Beyond the Renaissance: Critical Texts and Bible Translation

David Lyle Jeffrey is known as a medievalist and as a scholar of biblical tradition in Western Literature and art. His books include A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature (1992), The Early English Lyric and Franciscan Spirituality (1975); Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (1984); English Spirituality in the Age of Wyclif (1988; 2001); People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture (1996); Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture (2003) and a co-authored book on The Bible and the University (2007). Most recently he has published Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice (2011), co-authored by Gregory Maillet, The King James Bible and the World it Made (2011) and Luke: a Theological Commentary (2012).

His articles appear regularly in Chinese as well as western academic journals, including Foreign Literature (Beijing), the Journal for Biblical Literature Studies (Henan) and the Journal of Christian Culture Studies (Renmin). Currently he has forthcoming chapters for the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism and Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible, and a series of articles on Christianity and Marxism as well as Christianity and Confucianism in China. His western articles have appeared in such journals as the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Shakespeare Studies, Viator, Christianity and Literature, Interpretation, The American Benedictine Review, Franciscan Studies, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Church History, The University of Toronto Quarterly, Religion and Literature, Shofar, Nova et Vetera, Modern Theology and Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education. His current projects include a book on the role of recent biblical translation in English in the secularization of Christianity and an edition of the English works of Richard Rolle.

* Response by Dr. Christopher Hutson, Abilene Christian University

The Contents and Challenges of the Dead Sea Biblical Scrolls

Peter Flint serves as the Canada Research Chair in Dead Sea Scrolls Studies and actively promotes Scrolls studies through sponsored symposia, teaching, writing and delivering public lectures. He is the author of numerous studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the critically acclaimed The Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls and the Book of Psalms (E. J. Brill), co-author of the widely-read Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (Harper San Francisco), and editor of the major two-volume collection The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (E. J. Brill). Dr. Flint serves as a General Editor of one series on the Old Testament: "The Formation and Interpretation of Old Testament Literature" (E. J. Brill), as well as three series on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He has also edited over 25 Dead Sea Scrolls for three volumes in the internationally acclaimed series "Discoveries in the Judaean Desert" (Oxford University Press).

* Response by Dr. Eric Niccum, Abilene Christian University

The Making of a Bible Classic: The Translation of the King James Bible

Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester, England; author of numerous books on John Milton; most recently a full-length biography of Milton (2008); a 12-volume edition of Milton’s works (2008-2010); a history of the King James Bible, The Bible: The Story of the King James Version, 1611-2011 (2011), and an edition of the 1611 KJV Bible (2011), all with Oxford University Press. Dr. Campbell keeps an active international speaking schedule, and also has decades of research and interaction with Islamic texts and cultures. He serves as Senior Scholar for the Green Scholars Initiative, KJV Project.

* Host Organization - The Nazarene Denomination
* Host Institution — Ohio Christian University

The Greatest Archaeological Discoveries and the Old Testament

Edwin Yamauchi is Professor Emeritus of History at Miami University (OH). Over several decades he has authored scholarly articles on ancient history, and numerous books. Some of them include Africa and the Bible, Persia and the Bible, and The Stones and the Scriptures. He is co-editor of Peoples of the Old Testament World, and has appeared on a number of television documentaries. Dr. Yamauchi’s research has been cited in numerous studies, from the leading journals in ancient history to popular works such as Lee Strobel’s The Case for Christ. He has served as the president of the Institute for Biblical Research, and the Near East Archaeological Society. He is a founding advisory board member of the Green Scholars Initiative.

* Response by Dr. Brad Young, Oral Roberts University

The Green Collection, Scientific Breakthroughs and Bible Translation

Scott Carroll is the founding Director of the Green Collection, Principal Investigator of the Green Scholars Initiative, and Research Professor of Manuscript Studies and the Biblical Tradition at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. He directed the excavation of the earliest, unoccupied monastery in the world at Wadi Natrun, Egypt, recovering important material evidence about the earliest stages of Christian monasticism. He has edited and published numerous undocumented ancient and medieval texts primarily written in Greek, Coptic, Syriac, Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic. He has won various teaching awards, and has over 30 students who have gone on to earn Ph.D.s and teach in Higher Education. His work has been featured throughout the media, including his lead role in forming the Passages Exhibition. He led the development and execution of the KJV exhibits featuring the Green Collection at the Vatican Embassy (D.C.) and Baylor University’s Armstrong Browning Library, which have garnered around 100 million views among various media channels. Dr. Carroll has done numerous documentaries, TV and radio interviews, including being featured on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. He also lectures regularly for the Asian Baptist Theological Institute throughout Asia. His Odyssey in Egypt Program garnered international acclaim, including a place in the Smithsonian for creative pedagogy.

