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Ph.D.  Dissertation: "Evidence of Conflation in Mark?  A Study in the Synoptic Problem." Written under the direction of Professors J. Louis Martyn, Reginald H.Fuller, and Raymond E. Brown

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. “Sepphoris, The Ornament of All Galilee.” Many Faces to the Bible: Papers from the First Bates College Symposium on Religion and Contemporary Issues, edited by Robert W. Allison and Mishael M. Caspi. Lewiston, ME: Bates College, 1997, pp. 146-154.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. and Tristram C. Hussey.   "Palynology and Cultural Process: An Exercise in the New Archaeology."  Archaeology and the Galilee:  Texts and Contexts in the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Periods, edited by Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough. South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism, 143. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997, pp. 151-163.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. Contributor to Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture. Edited by Rebecca Martin Nagy, Carol L. Meyers, Eric M. Meyers, and Zeev Weiss. Raleigh: The North Carolina Museum of Art, 1996. Distributed by Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, IN.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. “Computer Recording, Analysis, and Interpretation,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East,  Eric M. Meyers, Editor in Chief. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, Volume 2, pp. 57-59.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. “The Digmaster Database: http://www.cobb.msstate.edu/figurines/” Biblical Archaeologist., 59:2 (1996), pp. 128-129.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "The Gush Halav Synagogue," Dictionary of Biblical Judiasm, Jacob Neusner and William Green, editors.  New York:  Macmillan Publishing Company, 1996, Volume I, pp. 263-264.

Strange, James F.,  Thomas R.W. Longstaff, and Dennis E. Groh, "Zippori--1991" in Ayala Sussman, et. al., editors,  Excavations and Surveys  in Israel, Vol. 13.  Jerusalem:  The Israel Antiquities Authority, 1995, pp. 29-30, 1 figure.

Strange, James F., Dennis E. Groh and Thomas R. W. Longstaff.  "Excavations at Sepphoris: The Location and Identification of Shikhin, Part I."Israel Exploration Journal , 44 (1994), pp. 216-227.  This article is also available on the World Wide Web in a hypertext version prepared by Thomas R. W. Longstaff.

Strange, James F., Dennis E. Groh and Thomas R. W. Longstaff with contribution by D. Adan-Bayewitz, F. Asaro, I Perlman and H. V. Michel. "Excavations at Sepphoris: The Location and Identification of Shikhin, Part II."Israel Exploration Journal , 45 (1995), pp. 171-187.  This article is already available on the World Wide Web in a hypertext version prepared by Thomas R. W. Longstaff.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W.  "Hypertext as a Medium for Archaeological Publication,"   Archaeological Computing Newsletter , 39  (Oxford), pp. 1-2.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Gaulantis."  The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Volume 2.  David Noel Freedman, Editor-in-Chief.  (New York: Doubleday, 1992), p. 911.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Modein."  The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Volume 4.  David Noel Freedman, Editor-in-Chief.  (New York:  Doubleday, 1992). pp. 894-895.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Gush Halav in the Ancient Literary Sources." Excavations at the Ancient  Synagogue of Gush Halav  by Eric M. Meyers and Carol L. Meyers with James F.Strange.  Published for the American Schools of Oriental Research by Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake,Indiana, 1990, pp. 16-22.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Nazareth and Sepphoris: Insights into Christian Origins." in Christ and His Communities: Essays in Honor of Reginald H.  Fuller, edited by Arland J. Hultgren and Barbara Hall.  Cincinnati:  Forward Movement  Publications, 1990, pp. 8-15.  Simultaneously published in the Anglican Theological Review, Supplementary Series Number Eleven (March, 1990), pp. 8-15.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Order in the Synoptic Gospels:  A Response. " The Second Century, (Vol. 6, No. 2), pp. 98-106.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. and Page A. Thomas.  The Synoptic Problem:  A Bibliography, 1716-1988.  New Gospel Studies, 4. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1988.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W., "Abba", "God", "Holy Spirit", "Most High", "Image of God", "The Trinity". Harpers Bible Dictionary, New York:  Harper and Row, 1985; Revised Edition, HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.

