Dr. Travis R. Niles

• The Corpus Paulinum
• New Testament and Ancient Philosophy
• Biblical Doctrine of God
• 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:

• "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. 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. The conference was organized by the Institut for Classics of the University of Bern from 29 June to 01 July, 2023.

• "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: Greco-Roman Antiquity," in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, forthcoming).

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 (forthcoming).

• Peter-Ben Smit, Masculinity and the Bible: Survey, Models, and Perspectives (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017), in: Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift (forthcoming).

• 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).

• 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 [ca. 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).

• Society of Biblical Literature
• European Association of Biblical Studies
• Karl Barth Translators' Seminar, Center for Barth Studies (Princeton Theological Seminary)
  • https://barth.ptsem.edu/translators-seminar/current-neh-award-project-2018/.