Arthur J. Dewey
{{Short description|American theologian}}
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Arthur J. Dewey is an American teacher, writer, translator and commentator with particular distinction as a New Testament scholar and specialist on the Historical Jesus. He is a professor of Theology in the University Scholars honors department at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he began teaching in 1980.{{cite web |url=https://www.westarinstitute.org/membership/westar-fellows/fellows-directory/arthur-j-dewey/ |title=Arthur J. Dewey - Professor of Theology at Xavier University, Ohio |date=October 9, 2007 |access-date=April 26, 2019 }}
Dewey is co-founder of the Healing Deadly Memories Program, which addresses the "question of anti-Semitism in the New Testament. He has also been involved with the controversial Jesus Seminar, a group of academics dedicated to researching the factual Jesus.{{cite web|url=https://www.wcpo.com/news/insider/mythbuster-jesus-seminar-still-trying-to-separate-fact-from-fiction-in-Christianity |title=Mythbuster: Jesus Seminar still trying to separate fact from fiction in Christianity |access-date=April 26, 2016 }}
Education
Dewey holds an A.B. from Boston College, an M.Div. from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, and a Th.D. from Harvard University.
Selected works
=Thesis=
- {{cite thesis|author1-last=Dewey |author1-first=Arthur J. |title=Spirit and Letter in Paul - a thesis |type=Th.D. |publisher=Harvard University |date=1982 |oclc=8582384 }}
=Books=
- {{cite book|author1-last=Dewey |author1-first=Arthur J. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Cameron |author2-first=Ron |author2-link=Ron Cameron (biblical scholar) |title=The Cologne Mani Codex (P. Colon. inv. nr. 4780) : Concerning the origin of his body |location=Missoula, MT |publisher=Scholars Press |date=1978 |isbn=9780891303114 |oclc=5101711 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Dewey |author1-first=Arthur J. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Word in Time: A Gospel Commentary for Sundays and Major Feasts: complete three-year cycle |location=Lake Worth, FL |publisher=Sunday Publications |date=1986 |isbn=9780941850186 |oclc=15528896 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Dewey |author1-first=Arthur J. |author1-mask=3 |title=Spirit and Letter in Paul |series=Studies in the Bible and early Christianity |volume=33 |location=Lewiston, New York |publisher=Edwin Mellen Press |year=1996 |isbn=9780773497030 |oclc=246752126 }} - general publication of his Ph.D. thesis
- {{cite book |author1-last=Dewey |author1-first=Arthur J. |author1-mask=3 |title=Advent Christmas: Interpreting the Lesson of the Church Year (Proclamation Six Series; Series B) |location=Minneapolis |publisher=Fortress Press |date=1996 |isbn=9780800642150 |oclc=35147500 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/proclamation6int0000unse }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Dewey |author1-first=Arthur J. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Cupitt |author2-first=Don |author2-link=Don Cupitt |author3-last=Armstrong |author3-first=Karen |author3-link=Karen Armstrong |author4-last=Spong |author4-first=John Shelby |author4-link=John Shelby Spong |author5-last=Geering |author5-first=Lloyd |author5-link=Lloyd Geering |author6-last=Funk |author6-first=Robert W. |author6-link=Robert W. Funk |title=The Once and Future Faith |others=The Jesus Seminar held in March 2001 |location=California |publisher=Polebridge Press |date=2001 |isbn=9780944344859 |oclc=949099881 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Dewey |author1-first=Arthur J. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Authentic letters of Paul: a new reading of Paul's rhetoric and meaning: the scholars version |location=Salem, OR |publisher=Polebridge Press |date=2010 |isbn=9781598150391 |oclc=880148127 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Dewey |author1-first=Arthur J. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Funk |author2-first=Robert W. |author2-link=Robert W. Funk |title=The Gospel of Jesus : according to the Jesus Seminar |others=The Jesus Seminar |location=Salem, OR |publisher=Polebridge Press |date=2015 |isbn=9781598151589 |oclc=904399558 }}
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