James Aageson

Title: Professor & Dean of Arts and Sciences
Department: Religion
Phone: 218.299.3001
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Degrees and Education:

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Oxford, Mansfield College, Oxford, England, 1984
  • Master of Theology, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 1977
  • Master of Divinity, Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1976
  • Bachelor of Arts, Honors, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, 1970 (Major: History)

Courses Taught:

  • Jesus the Jew, Jesus the Christ
  • Paul: Apostle or Apostate
  • Jews and Christians: Tradition and Conflict
  • Jerusalem: Heavenly City, Earthly City
  • Christian Traditions: The Empire of Rome and the Kingdom of God (taught in Greece)
  • Christianity and Religious Diversity
  • Global Studies Through the Window of the Middle East
  • Religion and World Affairs
  • Biblical Hermeneutics

Research / Teaching Interests:

  • New Testament Studies
  • History of Early Christianity

Scholarly Activities:

Books

Paul's Use of Scripture: A Comparative Study of Biblical Interpretation in Early Palestinian Judaism and the New Testament with Special Reference to Romans 9-11, Bodleian Library, Oxford [Unpublished]

Written Also for Our Sake: Paul and the Art of Biblical Interpretation (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993)

In the Beginning: Critical Concepts for the Study of the Bible (Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 2000)

Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church (Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers, 2008)

The Future of the Lutheran Tradition in a Global Context, Co-edited with Arland Jacobson (Minneapolis: Augsburg/Fortress Press, 2008)

Book Chapters and Collected Papers

"Typology, Correspondence, and the Application of Scripture in Romans 9-11," Journal for the Study of the New Testament 31 [October, 1987]: 51-72. Reprinted in Porter, Stanley E. and Evans, Craig A. The Pauline Writings: A Sheffield Reader (Sheffield:  Sheffield Academic Press, 1995). pp. 76-97.

"2 Timothy and Its Theology: In Search of a Theological Pattern," Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers, 36 (1997): 692-714.

“The Pastoral Epistles, Apostolic Authority, and the Development of the Pauline Scriptures” in The Pauline Canon. ed. Stanley E. Porter, vol. 1, Pauline Studies (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004). 5-26.  

“1 Peter 2:11-3:7:  Slaves, Wives, and the Complexities of Interpretation” in The Feminist Companion to the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews. ed. Amy-Jill Levine (London and  New York: T & T Clark International, 2004). 34-49. 

“Written Also for Our Sake: Paul’s Use of Scripture in the Four Major Epistles, with a Study of 1 Corinthians 10.” in Hearing the old Testament in the New Testament. ed. Stanley E. Porter (Grand Rapids and Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2006). 152-181.  

“Justification by Faith and the Biblical Scholar’s Craft: A Matter of  Method,” Lutherans and Theological Method: Perennial Questions and Contemporary Challenges.  ed. David C. Ratke (Minneapolis: Lutheran University Press, 2010). 16-26.

Genesis in the Deutero-Pauline Epistles, forthcoming in Genesis in the New Testament, edited by Maarten J. J. Menken and Steve Moyise, T. & T Clark International.

Research in Progress

Paul and the Development of post-New Testament Christianity: From Biblical Text to Biblical Interpretation to Christian Theology

Foundation, Formation and Structure: New Ways to Think about Christianity, its Neighbors, and its Origins—book in process