Biography of luke timothy johnson

New Testament scholar

Luke Timothy Johnson (born November 20, 1943) is an American CatholicNew Testament scholar and historian of early Christianity.

He is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theology and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.

Johnson's research interests encompass the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts of early Christianity (particularly moral discourse), Luke-Acts, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Epistle of James.

Early life

A native of Park Falls, Wisconsin, Johnson was educated in public and parochial schools.

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A Benedictine monk and priest at St. Joseph Abbey, St. Benedict, Louisiana from 1963 to 1972, he received a B.A. in Philosophy from Notre Dame Seminary in 1966, a M.Div. in Theology from Saint Meinrad School of Theology in 1970, an M.A.

in Religious Studies from Indiana University Bloomington, and a Ph.D. in New Testament fro