James H. Charlesworth

 

313 Lenox House

497-7920

james.charlesworth@ptsem.edu

George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature. B.D., Duke University Divinity School; Ph.D., Duke University Graduate School; E.T., École Biblique de Jerusalem. His teaching interests are in Early Judaism and Christian Origins, with special attention to Jesus Research, the Gospel of John, the Apocalypse of John, Judaism and Christianity today, and the New Testament and sociology. Chalesworth is editor of The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and The Dead Sea Scrolls: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translation. He has written and edited numerous books and his work has been recognized with honors from many countries (including the first Frank More Cross Publications Award). He has been Lady Davis Professor in the Hebrew University, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, and Annual Professor of the Albright Institute. He serves on the Steering Committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and for over 25 years has helped convene sessions of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. (United Methodist)

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