Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies; Founding Fellow, John William Wevers Institute of Septuagint Studies; Member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the International Society of Septuagint and Cognate Studies.
Publications
Current Book Projects
Preparing a Commentary on Greek Exodus for the series, The Society of Biblical Literature Commentary on the Septuagint (SBLCS), sponsored by the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS).
Preparing the Baylor Handbook on the Greek Text of Exodus.
Preparing a Monograph on Methodologies for Septuagint Exegesis.
Preparing a “Theology of Biblical Leadership” in collaboration with Dr. Don Chang.
Books
Perkins, Larry J. The Art of Kubernēsis (1 Corinthians 12:28): Leading as the Church Board Chairperson. Wipf & Stock. 2019
Perkins, Larry J. The Pastoral Letters. A Handbook on the Greek Text. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press. 2017
Book Chapters
“Pauline Interpreter’: Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus,” The Miraculous and the Biblical Traditions. Ed. Graham H. Twelftree. Brill, forthcoming.
“A Reappraisal of the Composite Quotation in Mark 1:2.” Festscrift in honour of Karen Jobes, forthcoming.
“ἐγώ εἰμι/ἐγώ Variation in Rendering Certain Hebrew Verbless Clauses in Greek Exodus.” Festschrift, forthcoming)
“ἐγώ εἰμι/ἐγώ Variation in Rendering Certain Hebrew Verbless Clauses in Greek Exodus, in Like Nails Firmly Fixed (Qoh 12 11): Essays on the Text and Language of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, Presented to Peter J. Gentry on the Occasion of his Retirement. Contributions to Biblical and Exegetical Theology 115. Ed. Phillip S. Marshall, John D. Meade, and Jonathan Kiel Peeters. 2024.
Yahweh’s κατοικητήριον (Exod 15:13, 16-18): The Nature of Yahweh’s Relationship to the Land of Canaan in Greek Exodus,” in Die Septuaginta – Themen, Manuskripte, Wirkungen 7. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 19,–22. Juli 2018. Ed. Eberhard Bons, Michaela Geiger, Frank Ueberschaer, Marcus Sigismund, and Martin Meiser, WUNT 444; Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2020b, 315-327.
“Discerning Diaspora Theology for a Diaspora People in Old Greek Exodus: Issues of Method and Possible Motifs.” In Septuagint Theology and Its Reception. Stellenbosch Congress on the Septuagint 2022. SCS 78. Ed. Johann Cook, Wolfgang Kraus and Martin Rösel. (Atanta: SBL, 2024), 181-216. (Stellenbosch Conference, 2022).
“Divine Distinctiveness in Greek Exodus (With Special Ficus on the Plague Narrative),” in The Septuagint South of Alexandria. Essays on the Greek Translations and Other Ancient Versions of the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa (LXXSA), ed. Johann Cook and Gideon R. Katzé. VTS 193; Leiden: Brill, 2022, 262-78.
Perkins, Larry J. “VIII. People and Covenant.” Handbuch zur Septuaginta LXX.H Band 5. Die Theologie der Septuaginta. Hans Ausloos and Bénédicte Lemmelijn, eds. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2020, pages 399-502.
Theologie der Septuaginta. Hans Ausloos and Bénédicte Lemmelijn, eds. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2020, pages 399-502.
Theologie der Septuaginta. Hans Ausloos and Bénédicte Lemmelijn, eds. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2020, pages 399-502.
“‘Drawn from the Water’: A Commentary on the Old Greek Text of Exodus 2:1-10.” Pages 69-94 in The SBL Commentary on the Septuagint. An Introduction. Edited by Dirk Büchner. (SBLSCS 67; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017), 69-94.
“Israel’s Military Characterization in Greek Exodus,” in Die Septuaginta – Orte und Intentionen 5, Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX,D), Wuppertal 24-27. Juli 2014. Edited Siegfried Kreuzer, Martin Meiser and Marcus Sigismund; WUNT 361; Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016; 550-563.
Articles
“Hebraisms and the Text-Linguistic Character of Greek Exodus – a Reappraisal.” CSBS papers, forthcoming.
Notes on Pastor Epistles.” The Greek New Testament Study Bible. Zondervan Academic, 2025.
“Reigning in Life” (Rom. 5:17) for the Good of Humanity and Creation. Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis – A Response Based on a Christian Worldview (Theological Evaluation of B. Wray’s Generation Dread). www.nimer.ca (Fall, 2024).
“Gospel Literacy, Evangelism, and the Average Believers” Northwest Institute for Ministry Education Research. www.nimer.ca (Fall, 2022). Peer reviewed.
“Renderings of Paranymous Infinitive Constructions in OG Exodus and Implications for Defining the Character of the Translation,” HTS Theological Studies, 78(1), 2022, 1-8; Special Collection: Septuagint and Textual Studies, sub-edited by Johann Cook (Stellenbosch University).
