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Nicholas Perrin
Associate Professor of New Testament
On staff since 2005

Office: BGC 229
Phone: (630) 752-5933

Nicholas.Perrin@wheaton.edu

Education

Ph.D., Marquette University, 2001

Dissertation Title: “Thomas and Tatian: The Relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron”

M.Div., Covenant Theological Seminary, 1994

B.A., The Johns Hopkins University , 1986
 
Professional and Personal Interests
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, says Holy Writ; this fillial fear is, at bottom, fear of self. In the intellectual sphere, we might call it attention freed from every inferior preoccupation, and fidelity perpetually alive to the danger of falling away. An intellectual must always be ready to think, that is, to take in a part of the truth conveyed to him by the universe and prepared for him at such and such a turning point, by Providence. The spirit passes and returns not. Happy the man who holds himself ready not to miss, nay rather to bring about and to utilize, the miraculous encounter!
- A.G. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Courses Taught

New Testament Criticism (BITH 452/543)
Biblical Theology (BITH 469/552)
New Testament Exegesis: Luke and Mark (BITH 646)
Life and Teachings of Jesus (BITH 469/547)
Jewish Backgrounds (BITH 552)

Membership in Professional Societies

Society of Biblical Literature

Research

  • Gospel of Thomas
  • historical Jesus
  • Paul and Jewish self-definition
  • Gospels

Publications and Presentations

Lost in Transmission: What We Can Know about the Words of Jesus (Nashville: Thomas Nelson: 2007)

Thomas: The Other Gospel (London, SPCK; Louisville, KY: Westminister John Knox: 2007).

The Judas Gospel (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2006)

Questioning Q (Mark Goodacre and Nicholas Perrin, eds.; Downers Grove , Ill. : InterVarsity; London : SPCK, 2004).

Thomas and Tatian: The Relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron (Academia Biblica 5; Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature; Leiden : Brill, 2002).

Articles

“The Aramaic Origins of the Gospel of Thomas – Revisited,” in Das Thomasevangelium: Entstehung -- Rezeption -- Theologie (J. Frey, J. Schröter, E.E. Popkes eds.; BZNW 157; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), 50-59.

“Eschatological Aspects of the Sinai Experience in Patristic Interpretation,” in Israel in the Wilderness: Interpretations of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions ( K. E. Pomykala, ed.; Themes in Biblical Narrative 10; Leiden: Brill, 2008), 173-82.

“Irenaeus and Lyotard against Heresies, Ancient and Modern,” in Ancient Faith for the Church’s Future (J. Greenman and M. Husbands, ed.; Downers Grove , Ill. : InterVarsity Press, 2008), 126-40.

“The (Surprisingly Messy) Process That Brought Us Our New Testament,” in Discipleship Journal 163 (2008), 46-53.

“No Other Gospel,” in Christian History and Biography 96 (2007), 27-30.

Papers

“What Can We Really Know about the Historical Jesus?” Public Lecture at the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. April 3, 2008.

“ Did Jesus Describe His Death as a Covenant in the Last Supper? ” ETS Annual Meeting, San Diego , Calif. , November 16, 2007.

“‘Angered’ or ‘Moved’? Mark 1:41 in Light of Mark’s Exodus Motif,” SBL/AAR Annual Meeting, San Diego, Calif., November 18, 2007.