Bruce W. Winter
Australian academic
Bruce William Winter (born 2 July 1939) is an Australian conservative evangelical New Testament scholar and director of the Institute for Early Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World. Winter was warden of Tyndale House at the University of Cambridge (1987–2006), and is currently lecturing part-time in the area of New Testament at Queensland Theological College in Australia], the training arm of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in the state of Queensland.
Winter's academic work has focused on the 1st-century context of the Christian religion in the Roman Empire, about which he has written a number of books and numerous journal articles. He is a member of the Tyndale Fellowship, the Society of Biblical Literature, the British Epigraphic Society and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.
Early life and education
Winter completed a B.A. in History, Political Science and Biblical Studies at the University of Queensland.
After working for some time in the Australian Public Service, during which time he received a Diploma in Public Administration, he commenced training for ordination at Moore Theological College in Sydney. In 1973, he left Australia and began parish ministry at the Anglican Saint George's Church, Singapore. After three years, he became the warden of St Peter's Hall, part of Trinity Theological College, Singapore. In the years that followed, Winter gained a M.Th. from South East Asia Graduate School of Theology, followed by his Ph.D. entitled "Philo and Paul among the Sophists: A Hellenistic and Jewish Christian Response", through Macquarie University.
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