Francis Watson

Francis Watson is a Christian scholar and professor of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Durham. Notice of appointment to Durham, May, 2007. He formerly taught at the University of Aberdeen where he was the Kirby Laing Chair in New Testament. Watson is a respected scholar in the areas of biblical interpretation and the theological interpretation of Scripture. He has an MA and DPhil from Oxford. 
== Selected publications ==
* Text and Truth: Redefining Biblical Theology. Eerdmans, 1997; 2009.
* Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: Beyond the New Perspective. Eerdmans, 2007. This is a revision and expansion of his disseration which was originally published with Cambridge in 1986. 
* Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith. T. & T. Clark, 2004.
* Agape, Eros, Gender: Towards a Pauline Sexual Ethic. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004.
* Text, Church, and World: Biblical Interpretation in Theological Perspective. Eerdmans, 1994.
* Paul, Judaism and the Gentiles: A Sociological Approach. Cambridge, 1986. This is Watson's published disseration. 
== Notes ==
== External links ==
* Francis Watson's faculty page (includes online writings)
* Review of Text and Truth: Redefining Biblical Theology
=== Online writings ===
* “Have you not read…?” Christians, Jews and Scripture in Justin’s Dialogue with Trypho (PDF)
* Gospel and Scripture: Rethinking Canonical Unity (PDF) Tyndale Bulletin 52.2 (2001): 161-182
* Excerpt from Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith (DOC)
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