J. Ross Wagner | Associate Professor of New Testament

Associate Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School

J. Ross Wagner is Associate Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School, where he specializes in Paul’s letters and Septuagint studies and seeks to recover theological exegesis through careful study of how scriptural interpretation shaped early Jewish and Christian communities. He is the author or editor of works including Heralds of the Good News: Paul and Isaiah in Concert in the Letter to the Romans, Between Gospel and Election, and Reading the Sealed Book: Old Greek Isaiah and the Problem of Septuagint Hermeneutics. Wagner serves on editorial boards for leading scholarly journals and has held Humboldt Research Fellowships at the University of Göttingen and residencies at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. An Anglican priest, he also participates actively in parish ministry and theological education.