C. Clifton Black 107 Hodge Hall 497-7762 clifton.black@ptsem.edu

C. Clifton Black, Princeton Theological Seminary’s Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology, earned his M.Div. from Emory University and his Ph.D. from Duke University. He is interested in New Testament exegesis, theology, and the history of interpretation, with a focus on the four Gospels. He teaches courses on biblical theology and the practice of ministry, prayer in the New Testament, the Gospel of Mark, and the parables of Jesus. An ordained United Methodist minister, he has served as editor with John T. Carroll of The New Testament Library from Westminster John Knox Press.

In October, 2006, Professor Black delivered the Huber H. Drumwright Lectureship at Baylor University. In that same month he also led a four-week seminar, “Understanding the New Testament,” at the First Presbyterian Church of Westfield, New Jersey. During March, 2007, he led another series, “Journeying Through Lent with the Gospel of Mark,” at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton. In April, 2007, he delivered on the PTS campus two invited lectures: “The Gospel of Mark and the Historical Jesus,” as part of the Second Princeton–Prague Symposium on Methodological Approaches to Jesus, and “The Gospel According to Johnny Cash” for the Academy of Parish Clergy. On April 14, 2007, he was elected to membership in The American Theological Society (founded in 1912), which is based on commitment to critical theological scholarship and professional productivity. At the end of the current academic year Professor Black will retire from four years of chairing the Seminary’s Department of Biblical Studies, and in 2007–2008 will be a member in residence at Princeton’s Center of Theological Inquiry, where he aims, among other things, to complete a commentary on Mark’s Gospel and to begin research on another project, “Revisiting Biblical Theology.” Finally, Professor Black notes the publication of his book, Anatomy of the New Testament: A Guide to Its Structure and Meaning, Sixth Edition, coauthored with Robert A. Spivey and D. Moody Smith (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007).

Major Publications
Mark: Images of an Apostolic Interpreter (Fortress/T&T Clark, 2001)
The Rhetoric of the Gospel: Theological Artistry in the Gospels and Acts (Chalice, 2001)
Anatomy of the New Testament, sixth edition, with Robert A. Spivey and D. Moody Smith (Prentice Hall, 2007)