Strange, James F. and Thomas R. W. Longstaff, "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1983. "  Notes and News, Israel Exploration Journal, 34 (1984), pp. 51-52; "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1985 (II), " Notes and News, Israel Exploration Journal, 35 (1985), pp. 297-299; "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1986 (II), "Notes and News, Israel Exploration Journal, 37 (1987), pp. 278-280; James F. Strange, Dennis E. Groh and Thomas R. W. Longstaff. "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1987 (II), " Notes and News, Israel Exploration Journal, 38 (1988), pp. 188-190; "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1988, " Notes and News, Israel Exploration Journal, 39 (1989), pp. 104-106.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. Review of The Archaeology of the New Testament. By Jack Finegan.  Journal of Biblical Literature, 103 (No. 2, June 1984), pp. 281-282.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Crisis and Christology:  The Theology of the Gospel of Mark. " New Synoptic Studies, ed. William R.Farmer. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1983.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. Review of Jews and Christians in Dialogue by John Koenig.  Journal of Biblical Literature, 101 (No. 3,September 1982), pp. 454-456.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. Review of God's People in Christ: New Testament Perspectives on the Church and Judaism by Daniel J. Harrington. Interpretation, 35 (Part 2; April, 1981)pp. 202-204.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. Short review of On the Independence of Matthew and Mark  by John M. Rist. Phoenix.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. Major review of On the Independence of Matthew and Mark  by John M. Rist. Journal of Biblical Literature, 100 (No. 1, March 1981) pp. 127-130.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "The Women at the Tomb: Matthew 28:1 Re- Examined." New Testament Studies, 27 (No. 2, January 1981) pp. 277-282.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Crisis and Christology:  The Theology of the Gospel of Mark. " Perkins Journal, XXXIII (No. 4, summer 1980), pp. 28-40.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Mark and Roger of Hovedon: A Response." The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 41 (No. 1,January 1979), pp. 118-120.

Tyson, Joseph B. and Thomas R. W. Longstaff.  Synoptic Abstract: Volume XV of the Computer Bible, Wooster, Ohio: Biblical Research Associates, 1978. [Now out-of-print; to be republished in an electronic version by Questia Media, Inc., Houston, TX]

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "At the Colloquium's Conclusion." Chapter 9 in J. J. Griesbach: Synoptic and Text-Critical Studies 1776-1976, Ibid., pp. 170-175.

Orchard, Bernard and Thomas R. W. Longstaff, eds. J. J. Griesbach:  Synoptic and Text-Critical Studies 1776-1976. (S.N.T.S. Monograph Series, No. 34) Cambridge:  The University Press, 1978.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. Review of Biblical Studies in Contemporary Thought , edited by Miriam Ward, R. S. M. Horizons, 5 (No. 1,Spring, 1978) pp. 99-101.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. Evidence of Conflation in Mark?  A Study in the Synoptic Problem. (S. B. L. Dissertation Series, No 28) Missoula, Montana: The Scholars Press, 1977.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "Empty Tomb and Absent Lord: Mark's Interpretation of Tradition." Society of Biblical Literature:  1976 Seminar Papers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Society of Biblical Literature, 1976.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "A Critical Note in Response to J. C. O'Neill, " New Testament Studies, 23 (No. 1, October 1976), pp. 116-117.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "The Ordination of Women:  A Biblical Perspective. " Anglican Theological Review, LVII (No. 3, July 1975), pp. 316-327.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. "The Minor Agreements:  An Examination of the Basic Argument. " The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, XXXVII (No. 2, April 1975), pp. 184-192.

Fuller, Reginald H., H.P. Sanders, and Thomas R. W. Longstaff, "The Synoptic Problem:  After Ten Years. " Perkins Journal, XXVII (No. 2, Winter 1975), pp. 63-74.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W., Major Book Review of Mark the Evangelist  by Willi Marxsen. Union Seminary Quarterly Review, XXV (No. 4, summer 1970), pp. 561-564.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. Review of The Language of the New Testament  by Eugene Van Ness Goetchius. The Alumni Bulletin:  Bangor Theological Seminary, XLI (No. 3, July 1966), p. 35.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. Numerous short reviews and notes also appear in Religious Studies Review and in other publications.

