Willoughby Deming

EDUCATION:

• B.A., College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Religion, 1978
• M.A., University of Chicago, Divinity, 1979
• Göttingen University, Germany, 1983-87
• Ph.D., University of Chicago, Bible, 1991

PROFESSIONAL STATUS:

• Professor Emeritus, University of Portland, Portland, OR, 2021- present

BOOKS:

• 2005: Rethinking Religion: A Concise Introduction (NY: Oxford University)
• 2004: Paul on Marriage and Celibacy: The Hellenistic Background of 1 Corinthians 7, 2d ed. with a foreword by Raymond F. Collins (Grand Rapids, MI.: Wm. B. Eerdmans)

WORKS EDITED:

• 2025: 2d ed. of Understanding the Religions of the World: An Introduction (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell)
• 2009: Salzburg and the Jews: A Historical Walking Guide, by Stan Nadel (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock)
• 1990: “Methods for the Reconstruction of Scrolls from Scattered Fragments,” by Hartmut Stegemann, in Archaeology and History in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The New York University Conference in Memory of Yigael Yadin (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Sup. Ser. 8; JSOT/ASOR Monograph 2), ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic), pp. 189-220
• 1988: “The Origins of the Temple Scroll,” by Hartmut Stegemann, in Congress Volume: Jerusalem 1986, ed. J.A. Emerton (Leiden: E.J. Brill), pp. 235-56

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:

• 2026: “The Purpose of Romans as a Guide to Evangelism (Rom 1:13–15),” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 117.1 (2026) 26-43.
• 2026: “Ring Composition: Overview and Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography,” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie (forthcoming).
• 2016: “Paul and Indifferent Things,” vol. 2, chap. 3, in Paul and the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook, ed. J. Paul Sampley, 2d ed. (London: Bloomsbury/T & T Clark)
• 2009: “Abstinence. II. NT,” in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 1:245-46
• 2009: “How Catholic?”, pp. 61-65 in Sacred Imagination, Charles B. Gordon, C.S.C., and Margaret Monahan Hogan, eds. (Portland, OR: University of Portland Garaventa Center)
• 2008: “Marriage: III, New Testament,” in Religion Past and Present, vol. 6
• 2006: “Celibacy” in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, ed. K. D. Sakenfeld, et al., (Nashville, TN: Abingdon)
• 2001: “Paul, Gaius, and the ‘Law of Persons’: The Conceptualization of Roman Law in the Early Classical Period,” Classical Quarterly 51: 218-230
• 1999: “Ehe: III. NT,” in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4th ed., vol. 2, coll. 1073-1075
• 1996: “The Unity of 1 Corinthians 5-6,” Journal of Biblical Literature, 115: 291315
• 1995: “A Diatribe Pattern in 1 Cor. 7:21-22: A New Perspective on Paul’s Directions to Slaves,” Novum Testamentum 37:130-37
• 1990: “Mark 9.42-10.12, Matt 5.27-32, and b. Nid. 13b: A First Century Discussion of Male Sexuality,” New Testament Studies 36: 130-41