Jonathan T. Pennington is currently Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky (USA).

He earned a B.A. in History as well as a Teaching Certificate from Northern Illinois University. He received the Master of Divinity degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Chicago), where he also taught Greek for two years as a NT Fellow. During his time at TEDS he also served for five years as the Associate Pastor at the Evangelical Free Church of Mt. Morris in northern Illinois.

He holds the PhD in New Testament Studies from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland (in St. Mary’s College), where he wrote a thesis entitled “Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew” under the supervision of Professors Richard Bauckham and Philip Esler. He attended St. Andrews as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar and while there he also served as a lecturer in Greek. Dr. Pennington is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Tyndale Fellowship (Cambridge), the Institute for Biblical Research, and the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies. He has published a variety of articles, reviews, and Greek and Hebrew language tools and the books, Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew (Brill), now also in paperback Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew, and Cosmology and New Testament Theology (T&T Clark). He is currently working on a book for Baker Academic entitled, The Gospels as Holy Scripture: A Guide to Reading the Gospels Wisely. He is also working on the revised Pillar Commentary on Matthew (PNTC; Eerdmans). For fuller information see the Publications and Research page.

For information on classes taught, course materials, and lecture samples, see the Teaching page.