George L. Collord Professor of New Testament
Ph.D., Duke University
james.charlesworth@ptsem.edu
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 James H. Charlesworth, Princeton’s George L. Collord
Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, specializes in the Apocrypha and
Pseudepigrapha of the Old and New Testaments, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, Jesus
research, and the Gospel of John. As director of Princeton’s Dead Sea Scrolls
Project, Dr. Charlesworth has worked on the computer-enhanced photographing and
translating of the Qumran scrolls in order to make available for the first time both an
accurate text and an English translation of these documents. He also serves as director of
the Annual Symposium on the Bible at Florida Southern College. He was the 1998–1999
annual professor at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem and three times an Alexander von
Humboldt Fellow at the University of Tübingen. An ordained minister in the United
Methodist Church, he serves as advisor to the denomination’s World Missionary
Council. He also preaches and lectures throughout the world.
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