ACADEMIC DEGREES
June, 1961 - A.B. Quincy College
June, 1965 - S.T.B. Pontificium Atenaeum Antonianum
June, 1966 - S.T.L. Catholic University of America
June, 1971 - Th.D. Harvard University
Oct., 1990 - Honorary Doctorate from Quincy College/University
MEMBERSHIP IN LEARNED SOCIETIES
Catholic Biblical Association of America (President, 1993)
Society of Biblical Literature
Societas Novi Testamenti Studiorum
SELECT SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS
"Rom 14:1-15:13 and the Occasion of Romans," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 35 (1973) 155-178 (Reprinted twice in The Romans Debate).
"The Background and Significance of the Polemic of the Pastoral Epistles," Journal of Biblical Literature 92 (1973) 549-564.
"Poor and Rich: The Lukan Sitz im Leben," in Perspectives on Luke-Acts. Ed. Charles H. Talbert; Perspectives in Religious Studies, Special Studies Series 5; Danville: Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, 1978, pp. 112-125.
Luke: Artist and Theologian. NY: Paulist, 1985.
"Women and Discipleship in Luke," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 56 (1994) 1-20 (Reprinted in A Feminist Companion to Luke).
The Admonitions of St. Francis. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 1999.
Prayer and the New Testament. NY: Crossroad, 2000.
St. Bonaventure's Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 1-8, 9-16, 17-24. With an Introduction, Translation and Notes by Robert J. Karris. Works of St. Bonaventure VIII/I-III; St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2001, 2003, 2004.
"A Comparison of the Glossa Ordinaria, Hugh of St. Cher, and St. Bonaventure on Luke 8:26-39," Franciscan Studies 58 (2000) 121-236.
"Bonaventure's Commentary on Luke: Four Case Studies of His Creative Borrowing form Hugh of St. Cher," Franciscan Studies 59 (2001) 133-236.
"St. Bonaventure as Biblical Interpreter: His Methods, Wit, and Wisdom," Franciscan Studies 60 (2002) 159-208.
"St. Bonaventure's use of Distinctiones: His Independence of and Dependence on Hugh of St. Cher," Franciscan Studies 60 (2002) 209-250.
"Diego de Estella on Luke 15:11-32," Franciscan Studies 61 (2003) 97-234.
