Perrin 1
Nicholas Perrin
803 E. Harrison St
Wheaton, IL60187
Phone (630) 752-5933
EDUCATION
Ph.D.Biblical Studies Marquette University August 2001
Specialization: New Testament
Dissertation Title: “Thomas and Tatian: The Relationship between
the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron”
directed by Dr. Julian V. Hills
M.Div.Master of DivinityCovenant Theological Seminary May 1994
Summa cum laude
Concentration: Church-planting
B.A.English LiteratureThe Johns Hopkins University May 1986 Honors
Major: English literature
GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS
Louisville General Grant ($34,125) for April, 2009
Project “Evangelism after the Canon”
Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry August – December, 2009
Resident Fellow
G. W. Aldeen Memorial Fund GrantWheaton College, January 2006
Mentor-Guided Scholarship Stipend Wheaton College, October 2005
Junior Faculty Development Grant Wheaton College, 2005-2007
Research Fellow London, 2000-2003
for the Canon Theologian of
the Westminster Abbey (N.T. Wright)
Tuition Scholarship Marquette University, 1997-2000
Teaching/Research Assistantship
Ordination to the Northern Illinois Presbytery (PCA) 1994
LANGUAGES
Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Coptic, Syriac, German, French, Italian, Anglo-Saxon
ADMINISTRATIVE, RESEARCH, TEACHING AND EXPERIENCE
Dean of the Wheaton Graduate School2012-present
Franklin S. Dyrness Professor of Biblical Studies 2009-present
Professor of New Testament
Acting Associate Dean, Department of Biblical and Theological Studies2012 (spring)
Associate Professor of New Testament – Wheaton College Graduate School2008-present
Assistant Professor of New Testament – Wheaton College Graduate School2005-08
Committee Work and Service
RESL2013 – present
Wheaton in the Holy Lands Committee2008 – present
MABE Steering Committee2007 – present
PhD Committee2007 – present
Chair of Faculty Personnel Committee2012 – 2013
Faculty Personnel Committee2010 – 2013
Director of Biblical Studies MA2006 – 2013
Hearing Panel for Student Conduct2007 –2009
CACE Steering Committee2007 –2008
Events Scheduling Committee2006 –2007
CACE Seminar ModeratorSpring 2007
Assistant Professor of New Testament – Biblical Theological Seminary 2003-2005
Theological Researcher to2000-2003
the Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey,
N. T. Wright
Teaching Assistant– MarquetteUniversity1997-2000
DISSERTATION READERSHIPS, EDITORSHIPS, AND EDITORIAL CONSULTATION
Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised
Nicholas Piotrowski, “Scripture and Community: The Social-Rhetorical Role of the Formula Quotations in Matthew’s Prologue,” (Ph.D. diss., Wheaton College Graduate School, 2013).
Ph.D. Dissertations - Second or External Readerships
Uche Anizor, “Kings and Priests: Scripture’s Theological Account of its Readers” (Ph.D. diss., Wheaton College Graduate School, 2011).
Mike Daling, “Idolatry and Reversal: Isaiah 6:9-10 and Matthew’s Use of an Isaianic Theme” (Ph.D. diss., Wheaton College Graduate School, 2012).
Clayton Coombs, “Not this Rather Than That: Eusebius’ Reception of Mark 16:9-20 in the Ad Marinum,” (Ph.D. diss., Wheaton College Graduate School, 2012).
Daniel Brendsel, “Isaiah Saw his Glory: The Use of Isaiah 52—53 in John 12,” (Ph.D. diss., Wheaton College Graduate School, 2013).
In progress:
Doctoral Mentor (Caleb Friedeman)2014 – present
Doctoral Mentor (Gregory Thellman)2007 – present
Doctoral Mentor (Susan Rieske)2011 – present
Doctoral Mentor (Jeremy Otten)2012 – present
External Reader (Brian Dennert)2012 – 13
M.A. Theses Supervised
Yonatan Binyam, “Christianity and Judaism in the Second Century: Didache, Epistle of Barnabas andthe Works of Justin Martyr,” (M.A. thesis; Wheaton College Graduate School, 2012).
