Jonathan T. Pennington is currently Assistant 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. He is currently working on a number of projects including essays on the use of Daniel in Matthew, the Lord’s Supper in the Synoptics, the Theology of Work, and papers on eschatology in counseling and virtue ethics in the Sermon on the Mount. Recently he has completed a devotional commentary on Matthew, and two major volumes, Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew
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