Longstaff, Thomas R. W. “What Are Those Women Doing at the Tomb of Jesus? Perspectives on Matthew 28:1.”  A Feminist Companion to Matthew, Amy-Jill Levine, editor. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. [Publication date is August 2001]

Peabody, David B., Allan J. McNicol and Lamar Cope, editors. Mark's Use of Matthew and Luke. A Further Step in Demonstrating the Two Gospel Hypothesis. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 2001.  [I will be listed as a contributing author and will, with David Peabody, publish a CD that will accompany this volume. Publication date is November, 2001]

Strange, James F. and Thomas R. W. Longstaff. Sepphoris, The Citadel and the Theatre: A Preliminary Report (to be published by the University of South Florida Press).

I serve as a network editor for Religious Studies Review with responsibility for writing and assigning reviews of books in the area of archaeology in the Hellenistic through Byzantine periods.

“Sepphoris: The Ornament of All Galilee.” An invited paper presented in a public program entitled “Many Faces to the Bible” held at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, November 1-3, 1996.

“Text in Context: Exegesis and Cultural Diversity.” An invited paper delivered in absentia by a colleague at the Annual Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Strasbourg, France, August, 1996.

Panelist: Dissemination of Archaeological Information Consultation. Annual Meeting, The American Schools of Oriental Research, Philadelphia, November, 1995.

Response Paper to Professor Adrian M. Leske's "The Influence of Isaiah 40-66 on Christology in Matthew and Luke:  A Comparison."  Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, November, 1994

Panelist:  Dissemination of Archaeological Information Consultation.  Annual Meeting, The American Schools of Oriental Research, Chicago, November, 1994

Response Paper to Professor Niel Elliott's "The Silence of the Messiah: The Function of 'Messianic Secret' Motifs across the Synoptics."  Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, Washington, D.C., November, 1993

"CAD and GIS Technologies:  Their Potential for  Archaeological Recording and Analysis."  Annual Meeting, The American Schools of Oriental Research, Washington, D. C. November, 1993.

Program Chairperson presiding over the "ASOR Special Consultation: Computer Applications in Archaeology. " Annual Meeting, American Schools of Oriental Research, Anaheim, California, November, 1989.

"Archaeology and the New Testament:  The Argument from Silence. " Invited paper for the Archaeology of the New Testament World Consultation. Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, Illinois, November, 1988.

Program Chairperson presiding over the "ASOR Special Consultation:  Computer Applications in Archaeology. "Annual Meeting, American Schools of Oriental Research, Chicago, Illinois, November, 1988.

"Evidence for Pagan Cult at Sepphoris. " ASOR Symposium IV. Annual Meeting, American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston, Massachusetts, November, 1987.

Program Chairperson presiding over the "ASOR Photogrammetry Workshop. " Annual Meeting, American Schools of Oriental Research, Anaheim, California, November, 1985.

"New Approaches to Biblical Scholarship:  On Making the Methods Our Own. " An invited paper for presentation at The New England Regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, Newton Centre, MA, March, 1985.

"Report on the Excavations at Sepphoris, Israel: 1982-1984." Annual Meeting, American Schools of Oriental Research, Chicago, Illinois, December, 1984.

"Microcomputers in the Field:  Experiments in Galilee 1978-1983," An invited paper for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Dallas, Texas, December, 1983.

"Logic and Life," A response to R. F. Tredwell's "A Tale of Four Bills. " Maine Philosophical Institute, 1983.

"Microcomputers:  A New Tool for the Field Archae­ologist." A paper given at a conference on The Bible and the Computer, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February, 1980.

"Crisis and Christology:  The Theology of the Gospel of Mark." A lecture given at Pembroke College, Cambridge University in August 1979 during the Cambridge Conference on the Synoptic Problem.

"The Women at the Tomb:  Matthew 28-1 Re-examined." New England Regional Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, Catholic Biblical Association, and American Schools of Oriental Research, April, 1979.

"A Response to Roland Frye's Contribution to Our Understanding of Conflation in Gospel Compo­sition," Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, 1978.

"Empty Tomb and Absent Lord:  Mark's Interpretation of Tradition," Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, 1976.

"A Response to Yeager Hudson on Dewey's Criteria of the Worth of Any Form of Social Life," Maine Philosophical Institute, 1976.

"What are the Criteria by Which Proposed Solutions to the Synoptic Problem May Be Evaluated?" Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, 1975.

"The Ordination of Women:  A Biblical Perspective," New England Region, American Academy of Religion, 1975.

"A Response to Reginald H. Fuller on the Synoptic Problem," Southwestern Region, Society of Biblical Literature, 1973.

