Professor Garrick Allen
- Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism (Theology & Religious Studies)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4428-1775Biography
After completing my PhD at the University of St Andrews (2015), I worked as a postdoctoral researcher on ECM-Apk project at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel, where I contributed to the production of a new Greek critical edition of the book of Revelation. From 2016 to 2020 I was Associate Professor in New Testament Studies at Dublin City University. And since 2020 I am Senior Lecturer in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow.
My first book, The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture (Cambridge 2017), was awarded the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise 2019 and my essay "Monks, Manuscripts, Muhammad, and Digital Editions of the New Testament," published also in a chapter in my book Manuscripts of the Book of Revelation (Oxford 2020), was awarded the Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship by the Society of Biblical Literature (2018).
I am currently an Adjunct Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Studies "Beyond Canon," University of Regensburg, on the Advisory Board of the UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religion, an Academic Collaborator of the ADAPT Centre, Dublin, and a Research Associate of the School of Ancient and Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Pretoria.
Research interests
Apocalyptic literature; book of Revelation; paratexts, manuscripts, and textual criticism; early Jewish literature and its relationship to the New Testament and early Christianity; practices of quotation and allusion; ancient literary composition; aesthetics and knowledge
Publications
2025
Allen, G. V. , Fowler, K. A., Scieri, E. and Venetskov, M. (2025) The Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts. Brill: Leiden. (Accepted for Publication)
Allen, G. V. (2025) Revelation. In: Dhont, M. (ed.) T&T Clark Handbook for Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek. Bloomsbury: London. (In Press)
Bahena-Rivera, A. , Rodenbiker, K. , Scheepers, C. and Allen, G. V. (2025) Paratexts, manuscripts, literature, and understanding. In: Brewer, C. (ed.) Art Seeking Understanding: Conceptual, Empirical, and Experimental Approaches. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids. (Accepted for Publication)
2024
Allen, G. V. (2024) What Are Paratexts and How Do They Change How We Read the Bible? [Website]
Allen, G. V. (2024) What can we Learn from Manuscripts of the New Testament? [Website]
Allen, G. V. and Fowler, K. (2024) The story of Codex H (GA 015): manuscript migration and primary sources in biblical studies. Journal of Biblical Literature, (Accepted for Publication)
Allen, G. (2024) Studies of shapes: subjectivity in palaeography and understanding. New Testament Studies, (Accepted for Publication)
Allen, G. V. (2024) Words Are Not Enough: Paratexts, Manuscripts, and the Real New Testament. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids. ISBN 9780802883353
Allen, G. , Rodenbiker, K. , Vercesi, M., Fowler, K., Venetskov, M. and Su, L. (2024) Titles of the New Testament Database and Search Tool. [Website] (In Press)
2023
Allen, G. , Fowler, K. A., Rodenbiker, K. G. , Venetskov, M. , Vercesi, M. and Su, L. (2023) Editing paratexts: Observations from the New Testament’s titles. Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 9(1-2), pp. 187-204. (doi: 10.25592/uhhfdm.14103)
Allen, G. V. (2023) Transcription Guidelines - Annotating the New Testament: Codex H, Euthalian Traditions, and the Humanities project. [Research Reports or Papers]
Allen, G. V. (2023) Smells like teen spirit: Steve Moyise and G. K. Beale on the use of scripture in Revelation in the 1990s. In: Docherty, Susan E. and Smith, Steve (eds.) The Scriptures in the Book of Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature: Essays in Honour of Steve Moyise. Series: The library of New Testament studies (634). Bloomsbury Publishing, Imprint T&T Clark. ISBN 9780567695895
Allen, G. V. (2023) Aramaica qumranica apocalyptica and the book of Revelation. In: DiTommaso, Lorenzo and Goff, Matthew (eds.) Reimagining Apocalypticism: Apocalyptic Literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Writings. SBL Press: Atlanta, pp. 403-428. ISBN 9781628375343
Allen, G. V. (2023) Are there ancient editions of Paul’s letters? The Euthalian apparatus as a storehouse of tradition. Studia Theologica: Nordic Journal of Theology, 77(2), pp. 200-230. (doi: 10.1080/0039338X.2023.2191992) (PMID:38020802) (PMCID:PMC10658798)
