Craig Blomberg

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Craig Blomberg is distinguished professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary in Colorado. He joined the faculty of Denver Seminary in 1986.

Multimedia MP3s Open Forum on Difficult New Testament Passages The DaVinci Code (Part 1): Was There a Plan to Suppress "Secret" Gospels? The DaVinci Code (Part 2): Was There a Conspiracy to Concoct a Divine Jesus? Love God With All Your Mind In Search of the Historical Jesus Can We Know Anything Accurately About Jesus Can We Know Anything Accurately About Jesus II Does History Really Teach us of Jesus?

Dr. Blomberg completed his PhD in New Testament, specializing in the parables and the writings of Luke-Acts, at Aberdeen University in Scotland. He received the MA from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a BA from Augustana College. Before joining the faculty of Denver Seminary, he taught at Palm Beach Atlantic College and was a research fellow in Cambridge, England with Tyndale House.

Blomberg is known for his wide interaction with mainstream scholarship and his willingness to challenge the evangelical status quo. For example, he has been outspoken in chiding evangelicals for their blanket condemnation of Liberation theology, he has often been critical of American evangelical scholarship, and he controversially fostered a dialogue with Mormon professor Stephen Robinson of BYU, which resulted in the book How Wide the Divide? An Evangelical and a Mormon in Conversation (1997).

[edit] Publications

• From Pentecost to Patmos: An Introduction to Acts through Revelation (B & H, 2006)
• Contagious Holiness: Jesus' Meals with Sinners (IVP, 2005)
• Making Sense of the New Testament (Baker, 2004)
• Preaching the Parables (Baker, 2004)
• Two Views on Women in Ministry (co-ed. with James Beck; Zondervan, 2001)
• The Historical Reliability of John's Gospel: Issues and Commentary (IVP, 2002)
• Neither Poverty nor Riches (IVP, 2001)
• Heart, Soul and Money (College Press, 2000)
• How Wide the Divide?: A Mormon & An Evangelical in Conversation (IVP, 1997)
• Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey (Broadman & Holman, 1997)
• 1 Corinthians, NIV Application Commentary (Zondervan, 1995)
• Introduction to Biblical Interpretation (with William Klein and Robert Hubbard; Word, 1993; Nelson, rev. 2004)
• Matthew, New American Commentary (Broadman, 1992)
• Interpreting the Parables (IVP, 1990)
• Historical Reliability of the Gospels (IVP, 1987, rev. 2007)
• Gospel Perspectives, vol. 6, The Miracles of Jesus (co-ed. with David Wenham; JSOT, 1986; wipf & Stock, 2003)

[edit] See also

• Historical Jesus

[edit] External links

• Apologia Report with Craig Blomberg: A Preliminary Interview

[edit] Online writings

• The Seventy-Four 'Scholars': Who Does the Jesus Seminar Really Speak For?
• The New Testament Definition of Heresy (Or When do Jesus and the Apostles Get Really Mad?) (PDF), JETS, 2002
• The Globalization of Hermeneutics (PDF), JETS, 1995
• Interpreting Old Testament Prophetic Literature in Matthew: Double Fulfilment
• Todays New International Version: The Untold Story of a Good Translation (PDF)
• New Testament Miracles and Higher Criticism: Climbing Up the Slippery Slope (PDF), JETS, 1984