“’Image of God’ Theology in the New Testament and its Implications for Church Leadership.” Northwest Institute for Ministry Education Research. www.nimer.ca (Spring, 2022). Peer reviewed.
“Atonement in 1 Peter – Reflections on Isaiah 53.” Northwest Institute for Ministry Education Research. www.nimer.ca (Fall, 2021). Peer reviewed.
“Deep Gospel Must Be Full Gospel – Reflections on Matthew’s Vision of Gospel Reality in the Light of Jim Belcher’s Call for ‘Deep Gospel’.” Northwest Institute for Ministry Education Research. www.nimer.ca (Fall 2021). Peer reviewed.
“Discerning ‘The Spirit’ in Mk. 2:8; 8:12 and 14:38.” Northwest Institute for Ministry Education Research. www.nimer.ca (Spring, 2021). Peer reviewed.
Perkins, Larry and Spencer Elliott. “the Use of οἰκία/οἶκος in Greek Exodus. An Attempt to Understand Principles of Lexical Variation in Greek Exodus,” JSCS 54(2021): 111-27.
“ἀκούειν/είσακούειν (שמע) in Greek Exodus,” JSCS 53(2020): 43-65.
“Drinking It New in the Kingdom of God (Mark 14:25) – An Assertion of Ownership?” Northwest Institute for Ministry Education Research. www.nimer.ca (Fall, 2020). Peer reviewed.
“Yahweh’s κατοικητήριον (Exod 15:13, 16-18): The Nature of Yahweh’s Relationship to the Land of Canaan in Greek Exodus,” in Die Septuaginta – Themen, Manuskripte, Wirkungen 7. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 19,–22. Juli 2018. Ed. by Eberhard Bons, Michaela Geiger, Frank Ueberschaer, Marcus Sigismund, and Martin Meiser; WUNT 444; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020b, 315-327.
“The Greek Translator(s’)’s Rendering of אלהים,” CBQ 82.1 (January 2020a): 17-37.
“Observations on the Plague Narrative in Greek Exodus: Strategies Used by the Translator to Shape the Narrative,” JSCS 52(2019): 73-90.
“Mark 13:14 – A Cryptic Prophecy of the Messiah’s Death?.” Northwest Institute for Ministry Education Research. www.nimer.ca (Spring, 2020). Peer reviewed.
“New Testament Greek Terms and Mark’s Gospel: Hermeneutic Inquiries.” Northwest Institute for Ministry Education Research. www.nimer.ca (Fall, 2019). Peer reviewed.
“The Greek Translator’s Portrayal of Aaron in Exodus 32,” JSCS 50 (2017): 134-54.
“‘Drawn from the Water’: A Commentary on the Old Greek Text of Exodus 2:1-10.” Pages 69-94 in The SBL Commentary on the Septuagint. An Introduction. Edited by Dirk Büchner. SBLSCS 67; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017.
“Exodus Section 2.4.1.2.: Septuagint. For the Textual History of the Bible, ed. By A. Lange and E. Tov. Leiden: Brill, 2017, 135-142.
“Deuteronomy in Greek Translation,” in The Companion to the Septuagint, edited by James Aitken (T & T Clark, 2015), 68-85
“The Translation of משׁכן/אהל מועד and שׁכן in Greek Exodus,” JSCS 48(2015): 8-26.
Reviews
Meiser, Martin. The Septuagint and Its Reception. Collected Essays. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 482. Tubingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck 2022. Pp. ix + 603, Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-16-154917-5. Review of Biblical Literature September 28, 2024.
Fresch, Christopher J. Discourse Markers in Early Koine Greek: Cognitive Functional Analysis and LXX Translation Technique. Septuagint and Cognitive Studies 77 Atlanta: SBL Press, 2023. Pp. xiv + 279, Softcover, $70, ISBN 976-1-62837-542-8. Review of Biblical Literature August 2, 2024.
Maurais, Jean. Characterizing Old Testament Greek Deuteronomy as an Ancient Translation (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 203; Leiden: Brill, 2022). Pp. xiv + 324. €139.00/$167.00. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 2023.
Johann Cook and Martin Rösel, (eds.), Toward a Theology of the Septuagint: Stellenbosch Congress on the Septuagint. Atlanta: SBL, 2020. Pp. xix + 439. € 80. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 83 (2021)
Lo Sardo, Domenico. Post-Priestly Additions and Rewritings in Exodus 35-40. FAT 2.119; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. Pp. 307. Review of Biblical Literature, 05/2021
Screnock, John. Traductor Scriptor: The Old Greek Translation of Exodus 1-14 as Scribal Activity (SVT 174, Leiden: Brill, 2017). Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 20(2020).
John A.L. Lee, The Greek of the Pentateuch: Grinfield Lectures on the Septuagint 2011-12 (New York/Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019). Catholic Biblical Quarterly 82, #1 (2020), 157-59.