* Wesleyan World Headquarters - Host

Manuscripts Discoveries and Bible Translation

Scot McKendrick serves as the Head of History and Classical Studies, The British Library. He has contributed to major exhibitions in several countries. He has facilitated projects for the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, acted as consultant to the Royal Academy of Arts for the exhibition “Illuminating the Renaissance,” and is a founding committee member of the Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts in London. He lectures widely in London and at British universities, as well as in Florence, Antwerp, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. He has a wide array of books on manuscripts, e.g., The Illuminated Manuscript: Makers and Interpreters; Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture; The Bible as Book: Transmission of the Greek Text; In a Monastery Library: Preserving Codex Sinaiticus and the Greek Written Heritage, and; Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1550. His Illuminating the Renaissance: the Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe won the Eric Mitchell Prize for the best exhibition catalogue and The Eugène Baie Prize for the best publication. In the late 1990s he assisted Drs. Carroll and Pattengale with the “The Bible as Book” conferences at Hampton Court, Herefordshire.

* Response by Dr. John Harrison, Oklahoma Christian University

Papyri Discoveries and Bible Translation

Dirk Obbink is the Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature in the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University and is the head of the prestigious Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project. Obbink has achieved the rare distinction of a dual appointment as an American University Professor (Collegiate Professor of Papyrology, University of Michigan) and Fellow and Tutor in the University of Oxford (Christ Church). He is also Director of the Imaging Papyri Project at Oxford. This project is working to capture digitized images of Greek and Latin papyri held by the Ashmolean Museum (the Oxyrhynchus Papyri), and the Bodleian Library and the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples (the carbonized scrolls from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum), for the creation of an Oxford bank of digitized images of papyri. In addition to several books and many scholarly articles, he has led the publication of nearly 80 volumes on the Oxyrhynchus texts. Dr. Obbink serves as Senior Scholar for the Green Scholars Initiative for both the Papyri and Climaci Rescriptus Projects.

* Response by Dr. Jeffrey Fish, Baylor University

What Do William Tyndale and C. S. Lewis have in Common?

Alister McGrath is among the most recognized authors on Christian apologetics in the English-speaking world. He was elected University Research Lecturer in Theology at Oxford University in 1993, and also served concurrently as research professor of theology at Regent College, Vancouver, from 1993-7. In 1995, he was elected Principal of Wycliffe Hall, and in 1999 was awarded a personal chair in theology at Oxford University, with the title of "Professor of Historical Theology". He earned an Oxford Doctorate of Divinity in 2001 for his research on historical and systematic theology. In September 2004, he resigned as Principal of Wycliffe Hall to become the first Director of the newly-established Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. In October 2006, he was elected to a Senior Research Fellowship at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, where he began directing a major new research project on natural theology, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, while also serving as President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005. In September 2008, McGrath took up the newly-established Chair of Theology, Ministry and Education in the Department of Education and Professional Studies at King's College, London. He also serves as the academic leader of the Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture, and is involved both in theological research and the professional development of clergy from a range of Christian denominations. He serves as Senior Scholar for the Green Scholars Initiative, King James Version Project.

* Response by Dr. Charles Bressler, Indiana Wesleyan University

Richard Rolle's Impact on the English Bible

Ralph Hanna serves as Professor of Palaeography and Tutorial Fellow, Keble College, Oxford University. He is a noted scholar on Regionalism in Middle English literature, alliterative poetry (especially Piers Plowman), and language contact in England. Among his recent publications are London Literature, 1300-1380 (Cambridge), Richard Rolle: Uncollected Verse and Prose with related Northern Texts (Oxford), The Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane: A Critical Edition (Woodbridge), and Speculum Vitae: A Reading Text (Oxford). He has held editorships with many of the world’s leading journals and sponsoring societies, such as Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA; Medieval Academy of America; Johns Hopkins University (ELH); Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts; The Chaucer Library Committee; Council of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, and Council of the Early English Text Society. He has served on advisory boards for many of the world’s greatest libraries and repositories of special collections, including the Huntington Library, Oxford University computing center, Cambridge University, Calgary University, Queen’s University, Belfast, and many others. Dr. Hanna serves as Senior Scholar for the Green Scholars Initiative, Richard Rolle Project.

