Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold, was published by Oxford University Press, Oxford on 23 February 2017. Esler has written articles related to this book for OUP and for Bible and Interpretation. The book has been reviewed. It has also attracted attention in the Jewish and regional press. In June 2017 The Blessing of Enoch: 1 Enoch and Contemporary Theology, which Esler edited, was published by Cascade Books in Eugene, Oregon. This book inaugurates a new area of theological research. In July 2017 Routledge published Esler’s second, enlarged edition of The Early Christian World. He edited the first edition in 2000. Esler's monograph, God's Court and Courtiers in the Book of the Watchers: Re-interpreting Heaven in 1 Enoch 1-36, was published in November 2017, with endorsements by John Collins and Loren Stuckenbruck. In mid-2019 Esler published Ethiopian Christianity: History, Theology, Practice with Baylor University Press. Since 2015 Esler and his colleague Angus Pryor, practising artist and head of the School of Arts at the University of Gloucestershire, have been engaged in a research collaboration on the ancient Jewish text 1 Enoch (that survived from antiquity only in Ethiopia). This collaboration led to Pryor creating twelve 2m x 2m paintings on 1 Enoch and a large-scale, illuminated model of an Ethiopian church. These works have been exhibited online, with supporting iconographic documentation co-authored by Esler and Pryor, under the title Enoch: Heaven’s Messenger, since July 2020. Esler’s latest monograph, 2 Corinthians: A Social Identity Commentary (420 pages), was published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark in September 2021. Works Books as Editor Chapters and Articles References External links AHRC website Professor Esler's academic webpage at University of Gloucestershire Academics of the University of St Andrews Australian biblical scholars Australian chief executives Living people Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh University of Sydney alumni Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford 1952 births People associated with St Mary's University, Twickenham New Testament scholars Academics of the University of Gloucestershire