Maurice Casey

Philip Maurice Casey (18 October 1942 – 10 May 2014) was a British scholar of New Testament and early Christianity. He was an emeritus professor at the University of Nottingham, having served there as Professor of New Testament Languages and Literature at the Department of Theology.

Biography

Casey was born in Sunderland. His father was the Anglican vicar of Wheatley Hill, but after his death his mother moved to Chevington and Casey to boarding school at Woodbridge School, Suffolk. He entered Durham University having intended to become an Anglican priest, but changed his views in 1962 while completing his undergraduate degree in theology. Casey stated that he had not held any religious beliefs since. In 1978 he gained a doctorate in Divinity from Durham.

Fields of study

Aramaic sources behind the New Testament

Casey's work argued strongly for Aramaic sources behind the New Testament documents, specifically for Q and the Gospel of Mark.

Casey's Aramaic ideas were challenged by Stanley E. Porter in Excursus: A response to Maurice Casey on the Languages of Jesus citing modern scholarship, that the linguistic environment of Roman Palestine was probably multilingual.

Son of Man

He also contributed works on early Christology and the use of the term Son of Man within the New Testament Gospels in reference to Jesus.

Works

Thesis

• Casey, Maurice (1976). The interpretation of Daniel VII in Jewish and Patristic literature and in the New Testament: an approach to the Son of man problem (Ph.D.). London: British Library. OCLC 640114346.

Books

• ——— (1979). Son of Man : The Interpretation and Influence of Daniel 7. London: SPCK. ISBN 9780281036974. OCLC 6338109.
• ——— (1991). From Jewish Prophet to Gentile God: The Origins and Development of New Testament Christology. Edward Cadbury lectures, 1985-86. Cambridge, England & Louisville, KY: T&T Clark & Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780227679203. OCLC 24302203.
• ——— (1996). Is John's Gospel True?. London & New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415146302. OCLC 36061908.
• ——— (1998). Aramaic Sources of Mark's Gospel. Society for New Testament Studies - Monograph Series. 102. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511035975. OCLC 49726109.
• ——— (2002). An Aramaic Approach to Q : Sources for the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Society for New Testament Studies - Monograph Series. 122. Cambridge, UK & New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511061158. OCLC 57146437.
• ——— (2007). The Solution to The "Son of Man" Problem. Library of New Testament Studies. 343. London & New York: T & T Clark. ISBN 9780567140494. OCLC 741690930.
• ——— (2010). Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of His Life and Teaching. London & New York: T & T Clark. ISBN 9780567104083. OCLC 858048706.
• ——— (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument Or Mythicist Myths?. London: T & T Clark. ISBN 9780567447623. OCLC 858358284.

Chapters

• ——— (2008). "Response to Michael Bird". In Bird, Michael F.; Crossley, James G. (eds.). How did Christianity begin?: a believer and non-believer examine the evidence. London & Peabody, MA: SPCK & Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 9780281058501. OCLC 233940908.

Festschrift

• Crossley, James G., ed. (2008). Judaism, Jewish Identities, and the Gospel Tradition: Essays in Honour of Maurice Casey. London & Oakville, CT: Equinox Pub. ISBN 9781845532833. OCLC 136778670.