Allen, G. V. (2023) Eschatology. In: Henze, Matthias and Lincicum, David (eds.) Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings: The Use of the Old Testament in the New. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company: Grand Rapids, Michigan, pp. 743-764. ISBN 9780802874443
Rodenbiker, K. G. and Allen, G. V. (2023) The Euthaliana and the Catholic Epistles. Zeitschrift fur Neues Testament, 26(51), pp. 39-53. (doi: 10.24053/ZNT-2023-0003)
Allen, G. V. , Gad, U. A. M., Rodenbiker, K. G. , Royle, A. P. and Unkel, J. (Eds.) (2023) The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri at Ninety. Series: Manuscripta Biblica. De Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110781014
Royle, A. P. and Allen, G. V. (2023) Framing Mark: reading Mark 16 in a Catena manuscript. Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 8(2), pp. 385-400. (doi: 10.25592/uhhfdm.12441)
Allen, G. V. (2023) Alfred Chester Beatty and his Biblical (and other) Papyri at Ninety. In: Allen, Garrick Vernon, Gad, Usama Ali Mohamed, Rodenbiker, Kelsie Gayle, Royle, Anthony Philip and Unkel, Jill (eds.) The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri at Ninety. Series: Manuscripta Biblica. De Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9783110781014 (doi: 10.1515/9783110781304-001)
2022
Allen, G. V. , Dilley, P. and Phillips, P. (2022) Textual approaches, image analysis, and bottom-up approaches in religious studies. In: Allen, Garrick V., Schulthess, Sara, Dilley, Paul and Phillips, Peter (eds.) New Approaches to Textual and Image Analysis in Early Jewish and Christian Studies. Brill: Leiden, pp. 1-4. ISBN 9789004518131 (doi: 10.1163/9789004515116_002)
Allen, G. V. , Schulthess, S., Dilley, P. and Phillips, P. (Eds.) (2022) New Approaches to Textual and Image Analysis in Early Jewish and Christian Studies. Series: Digital biblical studies. Brill: Leiden ; Boston. ISBN 9789004518131
Allen, G. (2022) AT THE THRESHOLD: To Imagine That. [Audio]
Norton, J. D.H., Allen, G. and Askin, L. A. (Eds.) (2022) Reading, Writing, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean. Series: Education, literary culture, and religious practice in the ancient world. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350265028
Allen, G. V. (2022) Libraries, special libraries, and John of Patmos. In: Norton, Jonathan D.H., Allen, Garrick and Askin, Lindsey A. (eds.) Reading, Writing, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean. Series: Education, literary culture, and religious practice in the ancient world. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350265028
Allen, G. V. (2022) Early textual scholarship on acts: Observations from the Euthalian quotation lists. Religions, 13(5), 435. (doi: 10.3390/rel13050435)
Allen, G. V. (2022) Titles in the New Testament papyri. New Testament Studies, 68(2), pp. 156-171. (doi: 10.1017/S0028688521000370)
Allen, G. V. and Rodenbiker, K. G. (Eds.) (2022) Titles, Paratexts, and Manuscript Communication: Jewish and Christian Literature in Material Context. Religions. [Edited Journal]
2021
Allen, G. V. (2021) Exodus traditions in the synoptic gospels. In: Kowalski, Beate and Docherty, Susan (eds.) The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature. Series: Themes in Biblical Narrative, 30. Brill: Leiden; Boston, pp. 201-221. ISBN 9789004471122 (doi: 10.1163/9789004471122_012)
Allen, G. V. and Rodenbiker, K. G. (2021) TiNT Project Transcription Guidelines. [Research Reports or Papers]
Allen, G. (2021) The possibilities of a gospel codex: GA 2064 (Dublin, CBL W 139), digital editing, and reading in a manuscript culture. Journal of Biblical Literature, 140(2), pp. 409-434. (doi: 10.15699/jbl.1402.2021.10)
Allen, G. (2021) Titles of the New Testament (TiNT). [Website]
Allen, G. V. , Conlan, O., Conran, C., Debruyne, C., Nicholson, M., O’Sullivan, D., Rodenbiker, K. and Royle, A. P. (2021) The New Testament in virtual research environments: titles, Greek manuscripts, data querying. Classics@, 18(1),
Allen, G. V. , Rodenbiker, K. G. and Royle, A. P. (2021) Fragments : The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri in Context. [Exhibitions]
Clivaz, C. and Allen, G. V. (2021) Classics@18: Ancient Manuscripts and Virtual Research Environments [Special Co-Editor]. Classics@, 18,
Clivaz, C. and Allen, G. V. (2021) Introduction: ancient manuscripts and virtual research environments. Classics@, 18,
Royle, A., Allen, G. and Monier, M. (2021) GA 2604 f.176v, f.177r, f.177v and f.178r. [Scholarly Editions]
2020
Allen, G. and Clivaz, C. (2020) Ancient manuscripts and virtual research environments. Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 6(2), pp. 205-208. (doi: 10.25592/uhhfdm.8477)
Allen, G. V. (2020) Outils numériques pour travailler avec les manuscrits du Nouveau Testament. Foi et Vie: Revue protestante de culture, 2020(5), pp. 19-27.