Editorial Consultation
Consulting EditorDavid Jeremiah Study Bible 2012
Consulting EditorNKJV Family Bible 2006
RELATED PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE
Co-founder and ChairmanCovenant Classical School 2010 - 2012
of the Board
Preaching MinisterSt John’s UCC Gottesdienst2010 - Present
Chaplain (part-time)Dock Meadows 2003-2005
Assisted Living Community
Hatfield, Pennsylvania
Senior Pastor (part-time)International Presbyterian Church (IPC)2000-2003
London, England
Preaching Minister (part-time)First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)1998-2000
Cedar Grove, Wisconsin
Director of Adult EducationNaperville Presbyterian Church (PCA)1994-1997
Naperville, Illinois
Intervarsity ChristianSt LouisUniversity1991-1994
FellowshipSt Louis, Missouri
Campus Minister FrostburgStateUniversity1986-1991
Frostburg, Maryland
DirectorBaltimore Inner-City Project 1988-1991
Baltimore, Maryland
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Center of Theological Inquiry (Princeton)
Society of Biblical Literature
North American Patristic Society
Evangelical Theological Society
Institute for Biblical Research
Alcuin Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Finding Jesus in the Exodus: Christ in Israel’s Journey from Slavery to the Promised Land (New York: FaithWords; 2014).
Exodus Revealed: Israel’s Journey from Slavery to the Promised Land (New York: FaithWords; 2014).
Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (Joel Green, Nicholas Perrin and Jeannine Brown, eds.; Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2013).
Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N.T. Wright (Nicholas Perrin and Richard Hays, eds.; Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity; London: SPCK: 2011).
Jesus, Paul and the People of God[Korean trans.]
Jesus the Temple (London: SPCK; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010).
Lost in Transmission? What We Can Know about the Words of Jesus (Nashville: Thomas Nelson: 2007).
Thomas: The Other Gospel (London: SPCK; Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox: 2007).
Tommaso: L’altro vangelo [Italian trans.]
The Judas Gospel (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2006).
Injil Yudas: Menggugah atau Menggugat Iman? [Indonesian trans., 2006]
Questioning Q (Mark Goodacre and Nicholas Perrin, eds.; Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press; London: SPCK, 2004).
Thomas and Tatian: The Relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron
(Academia Biblica 5; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature; Leiden: Brill, 2002).
EBOOKS
The Gospel of Thomas, author of text for feature film (Das Abra, Director; London: Qmorphic, 2009).
PRINTED ARTICLES/ESSAYS
“A Response to Beverly Roberts Gaventa, ‘Which Humans? What Response? A Reflection on Pauline Theology’,”Ex Auditu(0000): 00-00.
“The Temple, a Davidic Messiah, and a Case of Mistaken Priestly Identity (Mark 2:26)” in Daniel M. Gurtner and Benjamin J. Gladd, ed., From Creation to New Creation: FS Greg Beale (Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson, 2013): 163-77.
“Recent Trends in Gospel of Thomas Research (1989–2011): Part II: Genre, Theology and Relationship to the Gospel of John,” in Currents in Biblical Research 11 (2012): 65-86.
“We Can’t Teach Bible and Theology Like We Used To,” in The Journal 4 (2011): 5-7.
“Paul in Valentinian Interpretation,” in Michael F. Bird and Preston M. Sprinkle, ed., Paul and the Second Century: The Legacy of Paul’s Life, Letters, and Teaching (LNTS 412; London: T. & T. Clark International, 2011): 126-39.
Foreword to Andrew Steinmann,From Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology (St. Louis: Concordia, 2011), ixx-xx.
Introduction to idem and Richard B. Hays, ed.,Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N.T. Wright (Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity; London: SPCK: 2011), 7-17.
“Jesus’ Eschatology and Kingdom Ethics: Ever the Twain Shall Meet,” in idem and Richard B. Hays, ed.,Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N.T. Wright (Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity; London: SPCK: 2011), 92-112.
“The Diatessaron and the Second-Century Reception of the Gospel of John,” in T. Rasimus ed., The Legacy of John: The Second Century Reception of the Fourth Gospel (Novum Testamentum Supplements 132; Leiden: Brill, 2009), 301-18.
“Where to Begin with the Gospel of Mark?” in Currents in Theology and Mission 35 (2008), 413-19.
“The Aramaic Origins of the Gospel of Thomas – Revisited,” in Das Thomasevangelium: Entstehung -- Rezeption -- Theologie (J. Frey, J. Schröter, E.E. Popkes ed.; Beihefte zur für Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 157; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), 50-59.
“Eschatological Aspects of the Sinai Experience in Patristic Interpretation,” in Israel in the Wilderness: Interpretations of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions (K. E. Pomykala, ed.;Themes in Biblical Narrative 10; Leiden: Brill, 2008),173-82.
