 He translated a number of theological works, including Martin Noth's "Exodus", Aloys Grillmeier's "Christ in Christian Tradition", Martin Hengel's "Judaism and Hellenism" (1975), and Henning Graf Reventlow's "The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World" (1985).Winner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize twice, for the Hengel and Graf Reventlow translations, in total Bowden translated more than 200 books and authored a number himself.Bowden died of prostate cancer on 6 December 2010 and was survived by his wife and their three children.