Allen, G. V. and Royle, A. P. (2020) Paratexts seeking understanding: manuscripts and aesthetic cognitivism. Religions, 11(10), 523. (doi: 10.3390/rel11100523)
Allen, G. V. (2020) An anti-Islamic marginal comment in the Apocalypse of “Codex Reuchlin” (GA 2814) and its tradition. In: Karrer, Martin (ed.) Der Codex Reuchlins zur Apokalypse: Byzanz – Basler Konzil – Erasmus. Series: Manuscripta Biblica (5). De Gruyter: Berlin ; Boston, pp. 193-198. ISBN 9783110674118 (doi: 10.1515/9783110675504-009)
Allen, G. V. (2020) Manuscripts of the Book of Revelation: New Philology, Paratexts, Reception. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198849056 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198849056.001.0001)
Allen, G. V. (2020) Monks, manuscripts, Muhammad, and the future of the critical editions. In: Anderson, Bradford A. (ed.) From Scrolls to Scrolling: Sacred Texts, Materiality, and Dynamic Media Cultures. Series: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - tension, transmission, transformation (12). De Gruyter: Berlin ; Boston, pp. 181-211. ISBN 9783110629590 (doi: 10.1515/9783110634440-009)
Allen, G. (2020) Insights Hidden in Plain Sight. [Audio]
Allen, G. (2020) What happened on the first Easter Sunday? [Website]
Allen, G. (2020) Metatron visual art. In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110229851
Allen, G. V. (2020) Aesthetic Cognitivism in the Arts, Theology, Biblical Studies, and Manuscript Cultures: An Annotated Bibliography. [Research Reports or Papers]
Allen, G. V. (2020) Manuscripts beyond the Canon. Ancient Jew Review,
Allen, G. V. and Rodenbiker, K. G. (2020) Titles of the New Testament (TiNT): a new approach to manuscripts and the history of interpretation. Early Christianity, 11, pp. 265-280. (doi: 10.1628/ec-2020-0012)
2019
Allen, G. V. (2019) Paratexts and the reception history of the Apocalypse. Journal of Theological Studies, 70, pp. 600-632. (doi: 10.1093/jts/flz092)
Allen, G. V. (2019) Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman. To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. V. (2019) Holger Strutwolf, Georg Gäbel, Annette Hüffmeier, Gerd Mink, and Klaus Wachtel (eds). Novum Testamentum Graecum Editio Critica Maior. III Die Apostelgeschichte/Acts of the Apostles. 3 parts, 4 volumes. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2017. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. V. , Akagi, K., Sloan, P. and Nevader, M. (Eds.) (2019) Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. Eisenbrauns: University Park, Pennsylvania. ISBN 9781575069920
Allen, G. V. (2019) The Son of God in the book of Revelation and apocalyptic literature. In: Allen, Garrick V., Akagi, Kai, Sloan, Paul and Nevader, Madhavi (eds.) Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. Eisenbrauns: University Park, Pennsylvania, pp. 53-71. ISBN 9781575069920
Clivaz, C. and Allen, G. (Eds.) (2019) Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Theology. Open Theology. 5(1) [Edited Journal]
Allen, G. V. (Ed.) (2019) The Future of New Testament Textual Scholarship: From H. C. Hoskier to the Editio Critica Maior and Beyond. Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, Germany. ISBN 9783161566622
Allen, G. (2019) 4 Ezra and Revelation 11:1–19: a man from the sea and the two witnesses. In: Blackwell, B.C., Goodrich, J.K. and Maston, J. (eds.) Reading Revelation in Context: John’s Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism. Zondervan: Grand Rapids, pp. 102-108. ISBN 9780310566236
Allen, G. V. (2019) Digital tools for working with New Testament manuscripts. Open Theology, 5(1), pp. 13-28. (doi: 10.1515/opth-2019-0002)
Allen, G. V. (2019) Malchus visual art. In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110229851 (doi: 10.1515/ebr.malchus)
Allen, G. V. (2019) The patient collator and the philology of the beyond: H. C. Hoskier and the New Testament. In: Allen, Garrick V. (ed.) The Future of New Testament Textual Scholarship: From H. C. Hoskier to the Editio Critica Maior and Beyond. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, pp. 3-38. ISBN 9783161566622
Allen, G. V. and Dunne, J. A. (2019) What does ‘Reading’ have to do with it? Ancient engagement with Jewish Scripture. In: Allen, Garrick V. and Dunne, John Anthony (eds.) Ancient Readers and Their Scriptures: The Texts, Versions, and Reading Strategies of the Hebrew Bible in Second Temple and Early Judaism. Brill: Leiden, pp. 243-251. ISBN 9789004383364
Clivaz, C. and Allen, G. V. (2019) The digital humanities in biblical and theological studies. Open Theology, 5(1), pp. 461-465. (doi: 10.1515/opth-2019-0035)
2018
Allen, G. (2018) All you ever wanted to know about blasphemy. [Website]
Allen, G. V. and Dunne, J. A. (Eds.) (2018) Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity. Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004383364
Allen, G. V. (2018) Crafting crosswords: a cruciverbalist approach to Paul's letters. Teaching Theology and Religion, 21(4), p. 304. (doi: 10.1111/teth.12458)
Allen, G. V. (2018) Rewriting and the Gospels. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 41(1), pp. 58-69. (doi: 10.1177/0142064X18788977)
Schmid, J. (2018) Studies in the History of the Greek Text of the Apocalypse: the Ancient Stems. [Scholarly Editions]
Allen, G. V. , Brewer, C. R. and Kinlaw III, D. F. (Eds.) (2018) The Moving Text: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on David Brown and the Bible. SCM Press: London. ISBN 9780334055266
Allen, G. V. (2018) Liv Ingeborg Lied and Hugo Lundhaug, eds. Snapshots of Evolving Traditions: Jewish and Christian Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology. TU 175. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. xviii + 366 pages. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. (2018) Eschatology, migration, and social identity in the late Second Temple period. In: von Bendemann, R. and Tiwald, M. (eds.) Migrationsprozesse im ältesten Christentum. Kohlhammer: Stuttgart, pp. 69-98. ISBN 9783170354722
Allen, G. (2018) Text and tradition: David Brown and New Testament textual criticism. In: Allen, Garrick, Brewer, Christopher and Kinlaw III, Dennis (eds.) The Moving Text: Interdisciplinary Studies on David Brown and the Bible. SCM Press: London, pp. 3-17. ISBN 9780334055266
Allen, G. V. (2018) ‘There is No Glory and No Money in the Work’: H. C. Hoskier and New Testament Textual Criticism. TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, 23, pp. 1-19.
