About the Authors
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
F. F. Bruce (1910–1990) was a Biblical scholar profoundly influential in the modern evangelical understanding of the Bible. His work New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? is considered a classic in the discipline of Christian apologetics. He was Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester in England. During his distinguished career, he wrote more than forty bestselling commentaries and books, including A Mind for What Matters and Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free. He also served as general editor of The New International Commentary on the New Testament.
Philip W. Comfort, PhD, has studied English Literature, Greek, and New Testament at Ohio State University and the University of South Africa. He has taught these classes at a number of colleges, including Wheaton College, Trinity Episcopal Seminary, Columbia International University, and Coastal Carolina University. He has contributed a number of books to the Tyndale collection, both as author and editor: The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament, The Origin of the Bible, Tyndale Bible Dictionary, Essential Guide to Bible Versions, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts (with D. Barrett), Who’s Who in Christian History, and New Testament Text and Translation Commentary. Philip lives in South Carolina with his wife Georgia. His three children and grandchildren live nearby.
Carl F. H. Henry (1913–2003) was an American evangelical Christian theologian who served as the first editor-in-chief of the magazine Christianity Today, established to serve as a scholarly voice for evangelical Christianity and a challenge to the liberal Christian Century. He is widely recognized as a foremost thinker, educator, author, and theologian. He held a ThD from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and a PhD from Boston University. He was the chairman of the World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin in 1966 and the program chairman for the Jerusalem Conference on Biblical Prophecy in 1970. He was the author of some thirty-five volumes, a number of which have had a decisive influence on the shape of Christianity in America. In addition, he taught and lectured around the world at major universities on every continent.
J. I. Packer, a British-born Canadian Christian theologian, currently serves as the Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. An ordained Anglican minister, he holds a DPhil from Oxford University. Dr. Packer’s many published works include Rediscovering Holiness, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, and the bestselling Knowing God. Dr. Packer served as general editor for the English Standard Version, an evangelical revision of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.