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Craig Keener

Craig Keener

Asbury Theological Seminary
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Before coming to Asbury in July 2011, Dr. Keener was a professor of New Testament at Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University, where he taught for 15 years; before that time he was a professor at Hood Theological Seminary.

Craig has authored 22 books, five of which have won book awards in Christianity Today. His IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (1993), now in its 2nd revised edition (2014), has sold more than half a million copies (including editions in several languages, including more than fifty thousand copies in Korean). The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, for which Craig authored most of the New Testament notes (and which John Walton and Craig edited), won Bible of the Year in the 2017 Christian Book Awards, and also won Book of the Year in the Religion: Christianity category of the International Book Awards.

He has written for various journals, both academic (e.g., Journal for the Study of the New Testament; Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus; Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism; Bulletin for Biblical Research; A.M.E. Church Review) and popular (e.g., Christianity Today; Charisma; Christian History; regularly, A.M.E. Zion Missionary Seer; Christian Trends). He has published more than 70 academic articles and more than 170 popular ones. He wrote “2 Corinthians” in The New Interpreter’s Bible One Volume Commentary, the article on the Holy Spirit for The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology, and has published other popular materials with Abingdon, InterVarsity, and Zondervan. He is co-editor of the New Covenant Commentary Series and of Global Voices: Reading the Bible in the Majority World, is a consulting editor for the Africa Study Bible, and is the New Testament editor for The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible (Zondervan, 2016). He is the editor of The Bulletin for Biblical Research (2015-2019) and recently served as program chair for the Institute for Biblical Research (2010-12).

Craig is married to Médine Moussounga Keener, who holds a Ph.D. from University of Paris 7. She was a refugee for 18 months in her nation of Congo (their story together appears in the book Impossible Love, Chosen Books, 2016), and together Craig and Médine work for ethnic reconciliation in the U.S. and Africa. Craig was ordained in an African-American denomination in 1991 and for roughly a decade before moving to Wilmore was one of the associate ministers in an African-American megachurch in Philadelphia. In recent years he has taught in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and in connection with various denominations.

TO READ MORE ABOUT CRAIG & MÉLINE'S WORK ON FORGIVENESS AND RECONCILIATION CLICK HERE.

View Dr. Keener’s personal website at www.craigkeener.com.

Education
  • Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) - Duke University
  • Master of Divinity (MDiv) - Assemblies of God Theological Seminary
  • Master of Arts (MA) - Assemblies of God Theological Seminary
  • Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Central Bible College

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Acts: An Exegetical Commentary: 3:1-14:28
Baker Academic

Acts: An Exegetical Commentary: 3:1-14:28

Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for his meticulous and comprehensive research. This commentary on Acts, his magnum opus, may be the largest and...

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Galatians: A Commentary
Baker Academic

Galatians: A Commentary

Leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener is widely respected for his thorough research, sound judgments, and knowledge of ancient sources. His four-volume magnum opus on...

Galatians: A Commentary
John: Volume 2A (Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary)
Zondervan Academic

John: Volume 2A (Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary)

An image rich, passage-by-passage commentary that integrates relevant historical and cultural insights, providing a deeper dimension of perspective to the words of the New...

John: Volume 2A (Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary)
The Mind of the Spirit: Paul's Approach to Transformed Thinking
Baker Academic

The Mind of the Spirit: Paul's Approach to Transformed Thinking

Leading Scholar Explores Paul's Teaching on the MindThis major work by a leading New Testament scholar explores an important but neglected area of Pauline theology,...

The Mind of the Spirit: Paul's Approach to Transformed Thinking
Biographies and Jesus: What Does It Mean for the Gospels to be Biographies?
Eme, Press

Biographies and Jesus: What Does It Mean for the Gospels to be Biographies?

This work is a careful and critical study of the biographical information about Jesus of Nazareth.The results of this work must be taken into account in future research into...

Biographies and Jesus: What Does It Mean for the Gospels to be Biographies?
Interpretation Biblique (Biblical Interpretation)
Impact Academia

Interpretation Biblique (Biblical Interpretation)

Au fil de l'histoire, plusieurs grands mouvements de reveil ont vu le jour lorsque les gens sont revenus a la Bible, devenant plus attentifs au message de Dieu pour...

Interpretation Biblique (Biblical Interpretation)