Alicia Myers

Education

• Ph.D., Baylor University, Biblical Studies (2010)                                           
• Th.M., Duke University Divinity School (2006)
• BA, Indiana Wesleyan University (2004)

Biography

Alicia Myers joined the Department of Religion in fall 2025 after teaching at Campbell University (2014-2025) and United Theological Seminary (2011-2014). As a member of the Colloquium Ioanneum (John Colloquy), she is also a Research Fellow in the Department of Old and New Testaments at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Her current projects include a book and a commentary on 1-3 John, a short volume on Hebrews, and a collection (co-edited with Catrin H. Williams) on the Johannine writings. She is married and has two sons as well as a large spotted dog who keep her busy when she’s not writing or teaching. 

Academic Interests and Research

Johannine literature and theology; gender studies and embodiment; epiphanies and divine transformation; rhetoric, social memory, and cultural trauma; Catholic Epistles

Professional Activities

Editorial board member, Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal for the Study of the 

New Testament, and Catholic Biblical Quarterly

Member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS)

Member of the Colloquium Ioanneum

Member of the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (president, 2024)

Books

2025. The Theology of the Gospel of John. New New Testament Theology. Cambridge University Press. 

2022. An Introduction to the Gospel and Acts. Essentials of Biblical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.      

2020. Come and Read: Interpretive Approaches to the Gospel of John. Co-edited with Lindsey S. Jodrey. Interpreting Johannine Literature 1. Lanham, MD: Lexington/Fortress Academic. 

2019. Reading John and 1, 2, 3 John. Reading the New Testament Commentary: 2nd Series. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys. 

2017. Blessed Among Women? Mothers and Motherhood in the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

2015. Abiding Words: Perspectives on the Use of Scripture in the Gospel of John. Co-edited with Bruce G. Schuchard. SBL Resources for Biblical Studies Series 81. Atlanta: SBL Press. 

2012. Characterizing Jesus: A Rhetorical Analysis on the Fourth Gospel’s Use of Scripture in Its Presentation of Jesus. Library of New Testament Studies 458. London: T&T Clark. 

Selected Research Articles and Chapters (since 2015)

“Make Them Holy in Truth’: Jesus’s Prayer for Ongoing Theophany in John 17,” New Testament Studies, forthcoming.

“Whose Attendants (Ὑπηρέται)? Overlooked Characters and Questions of Allegiance.” Pages 159–180 in Revelation and Conflict in John 7 and 8: Historical, Literary, and Theological Readings from the Colloquium Ioanneum 2023 in Vienna. Edited by R. Alan Culpepper and Jörg Frey. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 526. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024.

“Jesus’s Apotropaic Theophany: Guarding and Sanctifying Believers in John’s Gospel.” Pages 75–85 in Early Christology: John Among New Testament Authors. Essays in Honor of Marianne Meye Thompson. Edited by Chris Blumhofer, Diane Chen, and Joel B. Green. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2024.

“Who Are the Children of God? Rhetoric, Memory, and Creating Communities with the Johannine Writings.” Pages 175–95 in The Johannine Community in Current Debate. Edited by Christopher W. Skinner and Christopher Seglenieks. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.

“Marriage and Divorce.” Pages 452–59 in Behind the Scenes of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts. Edited by Bruce Longenecker, T. J. Lang, and Elizabeth Shively. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2024.

“A Translation for Everyone: Recovering Helen Barrett Montgomery’s Centenary Translation 100 Years Later.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 51 (2024): 391–403.

“Deciphering What ‘We Know’: Rhetoric, Epistemology, and Audience Participation in John 3,” Interpretation 77/4 (2023): 323–35. https://doi.org/10.1177/00209643231183965

“Revelation through Violence? Jesus in the Temple in John 2:13–22,” Review & Expositor 120 (2023): 46-59. online. https://doi.org/10.1177/00346373231199503.

“Catching Jesus with Another Woman: Katharine Bushnell’s and Helen Barrett Montgomery’s Interpretations of John 7:53–8:11,” Perspectives in Religious Studies 50 (2023): 247–60.

“Jesus, the Great Emancipator: Helen Barrett Montgomery’s Translation of the Gospels in the Centenary New Testament.” American Baptist Quarterly 40/3 (2021): 193–214.

“Jesus’s Ongoing Ministry in 1 John: Priestly Purification and Intercession in 1 John 1:5-2:2,” Perspectives in Religious Studies 48 (2021): 243–55. 

“Us and Them: Lessons from 1 John’s Antichrist Polemic,” Word & World 41/1 (2021): 42-50.

“Gender, Rhetoric, and Recognition: Characterizing Jesus and (Re)defining Masculinity in the Gospel of John.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 38 (2015): 191-218.

Courses Taught at Baylor

REL 1310 The Christian Scriptures (Fall 2025)

REL 3312 The Johannie Literature (Fall 2025)