2017
Allen, G. V. (2017) The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture. Series: Society for New Testament studies monograph series (168). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107198128 (doi: 10.1017/9781108182157)
Allen, G. V. (2017) Text und Textwert Revelation Preface and Introduction [English version]. In: Karrer, Martin, Schmid, Ulrich B., Müller, Darius and Lembke, Markus (eds.) Die Apokalypse: Teststellenkollation und Auswertungen = The Apocalypse: A Collation of Textual References. Series: Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung (49). De Gruyter: Berlin, 83*-150*. ISBN 9783110547283 (doi: 10.1515/9783110548433-002)
Allen, G. V. (2017) Textual history and reception history: exegetical variation and the apocalypse. Novum Testamentum, 59(3), pp. 297-319. (doi: 10.1163/15685365-12341568)
Allen, G. V. (2017) Alan Mugridge. Copying Early Christian Texts: A Study of Scribal Practice. WUNT 362. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. xx + 558 pages. ISBN: 9783161546884. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. V. (2017) Zechariah’s horse visions and angelic intermediaries: translation, allusion, and transmission in early Judaism. Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 79(2), pp. 222-239.
Allen, G. V. (2017) Image, memory, and allusion in the textual history of the Apocalypse: GA 2028 and visual exegesis. In: Sigismund, M. and Müller, D. (eds.) Studien zum Text der Apokalypse II. de Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 435-454. ISBN 9783110557053 (doi: 10.1515/9783110558784-011)
2016
Allen, G. V. (2016) The apocalypse in Codex Alexandrinus: exegetical reasoning and singular readings in New Testament Greek manuscripts. Journal of Biblical Literature, 135(4), pp. 859-880. (doi: 10.15699/jbl.1354.2016.3107)
Allen, G. and Dunne, J. A. (2016) Editorial/Editoriale: The Torah and literary composition in early Judaism and Christianity. Henoch, 38(1), p. 3.
Allen, G. V. (2016) Scriptural allusions in the Book of Revelation and the contours of textual research 1900–2014: retrospect and prospects. Current in Biblical Research, 14(3), pp. 319-339. (doi: 10.1177/1476993X14549920)
Allen, G. V. (2016) Laurenţiu Florentin Moţ. Morphological and Syntactical Irregularities in the Book of Revelation: A Greek Hypothesis. Linguistic Biblical Studies 11. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. V. and Dunne, J. A. (Eds.) (2016) Torah Traditions and Ancient Readers in Early Judaism and Christianity. Hennoch. 38(1) [Edited Journal]
Allen, G. V. (2016) The reception of Scripture and exegetical resources in the Scholia in Apocalypsin (GA 2351). In: Houghton, H.A.G. (ed.) Commentaries, Catenae and Biblical Tradition. Gorgias: Piscataway, pp. 141-163. ISBN 9781463205768
2015
Allen, G. V. (2015) Composite citations in Jewish pseudepigraphic works: re-presenting legal traditions in the Second Temple period. In: Adams, Sean A. and Ehord, Seth M. (eds.) Composite Citations in Antiquity: Volume One: Jewish, Graeco-ROman, and Early Christian Uses. Series: Literature of New Testament studies (525). T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc: London, pp. 140-157. ISBN 9780567657978
Allen, G. V. (2015) James Keith Elliott. A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts: Third Edition. NovTSup 160. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. V. , Paul, I. and Woodman, S. P. (Eds.) (2015) The Book of Revelation: Currents in British Research on the Apocalypse. Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen. ISBN 9783161538698
Allen, G. (2015) Introducing currents in British research on the Apocalypse. In: Allen, Garrick V., Paul, Ian and Woodman, Simon P. (eds.) The Book of Revelation: Currents in British Research on the Apocalypse. Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament (2/411). Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, XIII-XVIII. ISBN 9783161538698
Allen, G. (2015) Reusing Scripture in the Book of Revelation: reworking Zechariah 4 in the Apocalypse. In: Allen, Garrick V., Paul, Ian and Woodman, Simon P. (eds.) The Book of Revelation: Currents in British Research on the Apocalypse. Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament (2/411). Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9783161538704
Allen, G. V. (2015) The reuse of scripture in 4QCommentary Genesis C (4Q254) and ‘Messianic Interpretation’ in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Revue de Qumran, 27(2), pp. 303-317. (doi: 10.2143/RQ.27.2.3127283)
Allen, G. V. (2015) Textual pluriformity and allusion in the book of Revelation: the text of Zechariah 4 in the Apocalypse. Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und Kunde der Alteren Kirche, 106(1), pp. 136-145. (doi: 10.1515/znw-2015-0008)
2013
