Miryam Clough et al., ‘Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence, and Judeophobia in Text and Church’ in Barbara Thiede (ed), Rape Culture and the Bible: Scholars Reflect (London: Routledge, 2026), pp. 85-116. Open access.

Emily Colgan and David Tombs, ‘Christianity: Accompanying Survivors of Sexual Harm: Responses, Activism, and Resistance to Sexual Harm within Christian Contexts’ in Johanna Stiebert (ed), Abuse in World Religions: Volume 2 Towards Solutions (London: Routledge, 2026), 25-32. Open access.

David Tombs, ‘The Joyful and Troubling Laudato si’ (August 2025), p. 4. Otago archive.

David Tombs, Sithembiso Zwane and Charlene van der Walt, ‘Male Violence Against Men: A Contextual Bible Study on the Crucifixion of Jesus’, in Jione Havea (ed) Haunting Questions of Liberation Theology (2025), pp. 161-176. Otago archive.

Emily Colgan and David Tombs, ‘Christianity: Accompanying Survivors of Sexual Harm: Responses, Activism, and Resistance to Sexual Harm within Christian Contexts’ in Johanna Stiebert (ed), Abuse in World Religions: Volume 2 Towards Solutions (London: Routledge, 2026), pp. 25-32. Open access.

Anglican Journal of Theology in Aotearoa and Oceania (2025) special issue on ‘Trauma, Abuse, and Healing’ Otago archive.

Rocío Figueroa and David Tombs, ‘Vendo Sua Inocência, Eu Vejo Minha Inocência’, Estudos Teológicos (2024). Open access (Brazilian Portuguese); Open access (English).

David Tombs, ‘Things Too Indecent to be Recorded: The Soldiers Mocking the Death of Herod Agrippa’, in Juliana Claassens. Rhiannon Graybill and Christl Maier (eds), Narrating Rape: Shifting Perspectives in Biblical Literature and Popular Culture (2024). Otago archive.

Rocío Figueroa and David Tombs, '¿Obedecer el plan de Dios? El abuso espiritual de las religiosas’, (2024). Open access.

David Tombs, 'Art depicts Jesus in a loincloth on the cross – the brutal truth is he would have been naked’, The Conversation (28 March 2024). Open access.

David Tombs, 'Redress', (2024). Otago archive.

Rebecca Chopp, Ethna Regan and David Tombs, ‘Latin American Liberation Theology’ (Wiley 2024). More info.

Rocío Figueroa, Aton Hungyo, and David Tombs, ‘Discipline, Obedience and Abuse in the Sodalitium', (2023). Otago archive.

David Tombs, ‘Alone and Naked: Reading the Torture of Jesus alongside the Torture of Miriam Leitão’, International Journal of Public Theology (2023). Open access.

Rocío Figueroa and David Tombs, ‘Discipline, Obedience and Abuse in the Sodalitium', (2023). Otago archive.

David Tombs, ‘Jon Sobrino and “The Crucified People’, Religions (2023). Open access.

Rocío Figueroa and David Tombs, ‘Obeying God’s Plan? The Spiritual Abuse of Nuns’, (2023). Open access.

David Tombs, 'Stripped of Dignity', (2023). Otago archive.

David Tombs, The Crucifixion of Jesus: Torture, Sexual Abuse, and the Scandal of the Cross (Routledge, 2023). Open access.

David Tombs, 'The Pink Crosses of Ciudad Juárez' in n Rebekah Pryor and Stephen Bevans (eds) Feminist Theologies: Interstices and Fractures (2023). Otago archive.

Rocío Figueroa y David Tombs, “El abuso espiritual de religiosas. Caso de estudio: Siervas del Plan de Dios”, Teología y vida (2022). Open access.

Rocío Figueroa and David Tombs, ‘Living in Obedience and Suffering in Silence: The Shattered Faith of Nuns Abused by Priests’, (2022). Otago archive.

David Tombs, 'Asking the Right Questions' in Jione Havea, Emily Colgan and Nasili Vaka’uta (eds) Theology as Threshold: Invitations from Aotearoa New Zealand (2022). Otago archive.

Lynne Taylor and David Tombs, ‘Gender-based Violence and Mental Health’, in Mwai Makoka and Gerald West (eds) Health-Promoting Churches: Vol. 3. Contextual Bible Studies on Health and Healing (2022). WCC resources.

David Tombs, ‘The Ten Concubines in 2 Samuel 15-20 and Secondary Victimisation’ in Emily Colgan and Caroline Blyth (eds), Accompanying Survivors of Sexual Harm: A Toolkit for the Churches (2022), pp. 41-45. Open access.

David Tombs, ‘The Stripping of Jesus (Matthew 27:26-31)’ in Emily Colgan and Caroline Blyth (eds), Accompanying Survivors of Sexual Harm: A Toolkit for the Churches (2022), pp. 46-51. Open access.

David Tombs, ‘Reading Crucifixion Narratives as Texts of Terror’ in Monica Melanchthon and Robyn Whitaker (eds.) Terror in the Bible: Rhetoric, Gender, and Violence (SBL 2021), Open access.

Jayme Reaves, David Tombs and Rocío Figueroa (eds), When Did We See You Naked?’: Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse (SCM 2021). Open access.

Rocío Figueroa and David Tombs, ‘Seeing His Innocence, I See My Innocence’, (2021). Open access.

