Ben Witherington

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Ben Witherington III (born December 30, 1951 in High Point , North Carolina , USA ) is professor of New Testament Biblical Exegesis at the Methodist Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore , Kentucky , author and lecturer.

Life

Ben Witherington majored in English, philosophy and religion from 1970 and graduated from the University of North Carolina with a Master of Arts in 1974 . He received his Master of Divinity in 1977 with summa cum laude from Gordon-Conwell Seminary in South Hamilton north of Boston , Massachusetts . He received his PhD from the University of Durham in 1981 on Women in the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles (English: Women and Their Roles in the Gospels and Acts ).

He is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church and served as a pastor in a Methodist church from 1980 to 1984. In 1982 he was elected to the board of directors of the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church . From 1984 to 1995 he taught the New Testament at the Mennonite Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio. Since 1995 he has held the Jean R. Amos Professorship at the Methodist Asbury Theology Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. His focus is on women in the New Testament and in the ministry, the historical Jesus and Jesus seminars , Christology of the New Testament and exegesis and theology of Paul and John .

Ben Witherington gives numerous lectures and has appeared on television programs such as the History Channel, Discovery Channel and CNN Special.

Honors

  • 2001 editor of the New Cambridge Bible Commentary
  • 1998 Christianity Today Award for The Paul Quest for Best Biblical Study Book of the Year
  • 1996 Christianity Today Awarded The Jesus Quest for Best Biblical Study Book of the Year
  • 1992 elected Fellow of Robinson College , Cambridge University
  • 1989 election to the Study Society for the New Testament (SNTS)
  • Elected John Wesley Fellow in 1977, which included scholarships for three years of doctoral studies
  • 1976 Elected Fellow in the New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
  • 1973 elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society

Private

Ben Witherington is married to Ann and they have two grown children.

Works (selection)

Ben Witherington has authored over forty books on the New Testament and Christology :

  • A Week in the Life of Corinth , 2012
  • Work - A Kingdom Perspective on Labor , 2011, ISBN 978-0-80286-541-0
  • The Problem with Evangelical Theology. Testing the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism and Wesleyanism , Baylor University Press, 2005 ISBN 1-932792-42-2
  • The Gospel Code, Intervarsity Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8308-3267-X
  • History Literature, and Society in The Book Of Acts , Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-49520-2
  • The Gospel of Mark - A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary , 2001, ISBN 978-0-80284-503-0
  • The Jesus Quest - The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth , Intervarsity Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-83081-861-7
  • The Christology of Jesus , Augsburg Fortress Press, 1990
  • Women in the Earliest Churches , Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, Cambridge University Press, 1988, Reprint 2003, ISBN 0-521-40789-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dr. Ben Witherington III, Jean R. Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary
  2. Curriculum vitae on Ben Witherington website