“Irenaeus and Lyotard against Heresies, Ancient and Modern,” in Ancient Faith for the Church’s Future (J. Greenman and M. Husbands, ed.; Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 126-40.
“The (Surprisingly Messy) Process That Brought Us Our New Testament,”in Discipleship Journal163 (2008),46-53.
“No Other Gospel,” in Christian History and Biography 96 (2007), 27-30.
“On Raising Osiris in 1 Corinthians 15,”Tyndale Bulletin 58 (2007), 117-28.
“Recent Trends in Gospel of Thomas Research (1991–2006):Part 1, The Historical Jesus and the Synoptic Gospels,” in Currents in Biblical Research5 (2007), 183-206.
“Some Reflections on Hermeneutics and Method: A Reply to Guy Waters,” Westminster Theological Journal 68 (2006),139-46.
“Thomas: The Fifth Gospel?” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 49 (2006),67-80.
“A Reformed Perspective on the New Perspective,” Westminster Theological Journal 67 (2005), 381-89.
“Reasons for Questioning Q,” in Goodacre and Perrin, Questioning Q, 1-12.
“The Limits of a Reconstructed Q,” in Goodacre and Perrin, Questioning Q, 71-88.
“Some Implications of Dispensing with Q,” in Goodacre and Perrin, Questioning Q, 165-73.
“NHC II,2 and the Oxyrhynchus Fragments (P.Oxy 1, 654, 655): Overlooked Evidence for a Syriac Gospel of Thomas,” Vigiliae Christianae 58 (2004), 138-51.
“Hermeneutical Factors in the Harmonization of the Gospels and the
Question of Textual Authority” in The Biblical Canons (J.-M Auwers and H. J. de Jonge, eds.;
Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium163; Leuven: Peeters, 2003), 599-605.
“Dialogic Conceptions of Language and the Problem of Biblical Unity,” in Biblical Theology: Retrospect and Prospect (Scott Hafemann, ed.; Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2002), 212-24.
“Messianism in the Narrative Frame of Ecclesiastes?” Revue Biblique 108 (2001), 37-60.
“Was Calvin’s a ‘Testamentary’ Covenant?” in Presbyterion 25.1 (1999), 32-44.
ONLINE/DIGITAL ARTICLES
“John 16:4b-16: Walking Where Jesus Walked,” Christian Leadership Center Online, (accessed May 12, 2012)
“Mark 1:40-45: Redefining the Sacred,” Christian Leadership Center Online, (accessed February 15, 2012)
“Mark 1:29-39: A Faith of Rags,” Christian Leadership Center Online, February 6, 2012)
“Mark 1:21-28: A Crisis of Authority,” Christian Leadership Center Online, January 30, 2012)
“Mark 1:14-20: A Practical Repentance,” Christian Leadership Center Online, January 19, 2012)
“Mark 1:4-11: Where the Wild Things Grow,” Christian Leadership Center Online, (accessed November 29, 2011)
“Mark 1:1-8: Looking for a New Beginning,” Christian Leadership Center Online, (accessed October 24, 2011)
“Preaching Mark,” Christian Leadership Center Online, (accessed October 20, 2011)
“The Digitization of Sinaiticus and its Media Beepbop,”Reformation 21,Online, October 2008, (accessed October 31, 2008)
“The Modern American ‘Widow,’ the Church and the Formation of Public Policy,” Forum of Public Policy Online, Spring 2007, February 1, 2007).
REVIEWS
“Review of Mark Goodacre, Thomas and the Gospels,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 25 (2015): 131-32.
“Review of Simon Gathercole, The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas,” Journal of the Evangelical Theology Society 57 (2014): 207-10.
“Review of David Brakke, The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual and Diversity in Early Christianity,” Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 32 (2014), 115-16.
“Review of Kavin Rowe, Early Narrative Christology,” Scottish Journal of Theology 65 (2012), 489-91.
“Review of E. A. Popkes, Das Menschenbild des Thomasevangeliums,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly73 (2011), 627-28.
“Review of Gerald O’Collins and Michael Keenan Jones, Jesus Our Priest: A Christian Approach to the Priesthood of Christ,” Theology114 (2011), 44-45.
“Review of Jean-Marc Rosenstiehl and Michael Kaler,L’apocalypse de Paul (NH V,2),” Bulletin for Biblical Research20.4 (2010), 612-13.
