N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird Authors of The in Its World

N.T. Wright is the Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is the award-winning author of over eighty books and hundreds of articles, including After You Believe, Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, The Challenge of Jesus, and The Meaning of Jesus (coauthored with Marcus Borg).

Wright has been called the most prolific biblical scholar in a generation, perhaps the most important apologist for the Christian faith since C. S. Lewis. He has written the most extensive series of popular commentaries on the New Testament since William Barclay.

Wright is highly regarded in academic and theological circles for his writing, particularly his series “Christian Origins and the Question of God,” published over four volumes with two more planned. The third volume, The Resurrection of the Son of God, is considered by many pastors and theologians to be a seminal Christian work on the resurrection of the . The recently released fourth volume, Paul and the Faithfulness of God, is hailed as Wright's magnum opus.

N. T Wright received his BA, MA, DPhil, and DD from the University of Oxford. He taught New Testament at Cambridge, McGill, and Oxford (1978-1993). Between 1994 and 2010, he was Dean of Lichfield, then Canon of Westminster, then Bishop of Durham (Church of England). In 2010, he took his current post at St. Andrews and has been there ever since. In 2014, Wright received the Burkitt Medal from the British Academy for special service to New Testament scholarship. He enjoys writing, lecturing, music, mentoring students, and an occasional round of golf. He delights in spending time with his family amid a busy schedule of writing and traveling. Facebook: OfficialNTWright

Michael F. Bird is a leading academic on New Testament studies and Christian . He is Academic Dean and Lecturer in Theology and New Testament at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Michael Bird (PhD University of Queensland) is previously served at Brisbane School of Theology in Australia and Highland Theological College in Scotland.

An industrious researcher, Michael has written and edited more than thirty books in the fields of Septuagint, the Historical Jesus, the , St. Paul, the Apostolic Fathers, Biblical Theology, and Systematic Theology. His popular text book Evangelical Theology is an attempt to develop a truly -based theology that promotes the advance of the gospel in Christian life and thought. He is the co-editor of the New Covenant Commentary Series and an associate editor for Zondervan’s The Story of God Bible Commentary. His volume The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus won Christianity Today’s Best Book of the year in for 2015. He often speaks at conferences in Australia, the UK, and USA. Michael is Anglican priest, he is married to Naomi and they have four children. He also runs a popular blog called Euangelion. Twitter: @mbird12. YouTube: Channel.

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