Books

• The Vehement Jesus: Grappling with Troubling Gospel Texts(Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2017).
• Co-editor, Bible, Borders, Belonging(s): Engaging Readings from Oceania(Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014).
• Editor, The Bible, Justice and Public Theology(Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press; Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2014).
• A Peaceable Hope: Contesting Violent Eschatology in New Testament Narratives(Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013).
• Co-editor, Resurrection and Responsibility: Essays on Theology, Scripture, and Ethics in Honor of Thorwald Lorenzen(Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2009).
• Co-editor, Theodicy and Eschatology(Adelaide: ATF Press, 2005).
• Co-editor, Faith and Freedom: Christian Ethics in a Pluralist Culture(Adelaide: ATF Press, 2003).
• Mark’s Gospel—Prior or Posterior? A Reappraisal of the Phenomenon of Order(Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002).
• Editor, Prophecy and Passion: Essays in Honour of Athol Gill(Adelaide: Australian Theological Forum, 2002).
• Arguments from Order in Synoptic Source Criticism: A History and Critique(Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1994).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• “Love of Enemies, New Testament,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Vol. 17 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019), columns 70–72.
• “Like Lightning? Luke 17:22–37 Revisited in Interfaith Perspective,” in Things that Make for Peace: Traversing Text and Tradition in Christianity and Islam, ed. Anthony Rees (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020), 13–24.
• “Betwixt and between: Healing social distancing in Luke 17:11–19,” St Mark’s Review, No. 253 (2020): 60–69.
• “Anabaptist Pacifism,” Faith and Freedom: A Journal of Christian Ethics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (August 1998): 12–16. Reprinted with a response by Graeme R. Chatfield in South Pacific Journal of Mission Studies, No. 28 (July 2003): 33–39.
• “King, Merton and Barth: Their Abiding Significance,” inFaith and Freedom: Christian Ethics in a Pluralist Culture, ed. David Neville and Philip Matthews (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2003), 95–125.
• “C. S. Lewis and Christian Pacifism,” in Faith and Freedom: Christian Ethics in a Pluralist Culture, ed. David Neville and Philip Matthews (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2003), 205–216.
• “Colour and Criticism: Light on the Gospels,”St Mark’s Review, No. 195 (2004): 29–36.
• “God’s Presence and Power: Christology, Eschatology and ‘Theodicy’ in Mark’s Crucifixion Narrative,” inTheodicy and Eschatology, ed. Bruce Barber and David Neville (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2005), 19–41.
• “The Demise of the Two-Document Hypothesis? Dunn and Burkett on Gospel Sources,”Pacifica, Vol. 19, No. 1 (February 2006): 78–92.
• “The Second Testament as a Covenant of Peace,”Biblical Theology Bulletin, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring 2007): 27–35.
• “Jesus’ Vision of God’s Fair Reign,” in“Into the World You Love”: Encountering God in Everyday Life, ed. Graeme Garrett (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2007), 36–49.
• “The Bible as a Public Document: A Perspective on the Contribution of Anglicanism,”St Mark’s Review, No. 203 (2007): 35–45.
• “Toward a Teleology of Peace: Contesting Matthew’s Violent Eschatology,”Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Vol. 30, No. 2 (December 2007): 131–61. [Reprinted in New Testament Studies, 4 Volumes, SAGE Benchmarks in Religious Studies, ed. Paul Foster (Sage Publications, 2010), Volume 2, chapter 24.]
• “Moral Vision and Eschatology in Mark’s Gospel: Coherence or Conflict?”Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 127, No. 2 (Summer 2008): 359–84.
• “Dialectic as Method in Public Theology: Recalling Jacques Ellul,”International Journal of Public Theology, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2008): 163–81.
• “The Phantom Returns: Delbert Burkett’s Rehabilitation of Proto-Mark,”Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, Vol. 84, No. 1 (April 2008): 135–73. [See, in reply, Delbert Burkett, “The Return of Proto-Mark: A Response to David Neville,” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, Vol. 85, No. 1 (April 2009): 117–34.]
• “Violating Faith via Eschatological Violence: Reviewing Matthew’s Eschatology,” inValidating Violence – Violating Faith: Interfaith Perspectives on Religious Violence, ed. William Emilsen and John Squires (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2008), 95–110.
• “Justice and Divine Judgment: Scriptural Perspectives for Public Theology,”International Journal of Public Theology, Vol. 3, No. 3 (2009): 339–56.
• “Grace Elicits Correspondences: The Christian Theologian as Peacemaker,” inEmbracing Grace – The Theologian’s Task: Essays in Honour of Graeme Garrett, ed. Heather Thomson (Canberra: Barton Books, 2009), 119–34.
• “Creation Reclaimed: Resurrection and Responsibility in Mark 15:40–16:8,” inResurrection and Responsibility: Essays on Theology, Scripture, and Ethics in Honor of Thorwald Lorenzen, ed. Keith D. Dyer and David J. Neville (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2009), 95–115.
• “‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me’: Preaching from Luke in Year C,”St Mark’s Review, No. 213 (2010): 57–70.
• “Things New and Old: Preaching from Matthew in Year A,”St Mark’s Review, No. 216 (2011): 25–41.
• “Faithful, True, and Violent? Christology and ‘Divine Vengeance’ in the Revelation to John,” inCompassionate Eschatology: The Future as Friend, ed. Ted Grimsrud and Michael Hardin (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2011), 56–84.
• “The Way of the Lord: Preaching from Mark in Year B,”St Mark’s Review, No. 219 (2012): 17–34.
• “The Spirit of Promise: Preaching from Acts,”St Mark’s Review, No. 223 (2013): 51–66.
• “Christian Scripture and Public Theology: Ruminations on their Ambiguous Relationship,”International Journal of Public Theology, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2013): 5–23.
• “The Moral Vision of Jesus in Matthew 5,”St Mark’s Review, No. 227 (2014): 46–61.
• “Calamity and the Biblical God – Borderline or Line of Belonging? Intratextual Tension in Luke 13,” inBible, Borders, Belonging(s): Engaging Readings from Oceania, ed. Jione Havea, David J. Neville, and Elaine M. Wainwright (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014), 39–55.
• “The Bible, Justice and Public Theology: An Introductory Essay,” inThe Bible, Justice and Public Theology, ed. David J. Neville (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2014), 1–21.
• “Parable as Paradigm for Public Theology: Relating Theological Vision to Social Life,” inThe Bible, Justice and Public Theology, ed. David J. Neville (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2014), 145–60.
• “Toward a Hermeneutic of Shalom: Reading Texts of Teleological Terror in Peace Perspective,”Word & World, Vol. 34, No. 4 (2014): 339–48.
• “Love of Enemies, NT,” commissioned for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, forthcoming 2018.