Allen, G. V. (2013) Jonathan D. H. Norton. Contours in the Text: Textual Variation in the Writings of Paul, Josephus and the Yahad. Library of New Testament Studies 430; London: T&T Clark, 2011. xiii + 210 pages (PB). ISBN 9780567521996. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Articles
Allen, G. V. and Fowler, K. (2024) The story of Codex H (GA 015): manuscript migration and primary sources in biblical studies. Journal of Biblical Literature, (Accepted for Publication)
Allen, G. (2024) Studies of shapes: subjectivity in palaeography and understanding. New Testament Studies, (Accepted for Publication)
Allen, G. , Fowler, K. A., Rodenbiker, K. G. , Venetskov, M. , Vercesi, M. and Su, L. (2023) Editing paratexts: Observations from the New Testament’s titles. Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 9(1-2), pp. 187-204. (doi: 10.25592/uhhfdm.14103)
Allen, G. V. (2023) Are there ancient editions of Paul’s letters? The Euthalian apparatus as a storehouse of tradition. Studia Theologica: Nordic Journal of Theology, 77(2), pp. 200-230. (doi: 10.1080/0039338X.2023.2191992) (PMID:38020802) (PMCID:PMC10658798)
Rodenbiker, K. G. and Allen, G. V. (2023) The Euthaliana and the Catholic Epistles. Zeitschrift fur Neues Testament, 26(51), pp. 39-53. (doi: 10.24053/ZNT-2023-0003)
Royle, A. P. and Allen, G. V. (2023) Framing Mark: reading Mark 16 in a Catena manuscript. Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 8(2), pp. 385-400. (doi: 10.25592/uhhfdm.12441)
Allen, G. V. (2022) Early textual scholarship on acts: Observations from the Euthalian quotation lists. Religions, 13(5), 435. (doi: 10.3390/rel13050435)
Allen, G. V. (2022) Titles in the New Testament papyri. New Testament Studies, 68(2), pp. 156-171. (doi: 10.1017/S0028688521000370)
Allen, G. (2021) The possibilities of a gospel codex: GA 2064 (Dublin, CBL W 139), digital editing, and reading in a manuscript culture. Journal of Biblical Literature, 140(2), pp. 409-434. (doi: 10.15699/jbl.1402.2021.10)
Allen, G. V. , Conlan, O., Conran, C., Debruyne, C., Nicholson, M., O’Sullivan, D., Rodenbiker, K. and Royle, A. P. (2021) The New Testament in virtual research environments: titles, Greek manuscripts, data querying. Classics@, 18(1),
Clivaz, C. and Allen, G. V. (2021) Classics@18: Ancient Manuscripts and Virtual Research Environments [Special Co-Editor]. Classics@, 18,
Clivaz, C. and Allen, G. V. (2021) Introduction: ancient manuscripts and virtual research environments. Classics@, 18,
Allen, G. and Clivaz, C. (2020) Ancient manuscripts and virtual research environments. Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 6(2), pp. 205-208. (doi: 10.25592/uhhfdm.8477)
Allen, G. V. (2020) Outils numériques pour travailler avec les manuscrits du Nouveau Testament. Foi et Vie: Revue protestante de culture, 2020(5), pp. 19-27.
Allen, G. V. and Royle, A. P. (2020) Paratexts seeking understanding: manuscripts and aesthetic cognitivism. Religions, 11(10), 523. (doi: 10.3390/rel11100523)
Allen, G. V. (2020) Manuscripts beyond the Canon. Ancient Jew Review,
Allen, G. V. and Rodenbiker, K. G. (2020) Titles of the New Testament (TiNT): a new approach to manuscripts and the history of interpretation. Early Christianity, 11, pp. 265-280. (doi: 10.1628/ec-2020-0012)
Allen, G. V. (2019) Paratexts and the reception history of the Apocalypse. Journal of Theological Studies, 70, pp. 600-632. (doi: 10.1093/jts/flz092)
Allen, G. V. (2019) Digital tools for working with New Testament manuscripts. Open Theology, 5(1), pp. 13-28. (doi: 10.1515/opth-2019-0002)
Clivaz, C. and Allen, G. V. (2019) The digital humanities in biblical and theological studies. Open Theology, 5(1), pp. 461-465. (doi: 10.1515/opth-2019-0035)
Allen, G. V. (2018) Crafting crosswords: a cruciverbalist approach to Paul's letters. Teaching Theology and Religion, 21(4), p. 304. (doi: 10.1111/teth.12458)
Allen, G. V. (2018) Rewriting and the Gospels. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 41(1), pp. 58-69. (doi: 10.1177/0142064X18788977)
Allen, G. V. (2018) ‘There is No Glory and No Money in the Work’: H. C. Hoskier and New Testament Textual Criticism. TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, 23, pp. 1-19.
Allen, G. V. (2017) Textual history and reception history: exegetical variation and the apocalypse. Novum Testamentum, 59(3), pp. 297-319. (doi: 10.1163/15685365-12341568)
Allen, G. V. (2017) Zechariah’s horse visions and angelic intermediaries: translation, allusion, and transmission in early Judaism. Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 79(2), pp. 222-239.
Allen, G. V. (2016) The apocalypse in Codex Alexandrinus: exegetical reasoning and singular readings in New Testament Greek manuscripts. Journal of Biblical Literature, 135(4), pp. 859-880. (doi: 10.15699/jbl.1354.2016.3107)
Allen, G. and Dunne, J. A. (2016) Editorial/Editoriale: The Torah and literary composition in early Judaism and Christianity. Henoch, 38(1), p. 3.
