Richard Bauckham (b. 1946) recently retired as Professor of New Testament at St Andrew’s University is now an Associate Staff member at Ridley Hall in Cambridge . In addition to his writings on New Testament he has written extensively on both historical theology and contemporary theology where he is an expert on Moltmann.
Lisa Sowle Cahill is J. Donald Monan Professor, Boston College where she has taught since 1976 and has been a visiting professor at Georgetown and Yale Universities. She is a leading Roman Catholic moral theologian who has been willing to criticize and develop traditional teaching in relation to both sexual and medical ethics. She is Past President of both the Catholic Theological Society of America (1992-93) and the Society of Christian Ethics (1997-98).
Tomorrow I start a monthly Bible Study on Galatians with curates in Southwark Diocese. In preparing for this first session was amazed at how many resources are online. Here’s what I’ve put together as an initial guide
A Short Commentary by Garlington (this is a 193pp summary of the third edition of an over 400pp commentary from 2007 written from within New Perspective)
Longenecker – The Triumph of Abraham’s God: The Transformation of Identity in Galatians (T&T Clark, 1998, the first 45pp or so of this are on Google books)
The more recent books I have found most helpful are
Wright’s work (on Galatians at a popular level see his “Paul For Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians)
Hays, Richard B. “The Letter to the Galatians.” New Interpreter’s Bible. Nashville: Abingdon, 2000, Vol. 11, 181–348.
Longenecker (Triumph of Abraham’s God, 1998). His father (Richard Longenecker) has a commentary in the Word series which is also helpful).
Witherington (Grace in Galatia, 1998)
Dunn – Paul’s Letter to the Galatians (CUP, 1994)
Bruce (NIGTC, 1982, on Greek text)
Others I hope to explore during this year’s study include Garlington (New Perspective – see free shorter commentary above), Schreiner (2010, more classic Reformed evangelical commentary) and Fee (Pentecostal commentary, 2007).
Douglas Moo’s forthcoming commentary will be a significant one and a sense of his understanding of some of the key debates can be found in his article on Justification in Galatians in the Carson Festschrift
I first discovered Hans Boersma through his work on the atonement and violence – Violence, Hospitality and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition He is an evangelical theologian who serves as J.I. Packer Professor of Theology, Regents College, Vancouver. He did his doctoral work (at the State University of Utrecht) on the doctrine of justification in the 17th century Puritan theologian Richard Baxter.