Dr. Irving Alan Sparks

Visiting Professor
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate
University

Contact information

Office: Maher 299
Phone: (619) 260-7845
Fax: (619) 260-2260
E-mail: isparks@sandiego.edu

Research specialties

Manuscript traditions of the New Testament

Teaching specialties

Comparative religions, Jewish and Christian Origins

Selected publications

Editor of Studies and Documents , the principal English language monograph series on NT manuscript traditions, 1971 – 1993

Exploring The World's Religions: A Reading and Writing Handbook. HarperCollins, 1992.

“Karl Lachmann,” Theologische Realenzyklopädie , hrsg. von Gerhard Müller. Band 20, Lieferung ¾. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1990, 368-370.

The Pastoral Epistles: Introduction and Commentary . Institute of Biblical Studies, 1985.

“A Fragment of Sapientia Salomonis from Oxyrhynchus,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 3 (1973) 149-52.

“ Buddha and Christ: A Functional Analysis,” Numen: International Review for the History of Religions 13 (1966) 190-204.