Screnock, John. Traductor Scriptor: The Old Greek Translation of Exodus 1-14 as Scribal Activity (SVT 174, Leiden: Brill, 2017). Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 20(2020).
Austin, Benjamin, M. Plant Metaphors in the Old Greek of Isaiah. SCS 69; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2019. Pp.407. Review of Biblical Literature. Dec 2019.
Ziegert, Carsten. Diaspora als Wüstenzeit. Übersetzungswissenschaftliche und theologische Aspekte , griechischen Numeribuches. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 480, Berlin: De Gruyter 2015. 340 pp; ISBN 978-3-11-042502-4. Journal for Septuagint and Cognate Studies 2019
Karen H. Jobes (ed.), Discovering the Septuagint: A Guided Reader (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2016. Catholic Biblical Quarterly Fall, 2019.
Kraus, Wolfgang, Michaël N. vand der Meer, and Martin Meiser. XV Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Munich 2013. (SBLSCS 64; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016). Pp. viii + 796. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 80.1(2018): 167-69.
Siegfried Kreuzer. The Bible in Greek: Translation, Transmission and Theology of the Septuagint (SBLSCS 63; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015). Pp. viii + 323. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 79(2017): 164-67.
Miriam van der Vorm-Croughs. The Old Greek of Isaiah: An Analysis of its Plusses and Minuses (SBLSCS 61; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2014). Pp. xiii + 577. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 78 (2016):536-39.
Wilson de Angelo Cunha. LXX Isaiah 24:1-26:6 as Interpretation and Translation: A Methodological Discussion (SBLSCS 62; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2014). Pp. xvii + 225. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 78 (2016):345-47.
Websites and Blogs
http://moments.nbseminary.com/ Blog with over 175 blog articles on Greek terms in the New Testament.
www.churchboardchair.ca. Website with over 325 articles and resources.
www.moments.nbseminary.com. Monthly electronic bulletin called “Internet Moments with God’s Word.” Over 175 articles.
Presentations
Papers
“Hebraisms and the Text-Linguistic Character of Greek Exodus – a Reappraisal.” CSBS. Septuagint Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. June 20, 2024.
“Discerning Diaspora Theology for a Disapora People in OG Exodus – Issue sof Method and Possible Motifs.” Congress on Theology and Theologial Reception of the LXX Sept 30-Oct 2, 2022. UNiversity of Stellenbosch.
“’Bring the Scrolls, but Especially the Notebooks’ (2 Timothy 4:13). Intertextual Perspectives: How Reading the LXX Helps us to Read the New Testament.” Septuagint Occasional Papers, Northwest Baptist Seminary, Langley, B.C., October 19, 2022.
“φάγομαι/ἔδομαι – Future Forms of ἐσθίω (אכל) in Greek Exodus.” SBL – SCS Workshop, November 2019. San Diego.
“The Use of οἰκία/οἶκος in Greek Exodus. An Attempt to Understand Principles of Lexical Variation in Greek Exodus.” SBL November 2019. San Diego, California. Jointly presented with Spencer Elliott.
“Divine Distinctiveness in Greek Exodus (With Special Focus on the Plague Narrative).” SBL November 2019. San Diego, California.
“Observations on the Plague Narrative in Greek Exodus.” SBL November 2018. Denver, Colorado.
“Yahweh’s κατοικητήριον (Exodus 15:17-18): The Nature of Yahweh’s Relationship to the Land of Canaan in Greek Exodus.” Wuppertal Conference, July 2018.
“Response to A. van der Kooij’s Proposal that Greek Exodus ‘Testifies to the View of the Authorities of the Temple State in Judea.” Presented at the Society of Biblical Studies Conference, November 2017. Boston, Mass.
“The Greek Translator(s’)’s Rendering of אלהים.” Presented at the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, May 2017. Toronto, Ontario.
“ἐγώ εἰμι/ἐγώ Variation in Rendering Certain Hebrew Verbless Clauses in Greek Exodus.” Paper presented at ISBL, Seoul, Korea, July 2016.
Workshops
Best Practices for Church Boards, Plenary Speaker
Marketplace Ministry
Personal Edition of Best Practices for Church Boards (a guide to new board members)
Ministry Leader Evaluation within a local church
The Role of the Church Board Chair (3 workshops at denominational conference, April 2010)
The Nature of Church Board Governance in Local Churches. Ministrylift Conference, 2014 (ACTS)
CCCC conference workshops
Church Board Governance, ACTS 2017
Preaching workshops on 1 and 2 Samuel and Acts for the South Delta Pastors’ Team (2017-2018)
Current Research Projects
1. Mark’s Gospel: The use and function of epithets in Mark’s Gospel.
2. Septuagint Studies:
- The translation process employed by the Greek Exodus Translator – commentary and various articles;
- The Hexaplaric materials for Greek Deuteronomy.