Senior Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology
email: akostenberger@sebts.edu
Program: Graduate Discipline: New Testament Area: Biblical Studies
Teaching Since: 1996
Personal Website: www.biblicalfoundations.org
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M. Div. (Cross-Cultural/New Testament/Counseling), Columbia Biblical Seminary, 1985–88.
Ph. D. (New Testament/Biblical Studies), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1990–93
Mag. et Dr. rer. soc. oec. (Masters and Doctorate in Social and Economic Sciences), Vienna University of Economics, 1976–82.
Dr. Andreas Köstenberger (Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Dr. rer. soc. oec., Vienna University of Economics) is Senior Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology and Director of Ph.D. Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the Founder and President of Biblical Foundations™ (www.biblicalfoundations.org),an organization devoted to encouraging a return to the biblical foundations in the home, the church, and society. Dr. Köstenberger also serves as editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. He has authored, edited, or translated over twenty books, including God, Marriage, and Family, Women in the Church, Encountering John, Salvation to the Ends of the Earth (with Peter O’Brien), and John in the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series. Dr. Köstenberger is also the series editor of the Biblical Theology of the New Testament series, to which he contributed the inaugural volume, A Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters, and the author of a major New Testament introduction, The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown (with Scott Kellum and Charles Quarles). Other important contributions include essays in the Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament and the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary (which won the Gold Medallion Award). Dr. Köstenberger has been a guest lecturer at several major universities and seminaries. He has been featured on numerous radio interviews and has had numerous speaking engagements, including marriage conferences. In 2007, he was elected by the Governing Body to a 5-year term as Visiting Fellow at St. Edmund’s College in Cambridge, England. His BECNT commentary on John was one of five finalists for the Gold Medallion Award. Dr. Köstenberger and his wife Dr. Margaret Köstenberger (author of Jesus and the Feminists and Adjunct Professor of Women’s Studies at SEBTS) have four children and reside in Wake Forest, NC.
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Co-editor with Thomas R. Schreiner and H. Scott Baldwin, Women in the Church: A Fresh Analysis of 1 Timothy 2:11–15 (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995).
Translator of Adolf Schlatter, The History of the Christ (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997).
The Missions of Jesus and the Disciples in the Fourth Gospel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998).
Translator of Adolf Schlatter, The Theology of the Apostles (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999).
Translator of Women in the Church (Giessen: Brunnen, 1999).
Encountering the Gospel of John, Encountering Biblical Studies (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999). This book has been translated into Korean. It is currently being translated into Chinese.
Co-author with Peter T. O’Brien, Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission, New Studies in Biblical Theology (Leicester, U.K./Grand Rapids: Inter-Varsity, 2001).
Studies in John and Gender: A Decade of Scholarship, Studies in Biblical Literature 38 (New York: Peter Lang, 2001).
John, Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary, Vol. 2 (ed. Clinton E. Arnold; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 1–216. Released as separate volume in paperback as John (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007).
Co-author with Raymond Bouchoc, The Book Study Concordance (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2003).
John, Baker Exegetical Commentary of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004).
With David W. Jones, God, Marriage, and Family: Restoring the Biblical Foundation (Wheaton: Crossway, 2004). This book has been translated into Dutch and Russian. It is currently being translated into Italian.
Co-editor with Thomas R. Schreiner, Women in the Church: A Fresh Analysis of 1 Timothy 2:11–15, 2d ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005).
Co-translator with Robert W. Yarbrough, Adolf Schlatter, Do We Know Jesus? (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2005).
General editor and contributor, Whatever Happened to Truth? (Wheaton: Crossway, 2005).
Pastoral Epistles, Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Vol. 12 (rev. ed.; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006), 488–625.
Co-author with D. I. Block, Matrimonio e famiglia nell’ Antico e nel Nuovo Testamento, Studi di teologia biblica 01, Rome: Edizioni GBU, 2007. (Italian translation of “Marriage and Family in the New Testament.”)
General editor, Quo Vadis, Evangelicalism? Perspectives from the Past, Direction for the Future: Select Presidential Addresses from the First Fifty Years of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Wheaton: Crossway, 2007).
“John,” in Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (ed. G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007), 415–512.
Co-author with Scott Swain, Father, Son, and Spirit: The Trinity and John’s Gospel, New Studies in Biblical Theology (Leicester, U.K./Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2008).
Co-author with L. Scott Kellum and Charles L. Quarles, The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament (Nashville: B&H, 2009).
The Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters: The Word, the Christ, the Son of God, Biblical Theology of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009).
Series editor, Biblical Theology of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 8 vols.; in progress).
With David W. Jones, God, Marriage, and Family (2d edition; Wheaton: Crossway, 2010).
Co-author with Michael Kruger, The Heresy of Orthodoxy (Wheaton: Crossway, 2010).
Co-editor with Terry Wilder, Entrusted with the Gospel: Paul’s Theology in the Pastoral Epistles (NAC Monograph Series; Nashville: B&H, 2010).
Co-author with Richard D. Patterson, Invitation to Biblical Interpretation, Invitation to Theological Studies (Grand Rapids: Kregel, forthcoming July 2011).
Excellence (Wheaton: Crossway, forthcoming October 2011).
Gospel of John
Biblical Theology
Hermeneutics
Evangelical Theological Society
Institute of Biblical Research
Society of Biblical Literature
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