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J. Ross Wagner
Associate Professor of New Testament
Department of Biblical Studies
11 Tennent Hall
Phone: 609.497.7856
Fax: 609.497.7829
Email: ross.wagner@ptsem.edu

 
Profile

J. Ross Wagner, associate professor of New Testament at PrincetonTheological Seminary, earned his M.Div. and M.A. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and his Ph.D. from Duke University. His interests and courses focus on the interpretation of Scripture in the Second Temple period and early Christianity, the Septuagint, the history of early Judaism, and Pauline theology. He is a member of the United Methodist Church and has been active teaching Sunday school, leading worship, singing in the choir, and assisting with ministries to the homeless. He serves on the steering committees of the Pauline Soteriology Group and the Greek Bible Consultation of the Society of Biblical Literature. Since 2002, he is editor of the Resources for Biblical Studies: New Testament Series (Society of Biblical Literature).

  
 
Major Publications

“From the Heavens to the Heart:  The Dynamics of Psalm 19 as Prayer,” in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 61 (1999): 245–61
Heralds of the Good News:  Paul and Isaiah “In Concert” in the Letter to the Romans.  Supplements to Novum Testamentum 101 (Leiden:  Brill, 2002)
“Reading Romans in Hurricane-Devastated Honduras: A Model of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Conversation,” with Mark D. Baker, in Missiology:  An International Review 32 (2004):  367–83