About the Author

Gerald L. Borchert, senior professor at Carson-Newman University, was formerly a Canadian lawyer. After earning a Ph.D. from Princeton, he did post-doctoral work in Jerusalem, Cambridge, Hamburg, Duke, Boston, and San Francisco. He has been dean of two American theological seminaries and has taught in many schools in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. A translator for the New Living Translation, he has written more than 150 articles and more than twenty books. He is a member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, has led more than fifty tours to the Holy Land, and written two study books on that subject.