Benjamin I. Simpson

Dr. Simpson joined the faculty in 2006 as the registrar. He has worked at both the Houston and Washington DC campuses. In 2023 he joined the DTS Atlanta campus where he continues helping external students complete their degrees while positively influencing their ministries. His research interests include Jesus, the Gospels, and hermeneutics. He is married to Amber and they have two children: Madison and Eli.

Benjamin I. Simpson’s Books

Understanding the Gospels: A Guide for Preaching and Teaching
• • • • • • • • • • • • • November 28, 2017

Jesus the God-Man: The Unity and Diversity of the Gospel Portrayals
• June 21, 2016

Recent Research on the Historical Jesus (Recent Research in Biblical Studies)
September 18, 2014

Jesus According to Scripture : Restoring the Portrait from the Gospels
• January 1, 2002

Benjamin I. Simpson’s Contributions

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Finding Opportunities
Dr. Ben Simpson, associate professor of New Testament Studies, highlights how God gives constant and regular…
August 5, 2020

Minding the Gap: Orality, Memory, and the Gospels
How can a believer communicate effectively and retain the attention of a person who does not…
• November 15, 2019

The Followers of Jesus as the ‘Servant’: Luke’s Model from Isaiah for the Disciples in Luke-Acts.
Holly Beers
T & T Clark

Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew
Matthias Konradt
Baylor University Press

A Marginal Jew: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables
John P. Meier
Yale University Press

The Kingdom according to Luke and Acts: A Social, Literary, and Theological Introduction
Karl Allen Kuhn
Baker Academic

Aposynagogos and the Historical Jesus in John: Rethinking the Historicity of the Johannine Expulsion
Jonathan Bernier
Brill

Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows: Capable Women of Purpose and Persistence in Luke’s Gospel
F. Scott Spencer
Eerdmans

The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus
Michael F. Bird
Eerdmans

Earliest Christian History: History, Literature, and Theology. Essays from the Tyndale Fellowship in Honor of Martin Hengel
Michael F. Bird and Jason Maston
Mohr Siebeck

The Life and Witness of Peter
Larry R. Helyer
IVP Academic

The Theological Role of Paradox in the Gospel of Mark
Laura C. Sweat
Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Introduction to Messianic Judaism: Its Ecclesial Context and Biblical Foundations
David Rudolph and Joel Willits
Zondervan

Evangelical Theology: A Biblical and Systematic Introduction
Michael F. Bird
Zondervan

Who Do People Say I Am? Rewriting Gospel in Emerging Christianity
Vernon K. Robbins
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Jesus against the Scribal Elite: The Origins of the Conflict
Chris Keith
Baker Academic

Love in the Gospel of John
Francis J. Moloney
Baker Academic

Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas’s Familiarity with the Synoptics
Mark Goodacre
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Run to Win the Prize: Perseverance in the New Testament
Thomas R. Schreiner
Crossway

Understanding Biblical Theology: A Comparison of Theory and Practice
Edward W. Klink III and Darian R. Lockett
Zondervan

Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity
Chris Keith and Anthony Le Donne, editors
Bloomsbury T&T Clark

The Historiographical Jesus: Memory, Typology, and the Son of David
Anthony Le Donne
Baylor University Press

The Ransom Logion in Mark and Matthew
J. Christopher Edwards
Mohr Siebeck

Jesus Tradition in the Apostolic Fathers: Their Explicit Appeals to the Words of Jesus in Light of Orality Studies
Stephen E. Young
Coronet Books

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