(SELECT PUBLICATIONS. "BEST OF." OTHERS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.)
BOOKS:
Schlimm, Matthew R. This Strange and Sacred Scripture: Wrestling
with the Old Testament and Its Oddities. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2015. (Spring 2012 Research Leave.)
_____. Esta Extraña y Sagrada Escritura: Luchando con el Antiguo Testamento y Todas Sus Rarezas. Trans. Alvin Góngora. Miami: JuanUno1, 2021.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
_____. “Noah’s Inebriated Curse (Gen 9:20–27).” Harvard Theological Review. Forthcoming. (Spring 2022 Research Leave.)
_____. “John Wesley's Assessment of Early Biblical Criticism.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 55, no. 2 (2020): 127–46.
_____. “The Paradoxes of Fear in the Hebrew Bible.” Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 84 (2019): 25–50.
_____. “Jealousy or Furnace Remelting? A Response to Nissim Amzallag.” Journal of Biblical Literature 136 (2017): 513–28 (lead article).
ESSAYS:
_____. “Theological Tensions in the Book of
Isaiah.” The Cambridge Companion to the Book of
Isaiah. Edited by Christopher B. Hays. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2024.
_____. “Reparations in Exodus.” Pages 3–16 in Reparations and the Theological Disciplines: Prophetic Voices for Remembrance, Reckoning, and Repair. Edited by Michael Barram, Drew G. I. Hart, Gimbiya Kettering, and Michael J. Rhodes. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2023.
_____. “Creation Ethics in Genesis.” Pages 85–100 in Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics. Edited by C. L. Crouch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
_____. “Commentary on Numbers.” Pages 90–110 in Wesley One Volume Commentary. Edited by Kenneth J. Collins and Robert W. Wall. Nashville: Abingdon, 2020.
_____. “The Central Role of Emotions in Biblical Theology, Biblical Ethics, and Popular Conceptions of the Bible.” Pages 43-59 in Mixed Feelings and Vexed Passions in Biblical Literature: Emotions of Divine and Human Figures in Interdisciplinary Perspective. Edited by Scott Spencer. Atlanta: SBL, 2017.
_____. “Biblical Ethics (Old Testament).” Pages 274-280 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology. Edited by Samuel E. Balentine. New York: Oxford, 2015.
POPULAR PUBLICATIONS:
“That Time Noah Had Too Much to Drink.” Christian Century. Forthcoming. (Spring 2022 Research Leave.)
“Saving the Egyptians: Exodus 12 Tells a Story of Reparations for
Slavery.” Christian Century 139.1 (January 12, 2022): 24–27. (Cover
story.) https://www.christiancentury.org/article/critical-essay/book-exodus-includes-story-about-reparations-slavery
“Violent Texts: Why Is Deuteronomy 20 in the Bible?” Christian Century 138.13 (June 30, 2021): 20–24. (Cover story.) https://www.christiancentury.org/article/critical-essay/dad-why-does-deuteronomy-20-talk-about-killing-boys-and-girls