Daniel Harlow
- Dr. Daniel Harlow
- Professor
- Religion
- Hiemenga Hall 373 (Map)
- (616) 526-6538
- daniel.harlow@calvin.edu
Education
- Oral Roberts University, BA (1984) summa cum laude
- Princeton Theological Seminary, MDiv (1987) first in class
- University of Notre Dame, MA (1991)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PhD Study (1991-92) as a United States Fulbright Scholar
- University of Notre Dame, PhD (1994)
Courses
- Biblical Literature and Theology (121)
- Jesus in the Gospels and Acts (221)
- The Gospels and Letters of John (222)
- Paul's Letters (223)
- Revelation and General Letters (224)
- Judaism in the Time of Jesus (321)
- Studies in Christian Origins (323)
- Religion Seminar (396)
Academic interests
- History and literature of Early Judaism
- The Jewish context and character of the New Testament
- Christianity in the second through the fourth centuries
- Evolutionary Science and the Christian Faith
Publications
“3 Baruch,” in The Routledge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions,” ed. Eric Orlan et al. (London: Routledge, 2016), 133.
“Anti-Christian Polemic in the Apocalypse of Abraham: Jesus as a Pseudo-Messiah in Apoc. Ab. 29.3–14.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, vol. 22, no. 3 (2013): 167–183.
Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview. Edited with John J. Collins. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012.
“Early Judaism and Early Christianity", in Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview. Edited with John J. Collins. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012.
“Born of Fornication: The Jewish Charge of Jesus’ Illegitimacy in John, Celsus, and Origen,” in Portraits of Jesus: Studies in Christology, ed. Susan E. Meyers. [Festschrift for Harold W. Attridge.] Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, Series 2, no. 321. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2012, 335–353.
The “Other” in Second Temple Judaism: Essays in Honor of John J. Collins. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011. Edited with Karina Martin Hogan, et al.
“Idolatry and Alterity: Israel and the Nations in the Apocalypse of Abraham,” in The ‘Other’ in Second Temple Judaism: Essays in Honor of John J. Collins, ed. Daniel C. Harlow, Karina Martin Hogan, et al. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011, 302–330.
The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism. Edited with John J. Collins. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.
Eight articles [ca. 13,000 words combined] among the A–Z entries in The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism: “Abraham, Apocalypse of”; “Ascent to Heaven”; “Baruch, Third Book of”; “Demons and Exorcism” [with Esther Eshel]; “Fortresses and Palaces” [with Adam Marshak]; “Joseph, Prayer of”; “Messianic Apocalypse (4Q521)”; “Phoenix.”
“After Adam: Reading Genesis in an Age of Evolutionary Science.” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, vol. 62, no. 3 (September 2010): 179–195.
“Synoptic Gospels,” in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, vol. 5, ed. Erwin Fahlbusch et al.: Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2008, 276–278.
“Creation according to Genesis: Literary Genre, Cultural Context, Theological Truth,” Christian Scholars Review, vol. 37, no. 2 (2008): 163–198.
“The Dead Sea Scrolls,” in Dictionary for the Theological Interpretation of the Bible, ed. Kevin Vanhoozer et al. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005, 159–163.
“The Jewish Context of the New Testament,” in Dictionary for the Theological Interpretation of the Bible, ed. Kevin Vanhoozer et al. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005, 373–380.
“How Has Mel Offended? Scripture and the Catholic Tradition in The Passion of the Christ,” Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, vol. 19, no. 4 (April 2004): 14–19.
“Hebrew Scriptures in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible, ed. James D. G. Dunn and John Rogerson. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, 942–949.
“The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament,” in Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible, ed. James D. G. Dunn and John Rogerson. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, 1577–1586.
“The Christianization of Early Jewish Pseudepigrapha: The Case of 3 Baruch,” Journal for the Study of Judaism, vol. 32, no. 4 (2001): 416–444.
The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity. Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha, vol. 12. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.
Book review of 3 Baruch: Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch, by Alexander Kulik. Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010) in Review of Biblical Literature, vol. 9 (September 2012).
Book review of Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys, edited by John J. Collins and Michael Fishbane (Albany: State University Press of New York, 1995) in Journal of Religion, vol. 76, no. 4 (1996): 670–671.
Book review of Jewish Apocalyptic and Its History, by Paolo Sacchi (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) in Religious Studies Review, vol. 24, no. 2 (April 1998): 207.
Book review of Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses, by Martha Himmelfarb (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) in Journal of Religion, vol. 75, no.1 (1995): 108–109.
Book review of The Shorter Letters of Paul, by Karl P. Donfried and I. Howard Marshall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) in Journal of Religion, vol. 75, no. 3 (1995): 410–411.
Professional associations
Society of Biblical Literature
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