* Response by Dr. Bobby Kelly, Oklahoma Baptist University

Answers to New Theories Regarding How We Got the Bible

Jerry Pattengale serves as Director of the Green Scholars Initiative. He also is Distinguished Senior Fellow, Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion; Senior Fellow, The Sagamore Institute; Assistant Provost, Indiana Wesleyan University; Director of National Conversations, and; Associate Publisher, Christian Scholar’s Review. He received the National Student Advocate Award (USC), two Professor of the Year Awards (APU), an NEH Award to Isthmia, Greece, and established the record viewership for the prominent Teaching Professor broadcasts (Madison, WI). He continues to speak at universities and conferences nationally. Books this year include Biblical Evidence: Logical Approaches to Objectivity (summer release); Beyond Integration (winter release); and Taking Every Thought Captive. Other recent books include Straight Talk: Clear Answers about Today’s Christianity; Why I Teach; The Purpose-guided Student; Helping Sophomores Succeed; and Visible Solutions for Invisible Students. Dr. Pattengale is one of the leaders of Purpose-Guided Education ©, an approach to student success built around life’s ultimate questions and humanities curricula. His “Accidental Author” newsprint series has run over a decade (Paxton Media) and he contributes regularly to Books & Culture. He and Scott Carroll received international acclaim for their Odyssey in Egypt initiative, attached to the excavation in Wadi Natrun, Egypt and schools in Western Michigan.

* Interdenominational Theological Center - Host

The Greatest Archaeological Discoveries and the New Testament

Robert E. Cooley is President Emeritus of Gordon-Conwell Seminary, and remains active in its Charlotte campus. Recognized widely for his research and writing in the field of archaeology, Dr. Cooley has overseen a number of excavation projects in the USA, and during the past fifty years he has directed excavations at locations such as Tell Dothan, Khirbet Haiyan, et'Tell, and Khirbet Raddana (Ramallah) in Palestine, and at Tell er-Retaba in Egypt. He has served as the principal investigator related to these excavations for over 100 monographs published by the Missouri State University Center for Archaeological Research. In addition to his excavation activities, Dr. Cooley has directed more than 70 study trips throughout the Middle East. As a working scholar, he has been active in a variety of professional societies, in numerous public, community and state civic activities, and served Christianity Today as a Senior Editor. Dr. Cooley is the past president of The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada; and, has served on boards of trustees at European and American institutions. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Museum of the Bible, which upon its completion will house much of the Green Collection.

* Host Institution -- Lee University (Cleveland, TN)
* Host Organization - North Metro Baptist Church, Lawrenceville, Dr. Frank Cox
* Dan Hoffman, Lee University, respondent

Reading the Bible in Unusual Geographic Locations

Lauren F. Winner is the author of numerous books, including Girl Meets God and Mudhouse Sabbath and A Cheerful & Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia (Yale University Press). She has appeared on PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Books and Culture, and Christianity Today. Winner has degrees from Duke, Columbia, and Cambridge universities, and holds a Ph.D. in history. The former book editor for Beliefnet, Lauren teaches at Duke Divinity School, and lives in Durham, North Carolina. Lauren travels extensively to lecture and teach. During the academic year of 2007-2008, she was a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, and during the academic year of 2010-2011, she was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University.

* Point University - Host

How Reading the Bible Saved Civilization

Tim Larsen holds the chair formerly held by Mark Noll, the Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College (IL). He has written or edited around twenty books, and some of the recent titles include: A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians (Oxford); The Decalogue through the Centuries (Westminster John Knox); Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England (Oxford -- Named the Book of the Year for 2006 by Books & Culture); Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid-Victorian England (Paternoster Press); The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Pope John Paul II (Brazos Press); The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology (Cambridge), and; Women, Ministry, and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms (InterVarsity). His primary intellectual interests are in the areas of British history, historical theology, Christian thought, and intellectual currents and controversies.

The Earliest Hebrew and Greek Old Testament Scriptures

Emanuel Tov is best known for serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project. He is a Professor in the Department of the Bible at Hebrew University, with a deep interest in Septuagintal studies. He has a long list of publications, including: The Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche--A Comprehensive Facsimile Edition of the Texts from the Judean Desert, (Brill); Companion Volume to The Dead Sea Scrolls Microfiche Edition (Brill); The Greek Minor Prophets Scrolls from Nahal Hever (Clarendon Press); Second corrected printing of: The Greek Minor Prophets Scrolls from Nahal Hever (Clarendon Press); The Textual Criticism of the Bible--An Introduction (Mosad Bialik); Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. (Fortress Press and Van Gorcum); The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research: Revised and Enlarged Second Edition (Simor Ltd.).

