Ian Boxall, DPhil

Senior Fellow in New Testament and Professor of Biblical Studies

Education

DPhil, University of Oxford
MPhil, University of Oxford
BA, University of Oxford

ABOUT

Ian Boxall was born in Folkestone, Kent (UK), and has taught New Testament as Chichester Theological College (1992-94) and in the University of Oxford from 1994-2013., where he was Senior Tutor and Tutorial Fellow in New Testament at St. Stephen's House. He joined the faculty of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America from 2013-2022 and returned to St. Stephen's House, Oxford, in 2022.

Selected Courses

• Biblical Interpretation
• Synoptics
• Johannine Literature
• Pauling Litertaure

 

Selected Publications

‘Revelation,’ in The Miraculous and the Biblical Traditions. Edited by Graham H. Twelftree. Leiden: Brill. In press.

‘Visualizing the New Jerusalem: Reception of Patristic Exegetical Traditions in Medieval Illuminated Apocalypses,’ in The New Jerusalem in Patristic Reception. Edited by Nathan Betz, Johan Leemans and Anthony Dupont. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. In press.

‘Israel’s Scriptures in the Revelation of John,’ in Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings: The Use of the Old Testament in the New. Edited by Matthias Henze and David Lincicum. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023, pp. 555‒76.

Ian Boxall and Bradley C. Gregory, ed., The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

‘Uses of the Bible in Communities of Faith,’ in The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation. Edited by Ian Boxall and Bradley C. Gregory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 356–74.

‘Roman Catholic Perspective on the New Testament Canon,’ in Five Views on the New Testament Canon. Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Benjamin P. Laird. Grand Rapids: Kregel, pp. 131-57.

‘Origen’s Commentary on Matthew and the Reception of Matthew’s Gospel,’ in The Composition, Theology, and Early Reception of Matthew’s Gospel. Edited by Joseph Verheyden, Jens Schröter, and David C. Sim. WUNT 477; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022, pp. 321–40.

‘Joseph Son of David in the Reception History of Matthew’s Gospel,’ in The Gospel of Matthew in its Historical and Theological Context: Papers from the International Conference in Moscow, September 24 to 28, 2018. Edited by Mikhail Seleznev, William R.G. Loader and Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr. WUNT 459; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021, pp. 29-46.

‘Matthew,’ in The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by John J. Collins, Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara Reid OP, and Donald Senior CP. London and New York: Bloomsbury T. & T. Clark, 2021. 56,000 word commentary.

‘Seeing Christ’s Angel: The Contribution of Visual Exegesis to the Interpretation of Revelation 10,’ in The Art of Biblical Interpretation: Visual Portrayals of Scriptural Narratives. Edited by Heidi Hornik, Ian Boxall, and Bobbi Dykema. SBL Bible and its Reception series. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021, pp. 261-92.

‘The Last of the Patriarchs: A Marginal Motif in the Visual Reception of Saint Joseph,’ Die Bibel in der Kunst / Bible in the Arts 5 (2021).

Heidi J. Hornik, Ian Boxall, and Bobbi Dykema, ed., The Art of Biblical Interpretation: Visual Portrayals of Scriptural Narratives. SBL Bible and its Reception series. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021.
Christ in the Book of Revelation. Biblical Studies from the CBA. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2021.