“Review of Klyne R. Snodgrass, Stories with Intent,” Horizons in Biblical Theology32 (2010),123-27.
“Review of Loren T.Stuckenbruckand Wendy E. S. North, eds. Early Jewish and
Christian Monotheism,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 19.4 (2009), 622-23.
“Review of OutiLehtipuu, The Afterlife Imagery in Luke’s Story of the Rich Man
and Lazarus,”Bulletin for Biblical Research 19.4 (2009), 611-12.
“Review of April D. DeConick, The Original Gospel of Thomas,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 19.2 (2009), 307-08.
“Review of Birger A. Pearson, Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 51 (2009),178-79.
“Review of Amy-Jill Levine, Dale. C. Allison, Jr.; John Dominic Crossan (eds.), The Historical Jesus in Context,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 51 (2008), 136-37.
“Review of Jostein Ådna, The Formation of the Early Church,” Bulletin for Biblical Research18.1 (2008), 173-74.
“Review of April D. DeConick, Recovering the Original Gospel of Thomas,” Journal of Theological Studies 59 (2008), 310-12.
“Review of Eckard J. Schnabel, Early Christian Mission,” Pro Ecclesia 17 (2008), 131-32.
“Review of April D. DeConick, Recovering the Original Gospel of Thomas,” Bulletin of Biblical Research 17 (2007), 368-69.
“Review of Scot McKnight, Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, and Atonement Theory,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 69 (2007), 158-59.
DICTIONARY ARTICLES
“Sacraments and Sacramentality in the New Testament,” in Hans Boersma and Matthew Levering, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology (Oxford University Press, 2015), 52-67.
“Mark,” in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (Joel Green, Nicholas Perrin and Jeannine Brown, eds.; Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2013): 553-566.
“The Lord’s Supper,” in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (Joel Green, Nicholas Perrin and Jeannine Brown, eds.; Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2013): 492-501.
“Form Criticism,” in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (Joel Green, Nicholas Perrin and Jeannine Brown, eds.; Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2013): 288-294.
“Q,” with Graham Stanton†, in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (Joel Green, Nicholas Perrin and Jeannine Brown, eds.; Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2013): 711-718.
“Jubilee,” with Joel Green, in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (Joel Green, Nicholas Perrin and Jeannine Brown, eds.; Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2013): 450-452.
“Temple,” with Dan Gurtner, in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (Joel Green, Nicholas Perrin and Jeannine Brown, eds.; Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2013): 939-947.
“Early Noncanonical Christian Writings” in Joel B. Green and Lee Martin McDonald, ed. The World of the New Testament: An Examination of the Context of Early Christianity (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013): 424-435.
“The Imperial Cult” in Joel B. Green and Lee Martin McDonald, ed. The World of the New Testament: An Examination of the Context of Early Christianity (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013): 124-134.
“Exile” in Joel B. Green and Lee Martin McDonald, ed. The World of the New Testament: An Examination of the Context of Early Christianity (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013): 25-37.
“The Synoptic Gospels,” in John D. Barry, ed., Lexham Bible Dictionary (Bellingham, Wa.: Logos Research Systems) [online: 2012)
“Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus,” in Baker Illustrated Bible Handbook (D. Hays and J. S. Duvall ed., Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011): 670-71.
“Eternal Life,” in Baker Illustrated Bible Handbook (D. Hays and J. S. Duvall ed., Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011): 660.
“Gospels: Corpus,” in Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Kevin J. Vanhoozer, ed., et al.; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005).
“Gnosticism,” in Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Kevin J. Vanhoozer, ed., et al.; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005).
“Nag Hammadi,” in Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Kevin J. Vanhoozer, ed., et al.; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005).
“Chaos,” in The Dictionary of Biblical Images (D. Reid, ed.; Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1998).
“Curse,” in The Dictionary of Biblical Images (D. Reid, ed.; Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1998).
“Descent,” in The Dictionary of Biblical Images (D. Reid, ed.; Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1998).
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
“Response to Leroy Huizenga,” in First Things 218 (2011): 8-9.
BOOKS FORTHCOMING
Backstory: Who Wrote the New Testament and Why (Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 2014).
Jesus the Priest (London: SPCK; Peabody, Ma.: Hendrickson: 2014).
Irenaeus, Gnosticism and the Great Narrative Conflict (Waco, Tex: Baylor University Press: 2015).
John (Regular Fidei Commentary Series; Grand Rapids: Zondervan: 2014).
