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Stephen Wunrow

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Stephen Wunrow, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor of New Testament

Education

Wheaton College
Ph.D., 2023

Wheaton College
M.A., 2017

Union University
B.A., 2015

Biography

Stephen grew up in west Tennessee as the second of ten children. During high school, he taught himself some Hebrew and decided that he should go into biblical studies. He earned a BA in biblical languages from Union University in Jackson, TN, where he met his wife. In 2015, they got married and moved to the Chicago area. Stephen graduated with his MA in biblical exegesis from Wheaton College in 2017, and his PhD in New Testament from Wheaton College in 2023. Stephen and his wife enjoy board games, watching old movies, riding and racing their bicycles, and playing with their cat.

Publications

  • Heavenly Space in Hebrews and Its Jewish and Christian Environment: Passing through the Heavens, LNTS 698 (London: T&T Clark, 2025).
  • Associate editor, A Scripture Index to Rabbinic Literature (Peabody, Hendrickson, 2021)
  • “Paul among the Travelers into Heaven: 2 Corinthians 12:1–4 and Other Early Jewish and Christian Ascent Texts,” Biblical Research 67 (2022): 33–58
  • “Senses of οὐρανός, Hebrews 12.25–29, and the Destiny of the Cosmos,” NTS (forthcoming).
  • “‘About Whom Is Our Discourse’: New Data on λόγος in Hebrews 4:13,” CBQ (forthcoming).
  • “Defilement and Cleansing in Heaven: A Proposal for Revelation 11:1–2,” NovT (forthcoming).

Presentations

(2023) “Senses of οὐρανός, Hebrews 12:25–29, and the Destiny of the Cosmos”

(2023) “Senses of οὐρανός, Hebrews 12:25–29, and the Destiny of the Cosmos”

(2022) “Use of the Article on Nouns in 1 John”

(2021) “At Home with the Lord: Jesus’ Location and the Intermediate State”

Semifinalist presentation at the Midwest Evangelical Theological Society February 2016

  • A case study on theological interpretation of Scripture based on 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18
  • Research presented at the Wheaton College Graduate Interdisciplinary Poster Session

Research presented at the Union University Scholarship Symposium

Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture October 2011

  • Panel discussion defining wisdom at Baylor’s 2011 conference “Educating for Wisdom in the 21st Century”

Languages

  • Proficient in Koine Greek (Book studies: 1 Peter, Ephesians, Revelation, Mark, Galatians, 1 Thessalonians, Hebrews)
  • Proficient in Ancient Hebrew (Book studies: Judges, Ruth, Job, Amos, some Psalms
  • German for reading
  • French for reading
  •  Limited reading knowledge of Akkadian (Sennacherib’s campaigns, Hammurabi’s Code, and Mari letters
  • Limited reading knowledge of Aramaic

Professional Societies

  • Evangelical Theological Society
  • Society of Biblical Literature

Reasearch Interests

  • Hebrews
  • Revelation
  • Heavenly space
  • Ascent to heaven
  • Pseudepigrapha

Courses Taught

  • NT Literature
  • Revelation
  • Tolkien and NT