Publications

Academic Journal Articles

• Lee, John J. H. “The Meaning of KAYXAΣΘAI: A Linguistic-Stylistic Approach.” Filología Neotestamentaria 33 (2020) 31–43.
• Lee, John J. H. “Cohesive Harmony Analysis for Ancient Greek: SelPap I:112 and PMich VIII:491 as a Test Case.” Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics 7 (2018) 81–106.

Book Chapters

• Lee, John J. H. “Chapter 10: A Proposal for Systemic Functional Linguistics Register Theory as a Septuagint Commentary Writing Tool.” In Putting the Pieces Together: Formalizing Units and Structures in the Biblical Languages, edited by Stanley E. Porter, Christopher D. Land, and Jim D. Dvorak, 214-36. McMaster New Testament Studies 11. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2024.
• Lee, John J. H. “Kenneth Lee Pike’s Tagmemics and Its Implications for the Discourse Analysis of the New Testament.” In Pillars in the History of Biblical Interpretation: Volume 3: Further Essays on Prevailing Methods, edited by Stanley E. Porter and Zachary K. Dawson, 333–53. McMaster Divinity College Press Biblical Studies Series 3. Eugene: Pickwick, 2021.

Encyclopedia Entries

• Lee, John J. H. “Logico-Semantic Relations.” In The Baker Encyclopedia of Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics, edited by Stanley E. Porter et al., XX–XX. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2024.
• Lee, John J. H. “Morpho-Phonology.” In The Baker Encyclopedia of Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics, edited by Stanley E. Porter et al., XX–XX. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2024.
• Lee, John J. H. “Optimality Theory.” In The Baker Encyclopedia of Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics, edited by Stanley E. Porter et al., XX–XX. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2024.
• Lee, John J. H. “Proper Names.” In The Baker Encyclopedia of Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics, edited by Stanley E. Porter et al., XX–XX. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2024.
• Lee, John J. H. “Syntax-Morphology.” In The Baker Encyclopedia of Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics, edited by Stanley E. Porter et al., XX–XX. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2024.

Conference Papers and Presentations

• Presenter, McMaster Divinity College Theological Research Seminar, Hamilton, ON, 10 February 2025: “What We Should Talk about When We Talk about ἁμαρτία (‘sin’) in Paul’s Gospel”
• Presenter, Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 24 November 2024: “Did Paul Write Ephesians, or Not? Clues from Grammatical Metaphor”
• Presenter, Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 20 November 2024: “From πιστεύειν to πίστις: Neglected Evidence for ‘Faith in Christ’”
• Presenter, McMaster Divinity College Linguistics Circle, Hamilton, ON, 15 Feb 2024: “From πιστεύειν to πίστις: Neglected Evidence for ‘Faith in Christ’“
• Presenter, Secularism and the Pursuit of Transcendence, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, 27 April 2023: “Paul on God’s Transcendence and Immanence: Reading Romans 3 Grammatical-Metaphorically”
• Presenter, McMaster Divinity College Linguistics Circle, Hamilton, ON, 18 February 2021: “Grammatical Metaphor and Greek Texts: Romans 2:17–29 as a Test Case”
• Presenter, Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 23 November 2019: “The Meaning of ΚΑΥΧΑΟΜΑΙ: A Linguistic-Stylistic Approach”
• Presenter, Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 21 November 2019: “The Earth and Its Works Will be Disclosed (NA27), or Not (NA28)?: A Text-Critical Analysis of 2 Peter 3:10”
• Presenter, McMaster Divinity College Theological Research Seminar, Hamilton, ON, 19 March 2019: “Why Are the Pauline Letters Lengthy?: A Linguistic-Stylistic Study of Romans as a Test Case”
• Presenter, Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 20 November 2018: “Engaging with the Homogeneous Unit Principle based on a Linguistic Investigation of Ephesians 2:11–22”
• Presenter, Putting the Pieces Together: Formalizing Units and Relations in the Biblical Languages, H.H. Bingham Colloquium in New Testament, Hamilton, ON, 15 June 2018: “Register Theory as a Septuagint Commentary Writing Tool.”
• Presenter, McMaster Divinity College Theological Research Seminar, Hamilton, ON, 13 February 2018: “Engaging with the Homogeneous Unit Principle based on a Linguistic Investigation of Ephesians 2:11–22”
• Presenter, The Reformation in a Post-Christian World, McMaster Divinity College Centre for Post-Christendom Studies Conference, Hamilton, ON, 27 October 2017: “The Reformed Notion of Christian Freedom in Engaging Islam”
• Presenter, McMaster Divinity College Linguistics Circle, Hamilton, ON, 27 April 2017: “Cohesive Harmony Analysis for Ancient Greek: SelPap I:112 and PMich VIII:491 as a Test Case”
• Presenter, Linguistics and the Bible: Retrospect and Prospects, H.H. Bingham Colloquium in New Testament, Hamilton, ON, 17 June 2016: “Discourse Levels and Conjunctions: The Phenomenon of Asymmetrical Conjoining in Pauline Epistles”

Book Reviews

• Davies, Jamie. Review of The Apocalyptic Paul: Retrospect and Prospect, by John J. H. Lee. JETS 66 (2023) 381-84.
• Boccaccini, Gabriele. Review of Paul’s Three Paths to Salvation, by John J. H. Lee. Trinity Journal. [FORTHCOMING]
• Burge, Gary M. Review of The New Testament in Seven Sentences: A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic, by John J. H. Lee. Themelios 46.2 (2021).
• Bates, Matthew. Review of Gospel Allegiance, by John J. H. Lee. McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry 21 (2019–2020) R1–R7.

---