The King James Bible: Past, Present and Future

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.

The Essenes and the Dead Sea 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).

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.

Evidence for the Earliest Gospels

Dr. Wallace has been on faculty at Dallas Seminary for more than a quarter century. He is professor of New Testament Studies and specializes in Greek grammar, textual criticism, exegesis, and biblical theology. He is also the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (www.csntm.org), an institute whose initial goal is to photograph every Greek New Testament manuscript and post the images on the Internet. He has been a consultant on four Bible translations, and has authored, edited, or contributed to more than two-dozen books. He and his bride of 38 years, Pati, have four adult sons, three wonderful daughters-in-law, and one awesome granddaughter (pictures available upon request). Dan and Pati live with a Beagle, a Labrador Retriever, and a cat. They like the dogs. Dan is a fourth-generation native Californian and former surf bum from Newport Beach.

Moses: Shepherd Leader and Torah Scribe

Dr. Tim Laniak serves at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina as the Dean, Professor of Old Testament, and Mentor for the Christian Leadership Doctor of Ministry Track. He received his bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College, his M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Seminary, and his doctorate in Old Testament and Early Judaism from Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Laniak has published a book on social anthropology and the Bible (Shame and Honor in the Book of Esther, Scholars Press, 1997), the NIBC commentary on the book of Esther (Hendrickson Publishers, 2003), biblical theological resources on leadership (through Gordon Conwell’s Center for the Development of Evangelical Leadership), and A Handbook for Hebrew Exegesis. While serving as the Annual Professor at the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in 2003-04, Dr. Laniak researched two books on shepherd leadership: Shepherds After My Own Heart: Pastoral Traditions in the Bible (InterVarsity Press, 2006) and While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks: Reflections on Leadership From the World of the Bible (ShepherdLeader Publications, 2007). He began the ministry of ShepherdLeader.com in 2007. His most recent book, Finding the Lost Images of God (Zondervan, 2012), explores seven biblical metaphors for God and His people.

After ordination in an independent evangelical church, Dr. Laniak and his wife Maureen began ministering cross-culturally, with short-term involvements together in over fifteen countries. They spent five years co-directing an international community of students and scholars in Boston with residents from over sixty nationalities. They also served an elderly immigrant community there for five years. Having lived in Israel for two years, Dr. Laniak frequentlyspeaks to groups about the historical and religious dynamics of the Middle East, and occasionally takes educational and experiential tours to the region.

Tim and his wife Maureen are actively involved in public education in Union County, North Carolina. They co-founded Life Long Learning, a non-profit company that offered non-traditional educational opportunities, and Union Academy, a charter school emphasizing character education and community service. They have three children, ages 18, 21 and 23, and live in Weddington, North Carolina.

Paul and His Epistles

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 innovate 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 Archaeology of Jerusalem: A Firsthand View of the Earliest Scriptures’ Discovery and of the Temple Excavations

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Special Introduction: Jerusalem's 2nd Temple: 3D and Interactive Technological Advances for Biblical Studies

Over the past 30 years Dr . James C. Martin has taught hundreds of biblical study programs in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, and Greece. He served several years in the pastorate before moving to Jerusalem to work on postgraduate studies in Jerusalem with Israeli scholars, focusing on the historical, cultural and geographical context of the Bible. From 1983-1989 he was program director and an instructor at the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies In 1989 he founded Bible World Seminars to continue teaching the Bible in the land of the Bible. He was lead author of "A Visual Guide to Bible Events" and "A Visual Guide to Gospel Events" published by Baker Books. Martin is associated with with Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary - Cooley Center and Bible-Journey Biblical Study Program and is also currently working on 3D interactive Bible study products.

Since the early 1980's Jim and his wife Stacey have also been involved in photography and video filing throughout the Middle East and Europe. Their photos appear in dozens of titles including the NIV Archaeology Study Bible, The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, The Zondervan Bible Dictionary, Halley's Bible Handbook, Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary, A Visual Guide to Bible Events" and A Visual Guide to Gospel Events published by Baker books.

The Remarkable Lives of Saints Ignatius and Polycarp: Answers to Important Questions from the Early Church

Michael Holmes is University Professor of Biblical Studies and Early Christianity at Bethel University, where he has taught since 1982. He has also taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Princeton Theological Seminary, and was Chair of the Department of Biblical and Theological Studies from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, the Institute for Biblical Research, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the North American Patristics Society, he serves on the Executive Committee of the International Greek New Testament Project, the Editorial Board for New Testament Studies, and the Board of Directors of the Center for the Study of NT Manuscripts (www.csntm.org). Primary research interests include the text and transmission of the New Testament, the formation of the Biblical canon, and the Apostolic Fathers (a collection of early Christian writings). His publications include more than fifty articles or essays and eleven books, among them The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations (3rd ed., 2007); The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (2010); with Klaus Wachtel, The Textual History of the Greek New Testament: Changing Views in Contemporary Research (2011), and the NIV Application Commentary: 1 and 2 Thessalonians.

