Dr. Travis R. Niles

• The Corpus Paulinum
• Gospels Research
• New Testament and Ancient Philosophy
• Plutarch Studies
• Biographically Grounded Literature of the Early Imperial Period
• Religious and Philosophical History of the Hellenistic World

Mongraphs:

• "For I Suppose There Was No Difference between His Life and His Tomb." The Search for Life in the Gospel of Luke, Philo’s De vita Mosis and Plutarch’s Vita Alexandri. Working title of a Habilitationsschrift (in progress).

• The Image of the Invisible God: An Exegetical Study of Colossians 1:15–20, WUNT II/599 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023).

  • Open Access Publication: https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/the-image-of-the-invisible-god-9783161625572?no_cache=1.

Articles:

• "Alexander der Grosse und Anaxarchos der Sophist: Der Anfang vom Ende in Plutarchs Vita Alexandri." Accepted for publication in the journal Hermes: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie und Einzelschriften.

• "'Such is Human Life' (Charon 19): Biographically Grounded Forms in Lucian." Contribution to the conference volume Biographically Grounded Literature in Hellenistic and Early Roman Imperial Times, eds. Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Travis R. Niles, David Staub, and Stefano De Feo (to be published in 2025). The conference was organized by the Theological Faculty of the University of Bern from 24 to 26 June, 2024.

• "Die Erkenntnis des unsichtbaren Gottes nach dem Kolosserbrief." Contribution to the conference volume Les racines de la théologie négative aux premiers siècles, eds. Anne Boiché and Beatrice Wyss (to be published in 2025). The conference was organized by the Theological Faculty of the University of Fribourg from 14 to 15 March, 2024.

• "Das Ende der römischen Republik in den Augen Plutarchs." Contribution to the conference volume Κίνησις und Krise. Vom Grundmotiv antiker Geschichtsschreibung zum modernen Begriff, eds. Tobias Joho and Gunther Martin (to be published in 2024). The conference was organized by the Institut for Classics of the University of Bern from 29 June to 01 July, 2023.

• "Resonances through History: Biographically Grounded Construals of Divine Involvement in History in the Early Roman Imperial Era," Early Christianity 15, no. 3 (2024), 387–397.

  • Coauthored with Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, David Staub, and Stefano De Feo.

• "Does the Stoic Body Have a Head? On Stoicism as an Interpretive Background for Col 1:18a,” Novum Testamentum 63 (2021), 390–407.

Lexicon Articles:

• "Palace: IV. Greco-Roman Antiquity," in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 22, Og (King of Bashan) – Papyrus, Papyri, eds. Constance M. Furey et al. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024), 1176–1177.
  • https://doi.org/10.1515/ebr.palace

Reviews:

• Ludovica De Luca, Il Dio architetto di Filone di Alessandria. De opificio mundi 17–20, Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico 147 (Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2021), in: Judaica. Neue Digitale Folge, Vol. 5/1 (2024): https://doi.org/10.36950/jndf.2024.1.19.

• Peter-Ben Smit, Masculinity and the Bible: Survey, Models, and Perspectives (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017), in: Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift 113/1 (2023), 59–60.

• Simon Dürr, Paul on the Human Vocation: Reason Language in Romans and Ancient Philosophical Tradition, BZNW 226 (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021), in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte / Revue suisse d'histoire religieuse et culturelle 116 (2022), 417–419.

Collaborations:

• Über Gott. Festschrift für Reinhard Feldmeier zum 70. Geburtstag, eds. Jan Dochhorn, Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, and Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, with collaboration from Barbara Hirsch and T.R. Niles (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022): https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/ueber-gott-9783161617287?no_cache=1

Translations:

• Reinhard Feldmeier, The Spirit of God: Biblical Pneumatology in its Religious-Historical Context (Paderborn: Brill/Ferdinand Schöningh, 2021): https://brill.com/view/title/59259?language=en.

  • German Title: Gottes Geist. Die biblische Rede vom Geist im Kontext der antiken Welt (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020).

• Reinhard Feldmeier, "Acts," in The New Oxford Bible Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

• Bruce McCormack, "Können wir noch von einer 'Rechtfertigung durch den Glauben' reden? Zum Gespräch mit apokalyptischen Paulusdeutungen," in Bruce McCormack, Überlegungen zur Menschlichkeit Gottes. Ausgewählte Aufsätze, eds. Justus Geilhufe und Matthias Gockel (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2024), 93–120.

  • English Title: "Can We Still Speak of 'Justification by Faith'? An In-House Debate with Apocalyptic Readings of Paul," in Galatians and Christian Theology: Justification, the Gospel, and Ethics in Paul's Letter, eds. Mark W. Elliot et al. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014), 159–184.

• As Translation Fellow of the Karl Barth Translators’ Seminar, Princeton Theological Seminary:

  • Contributions to Karl Barth, Lectures and Shorter Works, 3 vols. (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press [as of 2023]).

    • Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: https://barth.ptsem.edu/translators-seminar/current-neh-award-project-2018/.

      • German Title: Vorträge und kleinere Arbeiten, Gesamtausgabe III:19, III:21, III:22 (Zürich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 1990–1993).

• Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas: Associate Member
• Society of Biblical Literature