Rocío Figueroa and David Tombs, ‘Viendo su Inocencia veo mi Inocencia’, (2021). Otago archive.

David Tombs, ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: Seeing the Stripping of Jesus as Sexual Violence’, Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (2020). Open access.

Rocío Figueroa and David Tombs, ‘Recognising Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse. Responses from Sodalicio Survivors in Peru’, (2020). Open access.

Jayme Reaves and David Tombs, '#Me Too: Naming Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse', Review and Expositor (2020). Open access.

David Tombs, ‘Unspeakable Things: Drawing upon the Nanjing Massacre to Read Crucifixion as an Assault on Human Dignity’ in Zhibin Xie et al. (2020). More info.

Jayme R. Reaves and David Tombs, ‘#MeToo Jesus: Naming Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse’, International Journal of Public Theology (2019). Open access.

David Tombs, ‘Confronting the Stigma of Naming Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Violence’ in Clive Pearson (ed), Enacting a Public Theology. Publisher.

Ah Siu-Maliko et al. Church Responses to Gender-Based Violence Against Women in Samoa 2019). Otago archive.

David Tombs, 'Crucificação e abuso sexual' (2019). Open access (Brazilian Portuguese).

David Tombs, Crucifixion and Sexual Abuse (2019). Otago archive English, Spanish, French, German.

David Tombs, 'Siphiwo Mthimkhulu, Daniel Grootboom and the Art of Forgiveness' (Fortress Academic 2018). Otago archive.

David Tombs, Crucifixion, State Terror and Sexual Abuse: Text and Context (2018). Otago archive.

David Tombs, Crucifixión, terrorismo de Estado y abuso sexual: texto y contexto (2018). Otago archive.

Boodoosingh et al., ‘Research briefing: Violence against women in Samoa’ Women’s Studies Journal (2018). Open access.

Edwards and Tombs, ‘#HimToo – why Jesus should be recognised as a victim of sexual violence’, The Conversation (2018). Open access.

David Tombs, ‘Public Theology and Reconciliation’ (Brill 2017). Open access.

David Tombs, ‘Under the Surface: Archibald Baxter’s Religious Faith’ (2017). Otago archive.

Rocío Figueroa and David Tombs, 'Listening to Male Survivors of Clergy Sexual Abuse', The Canonist (2017). Otago archive.

David Tombs, ‘Abandonment, Rape, And Second Abandonment: Hannah Baker In 13 Reasons Why and King David’s Concubines In 2 Samuel 15–20’, Shiloh Project Blog (2017). Open access.

Rocío Figueroa and David Tombs, Listening to Male survivors of Church Sexual Abuse: Voices of Sodalicio Survivors in Peru (2016). Otago archive.

Rocío Figueroa and David Tombs, Escuchando a sobrevivientes masculinos de abuso sexual en la Iglesia: Voces de sobrevivientes de abusos del Sodalicio en el Perú (2016). Otago archive.

David Tombs, 'Towards a Public Theology of Reconciliation in Northern Ireland' (EOS 2015). Otago archive.

David Tombs, ‘Silent No More: Sexual Violence in Conflict as a Challenge to the Worldwide Church’, Acta Theologica (2014). Open access.

David Tombs, The Meaning of Reconciliation (2013). Personal copy.

David Tombs, 'Archbishop Romero and Reconciliation in El Salvador’ (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012). More info.

David Tombs, ‘The Meaning of Reconciliation’ (Corrymeela 2012). Corrymeela site.

David Tombs, 'Unspeakable Abuse and Forgiveness', in Doctrine and Life (2011). Personal copy.

David Tombs, ‘Prisoner Abuse: From Abu Ghraib to The Passion of The Christ’ (2009). Otago archive.

David Tombs, 'Latin American Liberation Theology' (2009). Otago archive.

David Tombs, 'Unspeakable Violence: The UN Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Guatemala' (Ashgate 2006). Open access.

David Tombs and Joseph Liechty, Explorations in Reconciliation: New Directions in Theology (Ashgate 2006). Open access.

David Tombs, David Tombs, ‘The Theology of Reconciliation and the “Recovery of Memory Project” in Guatemala’ (Ashgate 2006). Open access.

David Tombs, Latin American Liberation Theology (Brill 2002). Open access.

David Tombs, ‘“He is not here”: Disappearance, Death and Denial’ in Michael A. Hayes and David Tombs (eds), Truth and Memory: The Church and Human Rights in El Salvador and Guatemala (Gracing, 2001). Click here.

Michael A. Hayes and David Tombs (eds), Truth and Memory: The Church and Human Rights in El Salvador and Guatemala (Gracing, 2001). More info.

David Tombs, ‘Latin American Liberation Theology Faces the Future’ (2001). Otago archive.

Nothing currently available.

David Tombs, ‘Crucifixion, State Terror, and Sexual Abuse’, (Union Seminary Quarterly Review (1999). Open access. 

David Tombs, ‘Oscar Romero and Resurrection Hope’ (1999). Otago archive.

David Tombs, ‘Machismo and Marianismo: Sexuality and Liberation Theology’ (1998). Otago archive.

David Tombs, ‘Liberating Christology: Images of Christ in the Work of Aloysius Pieris’ (1997). Otago archive.

Nothing currently available.

David Tombs, 'The Hermeneutics of Liberation' (1995). Otago archive.