Bible Translation through the Centuries: From Ancient Differences to Modern Debates

Peter (P.J.) Williams (b. 1970) is the Warden (CEO) of Tyndale House, Cambridge, UK, a world-leading evangelical center for biblical research. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he received his MA, MPhil and PhD, in the study of ancient languages related to the Bible. After his PhD he taught Hebrew and Old Testament at Cambridge University while he was a Research Fellow in Old Testament at Tyndale House (1998–2003). From 2003 to 2007 he was on the faculty of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where he became a Senior Lecturer in New Testament. In July 2007 he became Warden of Tyndale House. He is also a member of the Translation Oversight Committee of the English Standard Version of the Bible, 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. He is married to Kathryn with two children, Magdalena (2001) and Leo (2005).

The Septuagint Translators: Pioneers in the Transmission History of the Bible

Dr. Robert Hiebert is Professor of Old Testament and Director of the John William Wevers Institute for Septuagint Studies at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. He is also the Vice President of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, a Joint-Editor-in-Chief of the Society of Biblical Literature Commentary on the Septuagint (SBLCS) series, a member of the Steering Committee for The Greek Bible program unit of the Society of Biblical Literature, and a Scholar-Mentor for the Green Scholars Initiative.

Prof. Hiebert’s research has been supported by funding from various agencies, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, the Skirball Foundation, the Lilly Foundation, and the Priscilla and Stanford Reid Trust. He is the author and editor of books and articles on a range of subjects in the areas of Septuagint, Syriac Bible, textual criticism, and exegesis. His translation of the Septuagint of Genesis was published in A New English Translation of the Septuagint (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Dr. Hiebert is currently preparing the critical edition of Greek 4 Maccabees for the Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum series and a commentary on Genesis for the SBLCS series.

Old and Reliable: Why We Can Trust the NT Manuscripts

Craig A. Evans received his Ph.D. (1983) in New Testament from Claremont Graduate University and the D.Habil. (2009) from the Reformed University of Budapest. Having taught at Trinity Western University for more than twenty years, where he founded the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute and directed the Graduate Program in Biblical Studies, he is since 2002 the Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Evans has authored many books, including Jesus and His Contemporaries (Mohr Siebeck, 1995), Mark, in the Word Biblical Commentary (Nelson, 2001), Jesus and the Ossuaries (Baylor, 2003), Ancient Writings for New Testament Studies (Hendrickson, 2005), and Matthew, in the New Cambridge Bible Commentary (Cambridge, 2012).

He has lectured at Cambridge, Durham, and Oxford, and frequently speaks at scholarly and popular conferences in North America and around the world, including the well known Biblical Archaeology Society seminars, and has appeared several times on the television program “Faith and Reason” and in various specials on History Channel, Discovery Channel, the BBC, and NBC Dateline.

The Medieval Scribes and the Great Medieval Bibles

Dr Christopher de Hamel is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library, one of the most important small collections of early manuscripts in Britain. For 25 years from 1975 he was responsible for all sales of medieval manuscripts at Sotheby’s. He has doctorates from Oxford and Cambridge and honorary doctorates from St John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, and Otago University, New Zealand. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a member of the Comité international de paléographie. He is author of numerous books on illuminated manuscripts and book collecting, including Glossed Books of the Bible (1984), The Book, A History of the Bible (2001), and Bibles, An Illustrated History from Papyrus to Print (2011). He was recipient of a festschrift in 2010, The Medieval Book, Glosses from Friends and Colleagues of Christopher de Hamel (ed. J. H. Marrow, R. A. Linenthal and W. Noel)

C.S. Lewis: Scriptural Awareness for the Masses

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.

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.

The Lindisfarne Gospels: Envisioning Christianity in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland

Michelle P. Brown PhD, FSA, is a leading expert in medieval manuscript studies. Her research interests include the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, the Conversion to Christianity, Biblical and Liturgical manuscripts, early relatons between East and West (sher is currently researching manuscripts at St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai), Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Early Christian cultures and manuscript illumination and its interpretation. She is currently Professor Emeritus at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, a Visiting Professor at University College London and a Visiting Resarch Fellow at Durham University. Her former positions include the Curator of Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library, Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies and Course Tutor to the History of the Book MA at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, the Sandars Lecturer in Bibliography at Cambridge University, and Lay Canon and Chapter Member at St Paul's Cathedral, London.