Allen, G. V. (2016) Scriptural allusions in the Book of Revelation and the contours of textual research 1900–2014: retrospect and prospects. Current in Biblical Research, 14(3), pp. 319-339. (doi: 10.1177/1476993X14549920)
Allen, G. V. (2015) The reuse of scripture in 4QCommentary Genesis C (4Q254) and ‘Messianic Interpretation’ in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Revue de Qumran, 27(2), pp. 303-317. (doi: 10.2143/RQ.27.2.3127283)
Allen, G. V. (2015) Textual pluriformity and allusion in the book of Revelation: the text of Zechariah 4 in the Apocalypse. Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und Kunde der Alteren Kirche, 106(1), pp. 136-145. (doi: 10.1515/znw-2015-0008)
Books
Allen, G. V. , Fowler, K. A., Scieri, E. and Venetskov, M. (2025) The Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts. Brill: Leiden. (Accepted for Publication)
Allen, G. V. (2024) Words Are Not Enough: Paratexts, Manuscripts, and the Real New Testament. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids. ISBN 9780802883353
Allen, G. V. (2020) Manuscripts of the Book of Revelation: New Philology, Paratexts, Reception. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198849056 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198849056.001.0001)
Allen, G. V. (2017) The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture. Series: Society for New Testament studies monograph series (168). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107198128 (doi: 10.1017/9781108182157)
Book Sections
Allen, G. V. (2025) Revelation. In: Dhont, M. (ed.) T&T Clark Handbook for Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek. Bloomsbury: London. (In Press)
Bahena-Rivera, A. , Rodenbiker, K. , Scheepers, C. and Allen, G. V. (2025) Paratexts, manuscripts, literature, and understanding. In: Brewer, C. (ed.) Art Seeking Understanding: Conceptual, Empirical, and Experimental Approaches. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids. (Accepted for Publication)
Allen, G. V. (2023) Smells like teen spirit: Steve Moyise and G. K. Beale on the use of scripture in Revelation in the 1990s. In: Docherty, Susan E. and Smith, Steve (eds.) The Scriptures in the Book of Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature: Essays in Honour of Steve Moyise. Series: The library of New Testament studies (634). Bloomsbury Publishing, Imprint T&T Clark. ISBN 9780567695895
Allen, G. V. (2023) Aramaica qumranica apocalyptica and the book of Revelation. In: DiTommaso, Lorenzo and Goff, Matthew (eds.) Reimagining Apocalypticism: Apocalyptic Literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Writings. SBL Press: Atlanta, pp. 403-428. ISBN 9781628375343
Allen, G. V. (2023) Eschatology. In: Henze, Matthias and Lincicum, David (eds.) Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings: The Use of the Old Testament in the New. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company: Grand Rapids, Michigan, pp. 743-764. ISBN 9780802874443
Allen, G. V. (2023) Alfred Chester Beatty and his Biblical (and other) Papyri at Ninety. In: Allen, Garrick Vernon, Gad, Usama Ali Mohamed, Rodenbiker, Kelsie Gayle, Royle, Anthony Philip and Unkel, Jill (eds.) The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri at Ninety. Series: Manuscripta Biblica. De Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9783110781014 (doi: 10.1515/9783110781304-001)
Allen, G. V. , Dilley, P. and Phillips, P. (2022) Textual approaches, image analysis, and bottom-up approaches in religious studies. In: Allen, Garrick V., Schulthess, Sara, Dilley, Paul and Phillips, Peter (eds.) New Approaches to Textual and Image Analysis in Early Jewish and Christian Studies. Brill: Leiden, pp. 1-4. ISBN 9789004518131 (doi: 10.1163/9789004515116_002)
Allen, G. V. (2022) Libraries, special libraries, and John of Patmos. In: Norton, Jonathan D.H., Allen, Garrick and Askin, Lindsey A. (eds.) Reading, Writing, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean. Series: Education, literary culture, and religious practice in the ancient world. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350265028
Allen, G. V. (2021) Exodus traditions in the synoptic gospels. In: Kowalski, Beate and Docherty, Susan (eds.) The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature. Series: Themes in Biblical Narrative, 30. Brill: Leiden; Boston, pp. 201-221. ISBN 9789004471122 (doi: 10.1163/9789004471122_012)
Allen, G. V. (2020) An anti-Islamic marginal comment in the Apocalypse of “Codex Reuchlin” (GA 2814) and its tradition. In: Karrer, Martin (ed.) Der Codex Reuchlins zur Apokalypse: Byzanz – Basler Konzil – Erasmus. Series: Manuscripta Biblica (5). De Gruyter: Berlin ; Boston, pp. 193-198. ISBN 9783110674118 (doi: 10.1515/9783110675504-009)
Allen, G. V. (2020) Monks, manuscripts, Muhammad, and the future of the critical editions. In: Anderson, Bradford A. (ed.) From Scrolls to Scrolling: Sacred Texts, Materiality, and Dynamic Media Cultures. Series: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - tension, transmission, transformation (12). De Gruyter: Berlin ; Boston, pp. 181-211. ISBN 9783110629590 (doi: 10.1515/9783110634440-009)
Allen, G. (2020) Metatron visual art. In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110229851
Allen, G. V. (2019) The Son of God in the book of Revelation and apocalyptic literature. In: Allen, Garrick V., Akagi, Kai, Sloan, Paul and Nevader, Madhavi (eds.) Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. Eisenbrauns: University Park, Pennsylvania, pp. 53-71. ISBN 9781575069920
