| Whoever hears you hears me: Prophets, performance, and tradition in Q RA Horsley, JA Draper A&C Black, 1999 | 167 | 1999 |
| Performing the Gospel: Orality, memory, and mark RA Horsley, JA Draper, JM Foley, WH Kelber Fortress Press, 2011 | 127 | 2011 |
| The Didache in Modern Research: 1996 JA Draper Brill, 1996 | 114 | 1996 |
| The heavenly feast of tabernacles: Revelation 7.1-17 JA Draper Journal for the Study of the New Testament 6 (19), 133-147, 1983 | 78 | 1983 |
| Women hold up half the sky: Women in the church in Southern Africa DM Ackermann Cluster Publ., 1991 | 77 | 1991 |
| The Jesus tradition in the Didache JA Draper, D Wenham Gospel perspectives; 5: The Jesus tradition outside the Gospels, 269-287, 1985 | 66 | 1985 |
| Orality, literacy, and colonialism in antiquity JA Draper Society of Biblical Lit, 2004 | 60 | 2004 |
| Ritual Process and Ritual Symbol in" Didache" 7-10 JA Draper Vigiliae christianae, 121-158, 2000 | 56 | 2000 |
| Torah and troublesome apostles in the Didache community JA Draper Novum Testamentum 33 (Fasc. 4), 347-372, 1991 | 54* | 1991 |
| Reading the Bible as conversation: A theory and methodology for contextual interpretation of the Bible in Africa JA Draper Grace and Truth 19 (2), 12-24, 2002 | 51 | 2002 |
| Old scores and new notes: Where and what is contextual exegesis in the new South Africa? JA Draper Towards an agenda for contextual theology: Essays in honour of Albert Nolan …, 2001 | 50 | 2001 |
| The eye of the storm JA Draper The Eye of the Storm, 1-408, 2003 | 49 | 2003 |
| Temple, tabernacle and mystical experience in John JA Draper Neotestamentica 31 (2), 263-288, 1997 | 48 | 1997 |
| Weber, Theissen and" Wandering Charismatics" In The Didache JA Draper Journal of Early Christian Studies 6 (4), 541-576, 1998 | 47 | 1998 |
| The Apostolic Fathers: The Didache JA Draper The Expository Times 117 (5), 177-181, 2006 | 46 | 2006 |
| Confessional Western text-centered biblical interpretation and an oral or residual-oral context JA Draper Scholars Press, 1996 | 40 | 1996 |
| Social ambiguity and the production of text: Prophets, teachers, bishops, and deacons and the development of the Jesus tradition in the community of the Didache JA Draper The Didache in Context, 284-312, 1994 | 40 | 1994 |
| Orality, literacy, and colonialism in Southern Africa JA Draper Society of Biblical Lit, 2003 | 39 | 2003 |
| ‘For the Kingdom is inside of you and it is outside of you’: Contextual Exegesis in South Africa JA Draper Text and Interpretation, 235-257, 1991 | 37 | 1991 |
| African contextual hermeneutics: Readers, reading communities, and their options between text and context JA Draper Religion and Theology 22 (1-2), 3-22, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
