Tom’s Writings

This is an archive of published and unpublished writings by Thomas E. Boomershine.

Peace and Non-Violence

The Messiah of Peace: A Performance Criticism Commentary on Mark’s Passion-Resurrection Narrative
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Demons, Dogs, and Peacemaking
Published in “The Earlhamite” Magazine of Earlham College, Volume 108, Number 3, Summer 1988

Biblical Storytelling

Telling the Gospel
Published in The Journal of Biblical Storytelling: The Journal of the Network of Biblical Storytellers, 1990: Volume 2 Number 1.

Biblical Storytelling
© 2007 GoTell Communications, Inc.

Story Journey: An Invitation to the Gospel as Storytelling
© 1988 by Thomas E. Boomershine
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Christianity and Communications 

Lecture at the Ohio School of Ministry (August 1981)

Paradigm Shifts, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and the Gospel in the Global Village

Media in Worship

The Media Failure of Religious Liberals
Published in Out of Line: Imaginative Writings on Peace and Justice 1, no. 1 (1998).

The Polish Cavalry and Christianity in Electronic Culture
Published in Journal of Theology (United Theological Seminary) 99 (1995): 90-102.

History of Biblical Interpretation

A History of Biblical Narration

Continuity and Change in the Communication of the Gospels

A Sketch of Christianity in Ancient and Modern Media
Published as an UNDA – USA White Paper – Fall 1985.

Biblical Megatrends
Published in American Bible Society Symposium Papers on the Bible in the Twenty-First Century, 209-30. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1993. Click here for Bruce Benson’s review of this article.

New Testament Scholarship

Epistemology at the Turn of the Ages
Published in Apocalyptic and the New Testament: Essays in Honor of J. Louis Martyn, edited by Joel Marcus and Marion L. Soards, 147-67. Sheffield, England: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Press, 1989.

Jesus of Nazareth and the Ancient Watershed of Orality and Literacy
Published in Semeia 65 (1994): 7-36.

Mark 16:8 and the Apostolic Commission
Published in the Journal of Biblical Literature 100, no. Je (1981): 225-39.

Narrative Technique of Mark 16:8
Published in the Journal of Biblical Literature 100, no. Je (1981): 213-23.

The Reemergence of Biblical Narrative

Biblical Performance Criticism

The Messiah of Peace: A Performance Criticism Commentary on Mark’s Passion-Resurrection Narrative
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Teaching Mark as Performance Literature

Jesus’ Voice in John

Audience Address in Mark

Bible in Digital Culture

Digital Biblical Storytelling: Calling or Contradiction?
Published in The Biblical Storyteller, January/February 2003 Issue (Volume 21, No. 1).

Biblical Storytelling and Electronic Media
Published in APCE Advocate. Volume 6, No. 3. 1981.

From Visions to Video: Revelation as a Case Study for a New Paradigm for Biblical Study

The Reemergence of Biblical Narrative

The Sound of Biblical Texts

Mel, Go To Seminary, Please
Published in Journal of Theology (United Theological Seminary) 109, no. Summer 2005 (2005): 17-30.

A New Paradigm for Interpreting the Bible on TV
Published in Changing Channels: The Church and the Television Revolution, edited by Tyron Inbody, 61-76. Dayton, Ohio: Whaleprints, 1990.