Jesus the Sacrifice (London: SPCK; Peabody, Ma.: Hendrickson: 2015).
Mark (Brill Exegetical Commentary Series; Leiden: Brill; forthcoming, 2016).
ARTICLES FORTHCOMING
“From One Stone to the Next: Messiahship and Temple in N. T. Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God,” in R. L Webb and M. A. Powell, eds., Jesus as Israel’s Messiah: Engaging the Work of N. T. Wright (Library of the Historical Jesus Studies; T. & T. Clark).
“‘A Man Who Told Me Everything I Have Ever Done!’ The Samaritan Woman and the Johannine Theology of Confession,” in Mark Ryan, ed., The Firstfruits of Creation: FS Jerram Barrs (Wheaton, Il.: Crossway, 2013).
Foreword to Tyran Laws and Raahsan Armand,The Round Table: Marginal Beliefs Affecting the Black Church (Wheaton, Il.: Crossway, 2015).
REVIEWS FORTHCOMING
“Review of Leroy Huizenga, The New Isaac: Tradition and Intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew,” Bulletin for Biblical Research
“Review of Chris Keith and Larry Hurtado, Jesus among Friends and Enemies,” Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology.
DICTIONARY ARTICLES FORTHCOMING
“N. T. Wright,” in New Dictionary of Theology (Inter-Varsity Press)
EDITORIAL ROLES
Associate Editor - Tyndale New Testament Commentary Series
IN SUBMISSION
“Was Jesus ‘Angered’ or ‘Moved’? Mark 1:41 Revisited,”
“New Exodus Traditions in Earliest Christianity,” in S. E. Porter and A. Pitts, ed. Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement(ECHC4; Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).
PAPERS AND LECTURES
UPCOMING
“What Caesar Has Coming to Him: Another Look at Mark 12:13-17,” SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Ga., November 00, 2015
“The Grain of Truth behind the Parable of Salt (Or How Redaction Criticism Can Help Positively Identify the Words of Jesus),” SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Ga., November 00, 2015
“Papyrus Egerton 2 as Witness to a pre-Johannine Source? A Component of the Watson Thesis Revisited,” ETS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Ga., November 00, 2015
DELIVERED
“Giving Caesar His Due: The Religio-Political Significance of Mark 12:13-17,” ETS Annual Meeting, San Diego, Ca., November 21, 2014
“The Gospel of Thomas: Relic on the Battlefield of Scriptural Authority,”ETS Annual Meeting, San Diego, Ca., November 20, 2014
“A Review of Jonathan Pennington’s How to Read the Gospels Wisely,”ETS Annual Meeting, San Diego, Ca., November 20, 2014
“A Response to Beverly Roberts Gaventa, ‘Which Humans? What Response? A Reflection on Pauline Theology’,”North Park Theological Seminary Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture, Chicago, Ill., September 25, 2014.
“From Stories to Scriptures: When Did the Gospels Become Authoritative?” Green Scholars Lectureship, Springfield, Mo., June 17, 2014.
“Poverty and Liturgy in the Life of Jesus and in the Life of the Church,” Beauty, Poverty, and Simplicity Conference, Mundelein, Ill.,March 14, 2014
“Ancient Gnosticism and its Re-emergence in Contemporary Culture,” and “Irenaeus against the Gnostics–How and Why?” The Cooley Lectures: Gordon-Conwell, Charlotte, N.C., January 23-24, 2014
“The Abba Prayer: A Window on the Historical Jesus and Early Christianity,” Loyola University, Chicago, Il. October 2, 2013
“Upper Case ‘Son’ and Lower Case ‘Sons’: The Dominical Roots of Jesus’ Filial (Self-)Identity,” SBL Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Md., November 23, 2013
“The Historical Jesus, the Synoptic Problem and Romanticism’s Myth of Origins,” ETS Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Md., November 21, 2013
“The Kingdom of God,” Pastorum Conference, Chicago, Il., June 4, 2012
“Backstory to the Bible: A Fresh Look at Who Wrote the New Testament and Why,” David C. Jones Lectureship, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Mo, March 2, 2012
“Pseudonymity and Canon Redux: The Meade Thesis and Its Variations Twenty-five Years Later,”ETS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Ca.. November 17, 2011
“Response to ‘An Evaluation of Perrin’s Thesis,”ETS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Ca.. November 18, 2011
“The Historical Jesus and the Cultic Context of the Great Commandment (Mark 12:28-32 par.),”SBL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Ca.. November 21, 2011