Craig Evans
New Testament scholar, Craig Evans, is the Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College of Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Along with countless interviews on radio networks across Canada and the US, Evans has been seen on:
Dateline NBC,
CBC,
CTV,
Day of Discovery,
and many documentaries aired on BBC, The Discovery Channel, History Channel, History Television and others.
He also has served as a consultant for the National Geographic Society.
A graduate of Claremont McKenna College, he received his M.Div. from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Claremont Graduate University in southern California. He has also been awarded the D.Habil. by the Karoli Gaspard Reformed University in Budapest.
A well-known evangelical scholar throughout the world, he is an elected member of the prestigious SNTS, a society dedicated to New Testament studies.After teaching one year at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Evans taught at Trinity Western University in British Columbia for twenty-one years, where he directed the graduate program in Biblical Studies and founded the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. He was also a Visiting Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey.
Author and editor of more than sixty books and hundreds of articles and reviews, Professor Evans has given lectures at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, Yale and other universities, colleges, seminaries and museums, such as the Field Museum in Chicago, the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. He also regularly lectures and gives talks at popular conferences and retreats on the Jesus, Archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible.
Books by Craig Evans include:
Editor, with W. F. Stinespring, Early Jewish and Christian Exegesis: Studies in Memory of William Hugh Brownlee (Homage 10; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987).
Life of Jesus Research: An Annotated Bibliography (NTTS 13; Leiden: Brill, 1989).
To See and Not Perceive: Isaiah 6.9-10 in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation (JSOTSup 64; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989).
Luke (NIBC 3; Peabody: Hendrickson, 1990; hardcover reprint, 1999).
Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1992).
Luke and Scripture: Essays on the Function of Authoritative Tradition in Luke-Acts, with James A. Sanders (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993; repr. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2001).
Editor, with James A. Sanders, Paul and the Scriptures of Israel (JSNTSup 83; SSEJC 1; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993).
Editor, with Donald A. Hagner, Anti-Semitism and Early Christianity: Issues of Polemic and Faith (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993).
Editor, with Robert L. Webb and Richard A. Wiebe, Nag Hammadi Texts and the Bible: A Synopsis and Index (NTTS 18; Leiden: Brill, 1993).
Word and Glory: On the Exegetical and Theological Background of John’s Prologue (JSNTSup 89; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993).
Editor, with James H. Charlesworth, The Pseudepigrapha and Early Biblical Interpretation (JSPSup 14; SSEJC 2; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993).
Editor, with Bruce D. Chilton, Studying the Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the State of Current Research (NTTS 19; Leiden: Brill, 1994).
Editor, with W. R. Stegner, The Gospels and the Scriptures of Israel (JSNTSup 104; SSEJC 3; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994).
Jesus and His Contemporaries: Comparative Studies (AGJU 25; Leiden: Brill, 1995).
Editor, with Stanley E. Porter, The Historical Jesus: A Sheffield Reader (BibSem 33; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995).
Editor, with Stanley E. Porter, The Synoptic Gospels: A Sheffield Reader (BibSem 31; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995).
Editor, with Stanley E. Porter, The Johannine Writings: A Sheffield Reader (BibSem 32; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995).
Editor, with Stanley E. Porter, The Pauline Writings: A Sheffield Reader (BibSem 34; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995).
Life of Jesus Research: An Annotated Bibliography (NTTS 24; Leiden: Brill, 1996).
Jesus in Context: Temple, Purity, and Restoration, with Bruce Chilton (AGJU 39; Leiden: Brill, 1997).
Editor, with Craig C. Broyles, Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah: Studies of an Interpretive Tradition (2 vols., VTSup 70; FIOTL 1; Leiden: Brill, 1997).
Editor, with Peter W. Flint, Eschatology, Messianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature 1; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997).
Editor, with Stanley E. Porter, The Scrolls and the Scriptures: Qumran Fifty Years After (Roehampton Institute London Papers 3; JSPSup 26; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).
Editor, with Stanley E. Porter, New Testament Interpretation and Methods: A Sheffield Reader (BibSem 45; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).
Editor, with Stanley E. Porter, New Testament Backgrounds: A Sheffield Reader (BibSem 43; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).
Editor, with Stanley E. Porter, New Testament Text and Language: A Sheffield Reader (BibSem 44; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).
Editor, with Shemaryahu Talmon, The Quest for Context and Meaning: Studies in Biblical Intertextuality in Honor of James A. Sanders (BIS 28; Leiden: Brill, 1997).
Editor, with James A. Sanders, Early Christian Interpretation of the Scriptures of Israel: Investigations and Proposals (JSNTSup 148; SSEJC 5; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).
Editor, with Bruce Chilton, Authenticating the Words of Jesus (NTTS 28.1; Leiden: Brill, 1998).
Editor, with Bruce Chilton, Authenticating the Activities of Jesus (NTTS 28.2; Leiden: Brill, 1998).
Editor, with James A. Sanders, The Function of Scripture in Early Jewish and Christian Tradition (JSNTSup 154; SSEJC 6; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998).
Editor, with Bruce Chilton, James the Just and Christian Origins (NovTSup 98; Leiden: Brill, 1999).
Editor, The Interpretation of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity: Studies in Language and Tradition (JSPSup 33; SSEJC 7; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000).
Editor, with Stanley E. Porter, Dictionary of New Testament Background (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2000). [winner of the ECPA Gold Medallion]
Mark 8:27-16:20 (WBC 34b; Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001). [winner of the ECPA Silver Medallion]
Editor, with Paul Copan, Who Was Jesus? A Jewish-Christian Dialogue (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001).
Editor, with Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner, The Missing Jesus: Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2002).
The Bible Knowledge Background Commentary: Vol. 1 Matthew-Luke (Colorado Springs: Cook Publications, 2003).
Jesus and the Ossuaries (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2003).
Editor, The Bible Knowledge Background Commentary: Vol. 2 Acts-Philemon (Colorado Springs: Cook Publications, 2004).
Editor, From Prophecy to Testament (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004).
Editor, The Historical Jesus (4 vols., Routledge Reference Library; London: Routledge, 2004).
Editor, Of Scribes and Sages: Studies in Early Jewish Interpretation and Transmission of Scripture (2 vols., LSTS 50-51; SSEJC 9-10; London and New York: T & T Clark, 2004).
Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005).
Editor, with Bruce Chilton, The Missions of James, Peter, and Paul: Tensions in Early Christianity (NovTSup 115; Leiden: Brill, 2005).
Editor, The Bible Knowledge Background Commentary. Volume 3: John's Gospel, Hebrews-Revelation (Colorado Springs: Cook Publications, 2005).
Editor, with John J. Collins, Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006).
Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Have Distorted the Gospels (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2006).
Editor, with William H. Brackney, From Biblical Criticism to Biblical Faith (Macon GA: Mercer University Press, 2007).
Editor, The Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus (New York: Routledge Press, 2008).
Editor, with Emanuel Tov, Exploring the Origins of the Bible: Canon Formation in Historical, Literary, and Theological Perspective (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008).
Jesus, The Last Days, with N. T. Wright (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009).
Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls (Nashville: B&H Publishing) forthcoming.
Matthew (New Cambridge Bible Commentary; Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press) in preparation.
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Faith (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic) in preparation.
Jesus and the Fall of Satan (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans) in preparation.
Pesharim (Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans) in preparation.
Mark 1:1-8:26 (WBC 34a; Nashville: Thomas Nelson) in preparation.