* First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Rev. Johnny Hunt – Host

Evidence for the Earliest Gospels

Dr. Wallace influences students across the country through his textbook on intermediate Greek grammar. It is used in more than two-thirds of the nation’s schools that teach that subject. He is the senior New Testament editor of the NET Bible and coeditor of the NET-Nestle Greek-English diglot. Recently his scholarship has shifted from syntactical and text-critical issues to more specific work in John, Mark, and early Christology. However he still works extensively in textual criticism, and has founded The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, an institute with an initial purpose to preserve Scripture by taking digital photographs of all known Greek New Testament manuscripts. His postdoctoral work includes work on Greek grammar at Tyndale House in Cambridge and textual criticism studies at the Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster. When he is not involved in scholarly pursuits, Dr. Wallace and wife, Pati, enjoy spending time with their boys and beagles. He has published nine books. His debate this year with Bart Ehrman proved to be one the largest of its kind in recent history.

Biblical Insights from Excavations at Mt. Ararat and Qumran—The Worlds of Noah’s Ark and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Randall Price is the Executive Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at Liberty University, where he also serves as Distinguished Research Professor. He is Adjunct Professor of Apologetics at Veritas Seminary (San Diego, California). Dr. Price has been the director of excavations on the Qumran Plateau (site of the Dead Sea Scroll community) in Israel since 2002. In 1993 he founded World of the Bible Ministries, Inc. and has served as its President and traveling speaker since. He has written over a dozen books related to the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient texts. His research has also taken him to Mt. Ararat, where he has served several seasons on the leading excavation team.

* CarterBaldwin Executive Search - Host

The Bible’s influence on America through C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien

Charles E. Bressler is Senior Scholar for Undergraduate Research at Indiana Wesleyan University, where he is also Professor of English. The fifth edition of his text, Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (Prentice Hall), was published in the fall of 2010. He has also delivered many scholarly presentations at such venues as the British Tolkien Society, the National Hawthorne Society, the C. S. Lewis Oxbridge Conference, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and the American Popular Culture Association. Dr. Bressler's primary areas of research include literary theory and criticism, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. While writing articles for such journals as Touchstone, he is also working on a scholarly edition of a Hawthorne romance, a new English grammar text for freshman composition courses, and a text showing the influence of George MacDonald and G. K. Chesterton in the lives and literary works of the Oxford Christians, known as The Inklings.

* Host Organization, Growing Leaders
* Host Institution, Toccoa Falls College

Hard Sayings of the Bible—Ancient Evidence and Meaning in the Modern Context

Dr. Kaiser is the Colman M. Mockler distinguished Professor of Old Testament and President Emeritus of Gordon-Conwell. He also served as the seminary’s President from 1997-2006. Prior to coming to Gordon-Conwell, Dr. Kaiser taught Bible and archaeology at Wheaton College (IL) and taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in several capacities. In addition to teaching in the Old Testament Department, he was Senior Vice President of Education, Academic Dean, and Senior Vice President of Distance Learning and Ministries. Dr. Kaiser currently serves on the boards of several Christian organizations. He has contributed to such publications as Journal for the Study of Old Testament, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Christianity Today, Westminster Theological Journal, and Evangelical Quarterly. He has also written numerous books, some of which are: Toward an Old Testament Theology; Ecclesiastes: Total Life; Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching; Hard Sayings of the Old Testament; Communicator's Commentary: Micah to Malachi; Leviticus in The New Interpreter's Bible; Exodus in the Expositor's Bible Commentary; The Messiah in the Old Testament; A History of Israel; and co-authored An Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics: The Search for Meaning.

Gods Behaving Badly—Bible’s Message for Modern Issues

Peter Ward is a Senior Lecturer at Kings College London, School of Social Science and Professional Studies. His most recent book is Gods Behaving Badly: Religion and Celebrity Culture (Baylor), which has launched a busy speaking tour. His ethnographic research work is about to be released. He is also author of several other works, including Mass Culture: The Interface of Eucharist and Mission; Participation and Mediation: A Practical Theology for the Liquid Church; “Affective Alliance or Circuits of Power: The Production and Consumption of Contemporary Charismatic Worship in Britain” in International Journal of Practical Theology; “Coming to Sermon: The Practice of Doctrine in the Preaching of John Calvin” in Scottish Journal of Theology; “Prevalence and predictors of mental incapacity in psychiatric in-patients” in British Journal of Psychiatry, and “Reliability of mental capacity assessments in psychiatric in-patients” in British Journal of Psychiatry.

