’s use of phroneo in Romans and Philippians; submission within the godhead and the church in Philippians; reactions to the Roman persona in Paul, Epictetus and Valerius Maximus; Paul’s dependence on the Sermon on the Mount for his teaching about wealth/poverty; the David motif in the New Testament.

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Research Interests

My research has focused especially on the Pauline communities and the ways in which these communities differed from each other in regard to how leadership was exercised. In particular, I have sought to compare styles of leadership within each of these communities with those that were widely adopted in the dominant Greek or Roman surrounding contexts. Most recently, I have sought to distil from the Pauline texts those generic characteristics of leadership that Paul espoused – a kind of systematic theology of church leadership. In this, I was particularly interested in recent hermeneutical debates, which have been probing what agendas may have influenced Paul when he addressed issues of church leadership and what influences us in our interpretation of his statements about church leadership.

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Current Research

I am writing a commentary on 1 Corinthians for the Word Biblical Commentary series; and also exploring the nature and characteristics of the early Christian communities in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.

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Selected Publications

• Andrew D. Clarke, ‘“Do not Judge who is Worthy and Unworthy”: Clement’s Warning not to Speculate about the Rich Young Man’s Response (Mark 10.17-31)’ , Journal for the Study of the New Testament 31 (2009) pp. 447-68.
  
• Andrew D. Clarke, A Pauline Theology of Church Leadership (LNTS: London: T&T Clark, 2008).
• Andrew D. Clarke, Secular and Christian Leadership in Corinth: A Socio-Historical and Exegetical Study of 1 Corinthians 1-6 (Paternoster Biblical Monographs; Carlisle: Paternoster, 2006 [Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und Urchristentums; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993]).
• Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Equality or Mutuality? – Paul's Use of “Brother” Language’, in Peter J. Williams, Andrew D. Clarke, Peter M. Head, David Instone-Brewer (eds.), The New Testament in its First Century Setting: Essays on Context and Background in honour of B.W. Winter on his 65th Birthday (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004) pp. 151-64.
• Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Jew and Greek, Slave and Free, Male and Female: Paul’s Theology of Ethnic, Social and Gender Inclusiveness in Romans 16’, in P. Oakes (ed.), Rome in the Bible and the Early Church (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2002) pp. 103-25.
• Andrew D. Clarke, Serve the Community of the Church: Christians as Leaders and Ministers (First-Century Christians in the Graeco-Roman World; Andrew D. Clarke [editor]; Grand Rapids : Eerdmans, 2000).
• Andrew D. Clarke, ‘“Be Imitators of Me”: Paul’s Model of Leadership’, Tyndale Bulletin 49 (1998) pp. 329-60.
• Andrew D. Clarke, ‘“Refresh the Hearts of the Saints”: A Unique Pauline Context?’, Tyndale Bulletin 47 (1996) pp. 277-300.
• Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Rome and Italy', in David W.J. Gill and Conrad Gempf (editors), The Book of Acts in its Graeco-Roman Setting (The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting volume 2; Grand Rapids/Carlisle: Eerdmans/ Paternoster, 1994) pp. 455-81.
• Bruce W. Winter and Andrew D. Clarke (editors), The Book of Acts in its Ancient Literary Setting (The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting volume 1; Grand Rapids/Carlisle: Eerdmans/Paternoster, 1993).
• Andrew D. Clarke and Bruce W. Winter (editors), One God, One Lord: Christianity in a World of Religious Pluralism (2nd edition; Grand Rapids/Carlisle: Baker Book House/Paternoster, 1992).
• Andrew D. Clarke, ‘Another Corinthian Erastus Inscription’, Tyndale Bulletin 42 (1991) pp. 146-51.
• Andrew D. Clarke, ‘The Good and the Just in Romans 5:7’, Tyndale Bulletin 41 (1990) pp. 128-42.
  

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