Allen, G. (2019) 4 Ezra and Revelation 11:1–19: a man from the sea and the two witnesses. In: Blackwell, B.C., Goodrich, J.K. and Maston, J. (eds.) Reading Revelation in Context: John’s Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism. Zondervan: Grand Rapids, pp. 102-108. ISBN 9780310566236
Allen, G. V. (2019) Malchus visual art. In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. de Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110229851 (doi: 10.1515/ebr.malchus)
Allen, G. V. (2019) The patient collator and the philology of the beyond: H. C. Hoskier and the New Testament. In: Allen, Garrick V. (ed.) The Future of New Testament Textual Scholarship: From H. C. Hoskier to the Editio Critica Maior and Beyond. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, pp. 3-38. ISBN 9783161566622
Allen, G. V. and Dunne, J. A. (2019) What does ‘Reading’ have to do with it? Ancient engagement with Jewish Scripture. In: Allen, Garrick V. and Dunne, John Anthony (eds.) Ancient Readers and Their Scriptures: The Texts, Versions, and Reading Strategies of the Hebrew Bible in Second Temple and Early Judaism. Brill: Leiden, pp. 243-251. ISBN 9789004383364
Allen, G. (2018) Eschatology, migration, and social identity in the late Second Temple period. In: von Bendemann, R. and Tiwald, M. (eds.) Migrationsprozesse im ältesten Christentum. Kohlhammer: Stuttgart, pp. 69-98. ISBN 9783170354722
Allen, G. (2018) Text and tradition: David Brown and New Testament textual criticism. In: Allen, Garrick, Brewer, Christopher and Kinlaw III, Dennis (eds.) The Moving Text: Interdisciplinary Studies on David Brown and the Bible. SCM Press: London, pp. 3-17. ISBN 9780334055266
Allen, G. V. (2017) Text und Textwert Revelation Preface and Introduction [English version]. In: Karrer, Martin, Schmid, Ulrich B., Müller, Darius and Lembke, Markus (eds.) Die Apokalypse: Teststellenkollation und Auswertungen = The Apocalypse: A Collation of Textual References. Series: Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung (49). De Gruyter: Berlin, 83*-150*. ISBN 9783110547283 (doi: 10.1515/9783110548433-002)
Allen, G. V. (2017) Image, memory, and allusion in the textual history of the Apocalypse: GA 2028 and visual exegesis. In: Sigismund, M. and Müller, D. (eds.) Studien zum Text der Apokalypse II. de Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 435-454. ISBN 9783110557053 (doi: 10.1515/9783110558784-011)
Allen, G. V. (2016) The reception of Scripture and exegetical resources in the Scholia in Apocalypsin (GA 2351). In: Houghton, H.A.G. (ed.) Commentaries, Catenae and Biblical Tradition. Gorgias: Piscataway, pp. 141-163. ISBN 9781463205768
Allen, G. V. (2015) Composite citations in Jewish pseudepigraphic works: re-presenting legal traditions in the Second Temple period. In: Adams, Sean A. and Ehord, Seth M. (eds.) Composite Citations in Antiquity: Volume One: Jewish, Graeco-ROman, and Early Christian Uses. Series: Literature of New Testament studies (525). T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc: London, pp. 140-157. ISBN 9780567657978
Allen, G. (2015) Introducing currents in British research on the Apocalypse. In: Allen, Garrick V., Paul, Ian and Woodman, Simon P. (eds.) The Book of Revelation: Currents in British Research on the Apocalypse. Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament (2/411). Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, XIII-XVIII. ISBN 9783161538698
Allen, G. (2015) Reusing Scripture in the Book of Revelation: reworking Zechariah 4 in the Apocalypse. In: Allen, Garrick V., Paul, Ian and Woodman, Simon P. (eds.) The Book of Revelation: Currents in British Research on the Apocalypse. Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament (2/411). Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9783161538704
Book Reviews
Allen, G. V. (2019) Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman. To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. V. (2019) Holger Strutwolf, Georg Gäbel, Annette Hüffmeier, Gerd Mink, and Klaus Wachtel (eds). Novum Testamentum Graecum Editio Critica Maior. III Die Apostelgeschichte/Acts of the Apostles. 3 parts, 4 volumes. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2017. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. V. (2018) Liv Ingeborg Lied and Hugo Lundhaug, eds. Snapshots of Evolving Traditions: Jewish and Christian Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology. TU 175. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. xviii + 366 pages. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. V. (2017) Alan Mugridge. Copying Early Christian Texts: A Study of Scribal Practice. WUNT 362. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. xx + 558 pages. ISBN: 9783161546884. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. V. (2016) Laurenţiu Florentin Moţ. Morphological and Syntactical Irregularities in the Book of Revelation: A Greek Hypothesis. Linguistic Biblical Studies 11. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. V. (2015) James Keith Elliott. A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts: Third Edition. NovTSup 160. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. V. (2014) James Barr. Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr. 3 volumes. Edited by John Barton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013-2014. 1985 pages (HB). ISBN 9780198261926. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Allen, G. V. (2013) Jonathan D. H. Norton. Contours in the Text: Textual Variation in the Writings of Paul, Josephus and the Yahad. Library of New Testament Studies 430; London: T&T Clark, 2011. xiii + 210 pages (PB). ISBN 9780567521996. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, [Book Review]