The Bible and Culture Making

Andy Crouch is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, Relevant, Outreach and Leadership. A senior editor at Christianity Today International, he has served as executive producer of the documentary films Where Faith and Culture Meet and Round Trip and was editorial director of the Christian Vision Project from 2005 to 2008. He is a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture, and a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute. He continues to be one of the most popular speakers among Christian evangelical events.

* Indiana Wesleyan University--Host

What the Gallup World Poll Tells Us about the Bible’s Global Appeal

Byron Johnson is Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University, Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) as well as director of the Program on Prosocial Behavior both at Baylor. He is a Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute (Princeton), and Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Jewish and Community Research (San Francisco). Johnson is chief advisor for the Center for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society, Peking University (Beijing). He is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. Professor Johnson has directed research centers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Pennsylvania. He recently completed a series of studies for the Department of Justice on the role of religion in prosocial youth behavior. He is recognized as a leading authority on the scientific study of religion, the efficacy of faith-based organizations, domestic violence, and criminal justice. Recent publications have examined the impact of faith-based programs on recidivism reduction and prisoner reentry. Along with other ISR colleagues he completed a series of empirical studies on the religious landscape of China. Johnson is also collaborating with other scholars on several studies of religious intolerance and tolerance in America. He is currently collaborating with the Gallup Organization on a series of studies addressing religion and spirituality in the United States as well as internationally. Johnson’s research has been used in consultation with the Department of Justice, Department of Defense, Department of Labor, and the National Institutes of Health.

* Global Media Outreach - Host

What the Gallup World Poll Tells Us about the Bible’s Global Appeal

Jon Clifton is Deputy Director of the Gallup World Poll, an ongoing global study conducted in 150 countries, representing 98% of the world’s adult population. Clifton directs the overall strategies for the Gallup World Poll and Gallup Daily tracking and has been involved with both since their inception. Most recently, he became a member of Gallup’s Public Release Committee, the group that oversees and maintains Gallup’s public release standards for data, research, and methodology. He also leads Gallup global partnerships that include governments, NGOs, and foundations. Clifton is a member of the Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll Advisory Committee of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools and the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Public Diplomacy Initiative. He is a non- resident Senior Fellow at the University of Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion and is a Special Olympics volunteer. Clifton received a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from the University of Michigan. He received a juris doctorate with a focus in international law from the University of Nebraska and resides in Washington DC.

* Global Media Outreach - Host

Are Differences in the Manuscripts a Problem for Christian Faith?

Ken Schenck is Dean and Professor of New Testament and Christian Ministry for Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Cosmology and Eschatology in Hebrews, A Brief Guide to Philo, and Paul: Soldier of Peace. After teaching at Indiana Wesleyan University for ten years, he became the founding academic Dean of Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University, an innovative seminary that is known for its emphasis on the practice of ministry and the integration of Bible and theology into its practical courses. He is married to Angela and has four children.

The Bible Across Borders: Christian Apologetics as Cross-Cultural Persuasion

Rev. Dr Benno van den Toren is Academic Dean and tutor in Christian Doctrine at Wycliffe Hall and the University of Oxford. He is originally from the Netherlands where he did his doctoral research on apologetics, Karl Barth, and postmodernism. After working with the Dutch evangelical student movement, he moved for eight years with his family to French-speaking Africa, where he taught systematic theology at the Bangui Evangelical School of Theology. Benno publishes in Dutch, English, and French, and currently concentrates on questions relating to cross-cultural apologetic witness and to the nature of Christian doctrine and ethics in a multicultural world. Benno is also extraordinary professor in the theology of charismatic renewal at the VU University in Amsterdam. He is married to Berdine and they have three sons. Benno enjoys travelling and getting to know people with different cultural backgrounds.

Among his recent publications are Reasons for my Hope: Responding to non-Christian Friends and Christian Apologetics as Cross-Cultural Dialogue (T. & T. Clark, 2011). The latter was recently hailed as ‘one of the most significant books on apologetics to have been published in recent decades’.

Evidence that the Gospels Are Based on Eyewitness Testimony

Peter J. Williams (PhD University of Cambridge) is the Warden (CEO) of Tyndale House, Cambridge, UK, a world-leading evangelical center for biblical research. In addition he is a member of the English Standard Version committee, chairman of the International Greek New Testament Project, honorary Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the University of Aberdeen, and Affiliated Lecturer in the University of Cambridge.