John Barclay

Professor of Divinity | University of Durham

John Barclay is Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham where he teaches New Testament having previously been on the faculty of the University of Glasgow for many years. His research encompasses a wide-range of topics in New Testament exegesis, biblical theology and the history of early Christianity including its social history and relation to contemporary Judaism. He is currently serving as the President of the British New Testament Society. Among his recent publications are Paul and the Gift (2015), Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews (2011), and Against Apion: Flavius Josephus Translation and Commentary (2007).