Edited Books
Allen, G. V. , Gad, U. A. M., Rodenbiker, K. G. , Royle, A. P. and Unkel, J. (Eds.) (2023) The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri at Ninety. Series: Manuscripta Biblica. De Gruyter: Berlin. ISBN 9783110781014
Allen, G. V. , Schulthess, S., Dilley, P. and Phillips, P. (Eds.) (2022) New Approaches to Textual and Image Analysis in Early Jewish and Christian Studies. Series: Digital biblical studies. Brill: Leiden ; Boston. ISBN 9789004518131
Norton, J. D.H., Allen, G. and Askin, L. A. (Eds.) (2022) Reading, Writing, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean. Series: Education, literary culture, and religious practice in the ancient world. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350265028
Allen, G. V. , Akagi, K., Sloan, P. and Nevader, M. (Eds.) (2019) Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. Eisenbrauns: University Park, Pennsylvania. ISBN 9781575069920
Allen, G. V. (Ed.) (2019) The Future of New Testament Textual Scholarship: From H. C. Hoskier to the Editio Critica Maior and Beyond. Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, Germany. ISBN 9783161566622
Allen, G. V. and Dunne, J. A. (Eds.) (2018) Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity. Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004383364
Allen, G. V. , Brewer, C. R. and Kinlaw III, D. F. (Eds.) (2018) The Moving Text: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on David Brown and the Bible. SCM Press: London. ISBN 9780334055266
Allen, G. V. , Paul, I. and Woodman, S. P. (Eds.) (2015) The Book of Revelation: Currents in British Research on the Apocalypse. Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen. ISBN 9783161538698
Edited Journals
Allen, G. V. and Rodenbiker, K. G. (Eds.) (2022) Titles, Paratexts, and Manuscript Communication: Jewish and Christian Literature in Material Context. Religions. [Edited Journal]
Clivaz, C. and Allen, G. (Eds.) (2019) Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Theology. Open Theology. 5(1) [Edited Journal]
Allen, G. V. and Dunne, J. A. (Eds.) (2016) Torah Traditions and Ancient Readers in Early Judaism and Christianity. Hennoch. 38(1) [Edited Journal]
Scholarly Editions
Royle, A., Allen, G. and Monier, M. (2021) GA 2604 f.176v, f.177r, f.177v and f.178r. [Scholarly Editions]
Schmid, J. (2018) Studies in the History of the Greek Text of the Apocalypse: the Ancient Stems. [Scholarly Editions]
Research Reports or Papers
Allen, G. V. (2023) Transcription Guidelines - Annotating the New Testament: Codex H, Euthalian Traditions, and the Humanities project. [Research Reports or Papers]
Allen, G. V. and Rodenbiker, K. G. (2021) TiNT Project Transcription Guidelines. [Research Reports or Papers]
Allen, G. V. (2020) Aesthetic Cognitivism in the Arts, Theology, Biblical Studies, and Manuscript Cultures: An Annotated Bibliography. [Research Reports or Papers]
Exhibitions
Allen, G. V. , Rodenbiker, K. G. and Royle, A. P. (2021) Fragments : The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri in Context. [Exhibitions]
Audio
Allen, G. (2022) AT THE THRESHOLD: To Imagine That. [Audio]
Allen, G. (2020) Insights Hidden in Plain Sight. [Audio]
Website
Allen, G. V. (2024) What Are Paratexts and How Do They Change How We Read the Bible? [Website]
Allen, G. V. (2024) What can we Learn from Manuscripts of the New Testament? [Website]
Allen, G. , Rodenbiker, K. , Vercesi, M., Fowler, K., Venetskov, M. and Su, L. (2024) Titles of the New Testament Database and Search Tool. [Website] (In Press)
Allen, G. (2021) Titles of the New Testament (TiNT). [Website]
Allen, G. (2020) What happened on the first Easter Sunday? [Website]
Allen, G. (2018) All you ever wanted to know about blasphemy. [Website]
Grants
2022: Templeton Religion Trust (£2,369,995) - Paratexts Seeking Understanding
2022: AHRC Early Career Research Grant (£202,170) - Annotating the New Testament: Codex H, Euthalian Traditions, and the Humanities
2021: Templeton Religion Trust (£165,669) - the Paratext Network: Field-building an Empirical Approach to Literature and Knowledge, a project that brings together manuscript scholars, aestheticians, cognitivie scientists, and curators to examine the aesthetic value of paratexts in the context of aesthetic cognitivism
2020: Irish Research Council, New Foundation (€12,000) - a project on the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri in the run up to a major exhibition in 2022
2019: European Research Council, Starting Grant (€1,498,451) - the Titles of the New Testament (TiNT) project, exploring the titular traditions of the New Testament's manuscripts
2019: Royal Irish Academy, Charlemont Grant (€1,800) - to support research on the book Manuscripts of the Book of Revelation: New Philology, Paratexts, Reception (Oxford University Press, 2020)
2019: Templeton Religion Trust (€203,844) - the Paratextual Understanding project, working to edit CBL W 139 in the context of aesthetic cognitivism. See this project video.
2018-2019: Enterprise Ireland, ERC Applicantion Support Grants (€7,200)
2016: Irish Research Council, New Foundations (€15,000) - a project on the future of New Testament textual scholarship through the scholarship of Herman Hoskier. See here and here.
Supervision
I am open to PhD enquiries in areas related to my research interests. Please contact me directly with enquiries and funding opportunities.
Research datasets
2025
Allen, G. , Fowler, K. and Phelps, M. (2025) Codex H (GA 015) Multispectral Images. [Data Collection]
