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1. Modern Fiction and the Rebirth of Theology (Saratoga: S.U.N.Y. Press, 1973) 2. The Early English Lyric and Franciscan Spirituality (Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska University Press, 1975). 3. Editor and Co author, By Things Seen: Reference and Recognition in Medieval Thought (University of Ottawa Press, 1979). 4. Editor and Co author, Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (University of Ottawa Press, 1984). 5. Toward a Perfect Love: The Spiritual Counsel of Walter Hilton (Portland, Oregon: Multnomah Press, 1986; new edition, Vancouver, Regent Press, 2002). (translation, with introduction and notes). 6. The Fiction of Jack Hodgins (Toronto: ECW Press, 1989). 7. English Spirituality in the Age of Wesley (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987). (edition of texts, critical study, introductions, notes). Second edition 1994; Third edition Vancouver: Regent Press, 2001; 2006. Available as A Burning and Shining Light through Logos Bible Software (2016--) 8. English Spirituality in the Age of Wyclif (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988). (translation of texts, critical study, introductions, notes) Second edition Vancouver: Regent Press, 2001; 2006. 9. Editor, with Brian J. Levy, The Anglo Norman Lyric (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1990; revised second edition by DLJ in 2006). (edition, translation, critical study). 10. General Editor and Co-Author, A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992). 11. People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture (Cambridge and Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996). Chinese translation (2005), by Yi Li, Renmin University Press, Beijing (2004). 12. Editor and co-author, with Dominic Manganiello, Re-Thinking the Future of the University (University of Ottawa Press, 1998). 13. Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2003). 14. William Cowper: Selected Poetry and Prose, ed. David Lyle Jeffrey (Vancouver: Regent Press, 2006). 15. Editor, with C. Stephen Evans, co-author, The Bible and the University (Milton Keynes and Grand Rapids: Paternoster [UK] and Zondervan [US], 2007). 16. co-author ( 6 of 9 chs), with Gregory Maillet, Christianity and Literature: a Philosophical Perspective (Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 2010; 2017). 17. Editor, co-author, The King James Bible and the World it Made (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011). 18. Luke: a Theological Commentary (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2012). 19. A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, translated by Liu Guangyao et al. (Shanghai: Sanlian Academic Press, 2013). Revisions and corrections, plus a new introduction for the Chinese context. 3 vols. 20. In the Beauty of Holiness: Art and the Bible in Western Culture (Grand Rapids and Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2017). 21. Scripture and the English Poetic Imagination (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019). 22. Translations (San Jose: Resource Publications, 2021). 23. We Were a Peculiar People Once: Confessions of an Old-Time Baptist (Waco: 1845 Books, 2023). 24. A Testament of Witnesses and Other Poems (San Jose: Resource Publications, 2023). 25. Tales from Limerick Forest (Waco: 1845 Books, 2024). ==Bio-bibliographical==