"The Minor Agreements: An Examination of the Basic Argument," New England Region, Society of Biblical Literature, 1972.

"New Perspectives on the Synoptic Problem," "Chesapeake Bay Region, Professional Society of Biblical Literature, 1967.

Associate Director, The University of South Florida’s Excavations at Sepphoris, Israel (1992- )

Invited lecture entitled "Sepphoris, The Forgotten City: Archaeological Perspectives on Christian Origins." A public lecture sponsored by the Department of Classics, Bates College, Lewiston, ME (May 26, 1999).

Invited speaker for the Greater Waterville Area Clergy Association luncheon. Topic: Archaeology and Traditions about the Life and Teaching of Jesus (October 22, 1998).

"The Archaeologist as Scientist." A public lecture sponsored by the Anthropology Department and Anthropology Club at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois (October 14, 1997).

"The Prodigal Party." A sermon given at the University Chapel Hour, an all-campus event sponsored by the University Chaplain's Office. Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois (October 15, 1997).

Invited participant and session presider, Conference on Anti-Judaism in the Gospels, The University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, October 17-20, 1996.

Invited lecture entitled "Looking at the World of the Past Through the Window of the Future."  An examination of the potential of hypermedia for archaeological and academic publishing.  Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IN March 16, 1994.

Staff Archaeologist, The Excavations at Nitzana, Israel (1992 - 1993).  In association with the David ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheva, Israel.

Participant in a conference on Strategies for Non-Violent Social Change at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Atlanta, Georgia, April 4-7, 1993

Co-coordinator of the Sloan Science, Technology, and Society, Colby College, 1985-1987.

Participant in a Conference on Computer for the Liberal Arts, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, November, 1985.

Board of Advisors, Office of Jewish-Christian Dialogue of the United Church of Christ, 1984-1986.

Invited to participate in a conference on "Order in The Synoptic Gospels: Patterns of Agreement Within Pericopes" at the Center for the Study of Religion in the Graeco-Roman World. Southern Methodist University, November, 1984.

Lecturer and Guide for a two week archaeological tour of Israel sponsored by the Alumni office, Colby College, September, 1984.

Participant in Workshop on Computer Photogrammetrics, Del Foster Associates, San Antonio,  Texas, April, 1984.

Representative of Colby College at the Conference of Sloan Foundation Grant Recipients, New York City, October,1983.

Participant in the Annual Meetings of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Canterbury, England, August, 1983.

Colby Representative in the MIT/Sloan Program on Technology and the New Liberal Arts, spring, 1983.

Director, Mayflower Hill Excavation Project, Colby College, 1982.

Participant in the Sloan Conference on Technology and the Liberal Arts, The University of Maryland, June 1982.

Selection Committee, Zion Research Foundation grant program administered by the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1982.

Area Supervisor and Computer Specialist with the Meiron Excavation project at the excavation of the ancient synagogue and town, En Nabratein, Israel, summers 1980 and 1981.

One of thirty invited participants in the Cambridge Conference on the Synoptic Problem, held at Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1979.

Participant in the Sixth International Congress on Biblical Studies, Oxford, England, summer, 1978.

Area Supervisor with the Meiron Excavation Project at the excavation of the ancient synagogue in Gush Halav, Israel, summer, 1977.

One of thirty-five invited participants in the Griesbach Bicentennial Colloquium, Munster, Germany, 1976.

Priest in the Episcopal Church in Waterville.  Active in the Diocese of Maine
     (Episcopal) as lecturer in programs for Lay Readers and continuing education
     for clergy.  Invited to present five Codman lectures in 1979 and 1980.  Tutor for
     men in preparation for Holy Orders.  Frequent speaker for civic and church
     groups.
Board of Directors, Waterville Opera House Improvement Association
      (1983-1987), President (1986-1987).
Board of Directors, Kennebec County Children and Family Resources Council,
      (1987-1989).
Board of Trustees, Bangor Theological Seminary, (1988-1999).
     Chair, Educational Policy Committee of the Board (1992-1995)
     Chair, Presidential Search Committee (1994-1995)
     Chair of the Board (1995-1999).
      Co-Chair [with Elizabeth Warren] of the Capital Campaign Committe
             of Bangor Theological Seminary.
Chaplain, Waterville City Fire Department (1991-1993).
Actor, appearing in numerous productions of amateur theater companies in Waterville.

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