Professor Brown has written, lectured and broadcast widely. Her publications include the following books: The Book of Cerne: Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600, The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts, Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: a Glossary of Technical Terms, The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe, How Christianity Came to Britain and Ireland, The Lion Companion to Christian Art, St Paul's Cathedral Guidebook, You're History, How People Make the Difference, In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000, The World of the Luttrell Psalter, Manuscripts From the Anglo-Saxon Age, The Luttrell Psalter: a Facsimile, The Holkham Bible: a Facsimile, The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Early Medieval World, and The Book and the Transformation of Britain, c.550-1050

She has also curated several major exhibitions, including: Heirs of Rome: the Transformation of the Roman World (British Museum / British Library), Painted Labyrinth: the World of the Lindisfarne Gospels (British Library), and In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000 (Smithsonian Institute)

We Are All Children of Abraham Now: How the Bible Has Shaped the History of Ideas

Francis Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies, and Resident Scholar in the Institute for Studies of Religion, at Baylor University. He holds five earned degrees including the MA and PhD in philosophy from Fordham University and the Master of Juridical Studies (in law) from the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis. He is the author or editor of over 15 books including Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007), To Everyone An Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview (InterVarsity Press, 2004), and Politics for Christians: Statecraft as Soulcraft (InterVarsity Press, 2010). He has also published over 100 academic articles, book chapters, critical reviews, and encyclopedia entries in a variety of publications. He has held visiting faculty appointments at Princeton University, where served as a 2002-2003 Madison Research Fellow in the Department of Politics, and the University of Notre Dame, where he was the 2008-09 Mary Anne Remick Senior Visiting Fellow in the Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture. For more information see francisbeckwith.com.

The Apostle Thomas and the Beginnings of the Church in India

Eckhard J. Schnabel is the Mary F. Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. After theological studies in Basel, Switzerland, missionary ministry in Europe and Latin America, and doctoral studies in Aberdeen, Scotland, Schnabel has taught at the Asian Theological Seminary in Manila, Philippines, the Biblisch-Theologische Akademie Wiedenest and the Freie Theologische Hochschule in Giessen, Germany, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield (Chicago). His major publications include Law and Wisdom from Ben Sira to Paul, Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck 1985; Inspiration und Offenbarung, Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus 1986; Das Reich Gottes als Wirklichkeit und Hoffnung,Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus 1993; Studium des Neuen Testaments, 2 vols., Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus 1999/2000; Early Christian Mission, 2 vols., Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2004; Der erste Brief des Paulus an die Korinther. Historisch-Theologische Auslegung. Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus, 2006; Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies, and Methods. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2008; 40 Questions on the End Times. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2011; The Book of Acts. Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012.

The Abitinian Martyrs and the Preservation of Scripture during the Great Persecution (A.D. 303-305)

Donald Fairbairn is married to the former Jennifer Katona, and they have two children, Trey (born 12-28-2001) and Anna Elizabeth (born 7-28-2003). Donald is the Robert E. Cooley Professor of Early Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte, and part-time Professor of Historical Theology at Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium. He has also taught extensively in Eastern Europe, especially in Ukraine. He holds an A.B. in English literature from Princeton University, an M.Div. from Denver Seminary, and a Ph.D. in patristics from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Understanding Language: A Guide for Beginning Students of Greek & Latin (CUAP, 2011), Life in the Trinity: An Introduction to Theology with the Help of the Church Fathers (IVP, 2009), Grace and Christology in the Early Church (OUP, 2003) and Eastern Orthodoxy through Western Eyes (WJKP, 2002). His books have been translated into Russian and Romanian, and he has also written two other books published only in Russian.

The Lewis Sisters and the Discovery of the Cairo Genizah

Dr Ben Outhwaite was appointed Head of the Genizah Research Unit in May 2006, having worked for the previous seven years as a researcher in the Unit. His projects for the Unit included completing the two remaining volumes in the series Hebrew Bible Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections by M.C. Davis, working on a joint project with Dr Uri Ehrlich of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, on a catalogue of liturgical items, and beginning a project to identify and describe the Hebrew and Aramaic documentary fragments throughout the T-S Collection.

Dr Outhwaite received a B.A. in Hebrew Studies and an M.Phil. in Medieval Hebrew literature from Christ's College, Cambridge. His Cambridge Ph.D. thesis, on the grammatical description of Hebrew letters in the Genizah, was completed under the supervision of Professor Geoffrey Khan.

Dr Outhwaite's research interests include the vocalization and underlying pronunciation of medieval Bible manuscripts; the medieval Hebrew language; Hebrew and Aramaic letters and documents as a source for the history of the medieval Middle East.

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The Scribes and the Great Western Manuscripts

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.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Martyn Lloyd-Jones and the British Bible League

Dr Andrew Atherstone is tutor in history and doctrine, and Latimer research fellow, at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He is a member of Oxford University's theology faculty and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research is focussed on nineteenth and twentieth century Christian history, especially Evangelicalism and Anglicanism, and his publications include Oxford's Protestant Spy: The Controversial Career of Charles Golightly (Paternoster, 2007), The Reformation: Faith and Flames (LionHudson, 2011), and (as co-editor), Engaging with Martyn Lloyd-Jones (IVP, 2011).