Curriculum Vitae

Education

A.B. – Bob Jones University
M.Div. – McCormick Theological Seminary
Ph.D. – Harvard University

Employment

Dennis R. MacDonald has taught New Testament and Christian origins at Goshen College, the Iliff School of Theology, and the Claremont School of Theology. 

From 1999-2010 he served as the director of The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity at Claremont Graduate University. 

For the academic year of 1985-1986 he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School, and for the spring term in 1991 he was a Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary (NYC). Twice he was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

In 1984-1985 he was President of the Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Region of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, and in 2005-2006 he was President of Pacific Region of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. He also has served on editorial boards, chaired program units for various professional societies, and appeared as an authority on A&E, PBS, and the History Channel.

Research Interests

For the most part his scholarship has been devoted to Christian apocryphal writings, the Synoptic Problem, and the influence of classical Greek literature, especially the Homeric epics, on Jewish and Christian narratives

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