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InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce that The Cultivated Life by Susan Phillips was named a finalist in the book category for the Dallas Willard Center 2016 Book and Research Awards.
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InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce the appointments of David Fassett to art director and Jeff Gissing to academic marketing manager.
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Operation World (OW), the ministry behind the definitive global prayer handbook, is pleased to announce the worldwide release of a new, free mobile app.
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Want more context as you begin to study 1 Kings? This introduction will give you the background you need as you read the Daily Quiet Time Bible Study. We hope you continue to discover the riches of Scripture and draw closer to God as you join the millions who have used this free devotional resource. -
John Byron
John Byron (PhD, University of Durham) is professor of New Testament at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio. He previously served as a lecturer of New Testament and Greek at the University of Durham, as a teaching assistant at Jerusalem University College and as a youth pastor at Fountain of Life Christian Fellowship in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Desiring to serve both the church and the academy, he enjoys teaching at churches and seminars and frequently travels around the world to teach and research. He participates in Ashland Theological Seminary's Tel-Gezer project, which allows groups to tour Israel and excavate ancient sites. Byron's research and writing interests include New Testament and Christian origins, the Pauline epistles, history and literature of early Judaism, rewritten Bible, slavery in antiquity and archaeology and historical geography of Syro-Palestine.
His books include 1 and 2 Thessalonians (The Story of God Bible Commentary), Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition: Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the First Sibling Rivalry, Recent Research on Paul and Slavery and Slavery Metaphors in Early Judaism & Pauline Christianity. Byron's research has been recognized with several honors and widely published in academic journals. He has served the Eastern Great Lakes region of the Society of Biblical Literature in many roles, including vice president, president, executive secretary, and chair of the non-canonical Jewish and Christian writing section. He was also elected to membership in the Studorium Novi Testamenti Societas in 2012.
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InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce that the second edition of the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels was awarded book of the year in the category of Bible Reference for the 2014 ECPA Christian Book Awards. The announcement was made on the opening evening of the ECPA Leadership Summit on Monday, April 28, as a part of the ECPA Awards and Anniversary banquet.
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The death of Ralph P. Martin (1925-2013) marks the passing of a great evangelical New Testament scholar.
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Craig A. Evans
Craig A. Evans (PhD, Claremont) is an internationally known and respected New Testament scholar, apologist, and author who serves as the John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University. He has written extensively on the historical Jesus and the Jewish background of the New Testament era. A prolific writer, Evans has published more than seventy books and over 500 journal articles and reviews, and his books have been translated into several languages. His academic and popular books include Jesus and the Jihadis, Fabricating Jesus, From Jesus to the Church: The First Christian Generation, Jesus, The Final Days: What Really Happened (co-authored with N. T. Wright), Jesus and His Contemporaries, Matthew (in the Word Biblical Commentary), and Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies. His edited volumes include Studying the Historical Jesus, Dictionary of New Testament Background, and Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Evans has lectured at several prominent universities and seminaries around the world, including Cambridge, Durham and Oxford in the United Kingdom, Princeton and Yale in the United States, and Hebrew University and Ben Gurion University in Israel. Uniquely skilled to communicate biblical scholarship through the media, Dr. Evans has reaffirmed the uniqueness and supremacy of Jesus Christ to millions of people on television, by radio, and in print media including Dateline NBC, National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The BBC, New York Times, Global TV, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. In addition, he served as consultant for The Bible television miniseries, viewed by over 100 million Americans.
Download the Q&A with Craig about Fabricating Jesus.
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Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren released at the end of 2016 to high praise and bestselling sales numbers.Given the ongoing interest in the book, IVP is releasing a new hardcover edition of Warren's masterful work in December 2019 to commemorate the book and its accomplishments.
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Kenneth E. Bailey, respected author, lecturer, and one of our most gifted Middle Eastern New Testament studies scholars, passed away Monday evening, May 23, 2016, at the age of eighty-five.
