A Dramatic Heist of Epic Proportion: Iphigenia among the Taurians in the Acts of the Apostles Mark G. Bilby, Anna Lefteratou Harvard Theological Review, 2022 While scholars have explored the profound influence of Iphigenia among the Taurians (IT) on Greco-Roman fiction, including Christian apocryphal Acts, the play has yet to be considered seriously as a potential inspiration on the canonical Acts of the Apostles. A close comparison of IT with the story of the Ephesian riot (Acts 19:21–20:1) reveals a compelling relationship in matters of plot, setting, characterization, purpose, and themes. The Ephesus saga in Acts achieves a creatively miniaturized and satirized recasting of this famous Euripidean play.
Christendom witnesses to the martyrs: Modulations of the Acta Martyrum in Prudentius' Peristephanon, vi MARK GLEN BILBY Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2012 In hymn vi of hisPeristephanon, Prudentius dramatically reworks the plot of thePassio Fructuosi. The poet turns the perpetrators from well-known and dutiful representatives of a transient empire into despicable caricatures of evil and vice, transforms the martyred bishop from a caring pastor into a heroic leader of heroes, re-narrates the roles of Christian family members as anonymous martyr-cult devotees, and shifts the focus from the martyred bishop as a local, beloved model of imitation and encouragement during a time of persecution to the three martyrs together as co-equal objects of worship and patrons and saviours of their region and devotees.
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Neologismata, Volume 1: Proofs of New Testament Redactions between 138 and 249 CE MG Bilby Clavis Imprints , 2026 2026
Apostle Paul Atreides MG Bilby Clavis Imprints , 2026 2026
Gospel of Marcion MG Bilby, M Vinzent NASSCAL e-Clavis for Christian Apocrypha , 2025 2025
Gospel of Peter MG Bilby NASSCAL e-Clavis for Christian Apocrypha , 2025 2025
Die älteste Sammlung paulinischer Briefe und die Entstehung der kanonischen Paulusbriefsammlung M Vinzent, MG Bilby, J Bull, KL Lotharp, G Röhser Narr Francke Attempto , 2025 2025
Joseph of Arimathea on Demas, Narrative of MG Bilby Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity 4 , 2024 2024
A New Critical Edition of the Hospitality of Dysmas ( CANT 78/4; BHG 2119y; ECCA 630) MG BILBY Le Muséon 137 (1), 13-31 , 2024 2024
Behold the Thief with the Eyes of Faith: Late Antique Greek and Latin Sermons on the Good Thief MG Bilby St. Vladimir's Seminary Press , 2024 2024
Normalized Datasets of Zahn's, van Manen's, and Harnack's Greek Reconstructions of Marcion's Apostolos MG Bilby, J Bull, KL Lotharp Journal of Open Humanities Data 9 (21), 1-5 , 2023 2023 Citations: 1
BeDuhn's Greek Reconstruction of Marcion's Gospel MG Bilby, JD BeDuhn Journal of Open Humanities Data 9 (25), 1-6 , 2023 2023 Citations: 1
The Hospitality and Perfume of the Bandit MG Bilby New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures 3, 3-11 , 2023 2023 Citations: 2
A Dramatic Heist of Epic Proportion: Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians in the Acts of the Apostles MG Bilby, A Lefteratou Harvard Theological Review 115 (4), 496-518 , 2022 2022 Citations: 2
Normalized Datasets of Klinghardt’s and Nicolotti’s Reconstructions of Marcion’s Gospel MG Bilby Journal of Open Humanities Data 7 (32), 1-6 , 2021 2021 Citations: 2
Normalized datasets of Hahn’s and Zahn’s reconstructions of Marcion’s Gospel MG Bilby Journal of Open Humanities Data 7 (31), 1-5 , 2021 2021 Citations: 3
Introducing Linked Open Data Living Informational Books MG Bilby Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, https://doi.org/10.5281 … , 2021 2021
Normalized Datasets of Roth’s Reconstruction of Marcion’s Gospel MG Bilby Journal of Open Humanities Data 7 (27), 1-6 , 2021 2021 Citations: 4
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Reconsidering Arminius: Beyond the Reformed and Wesleyan Divide WS Gunter, TA Campbell, JB Green, RP Heitzenrater, HH Knight III, ... Kingswood Books , 2014 2014 Citations: 14
As the bandit will I confess you: Luke 23, 39-43 in early christian interpretation MG Bilby Université de Strasbourg 13, 371 , 2013 2013 Citations: 11
As the Bandit Will I Confess You: Luke 23.39-43 in Early Christian Interpretation MG Bilby University of Virginia , 2012 2012 Citations: 11
Pliny's correspondence and the Acts of the Apostles: an intertextual relationship? MG Bilby Luke on Jesus, Paul and Christianity: what did he really know?, 147-169 , 2017 2017 Citations: 8
Normalized Datasets of Harnack's Reconstruction of Marcion's Gospel M Bilby, A Harnack Journal of Open Humanities Data 7 (24), 1-7 , 2021 2021 Citations: 6
Classical Greek Models of the Gospels and Acts: Studies in Mimesis Criticism M Kochenash, MG Bilby, M Froelich Claremont Press [Claremont Studies in New Testament and Christian Origins 3] , 2018 2018 Citations: 5
Normalized Datasets of Roth’s Reconstruction of Marcion’s Gospel MG Bilby Journal of Open Humanities Data 7 (27), 1-6 , 2021 2021 Citations: 4
First Dionysian Gospel: Imitational and Redactional Layers in Luke and John MG Bilby Classical Greek Models of the Gospels and Acts: Studies in Mimesis Criticism … , 2018 2018 Citations: 4
The Hospitality of Dysmas MG Bilby New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures 1, 39-51 , 2016 2016 Citations: 4
Hospitality of Dysmas MG Bilby e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha , 2016 2016 Citations: 4
Normalized datasets of Hahn’s and Zahn’s reconstructions of Marcion’s Gospel MG Bilby Journal of Open Humanities Data 7 (31), 1-5 , 2021 2021 Citations: 3
Christendom Witnesses to the Martyrs: Modulations of the Acta Martyrum in Prudentius' Peristephanon, vi MG Bilby The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 63 (2), 219-235 , 2012 2012 Citations: 3
The Hospitality and Perfume of the Bandit MG Bilby New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures 3, 3-11 , 2023 2023 Citations: 2
A Dramatic Heist of Epic Proportion: Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians in the Acts of the Apostles MG Bilby, A Lefteratou Harvard Theological Review 115 (4), 496-518 , 2022 2022 Citations: 2
Normalized Datasets of Klinghardt’s and Nicolotti’s Reconstructions of Marcion’s Gospel MG Bilby Journal of Open Humanities Data 7 (32), 1-6 , 2021 2021 Citations: 2
Mainstreaming Mimesis Criticism MG Bilby Classical Greek Models of the Gospels and Acts: Studies in Mimesis Criticism … , 2018 2018 Citations: 2
Ezekiel, Daniel: Reformation Commentary on Scripture, Old Testament XII. Edited by Carl L. Beckwith. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic, 2012. Pp. lx+ 452. $50.00. MG Bilby Religious Studies Review 39 (2), 99-100 , 2013 2013 Citations: 2
A Disappearing People: The Doctrine of Election and Predestination from Irenaeus to Augustine MG Bilby Nazarene Theological Seminary , 2002 2002 Citations: 2
Normalized Datasets of Zahn's, van Manen's, and Harnack's Greek Reconstructions of Marcion's Apostolos MG Bilby, J Bull, KL Lotharp Journal of Open Humanities Data 9 (21), 1-5 , 2023 2023 Citations: 1
