Chair of the Academic Advisory Board
Dr Paul Trebilco is Professor of New Testament and the Head of the Theology Programme at Otago University. He studied Chemistry at the University of Canterbury, and then did a Bachelor of Divinity at Otago before completing his PhD in the New Testament in 1987 at the University of Durham. He has published work on the Jewish and Greco-Roman backgrounds to the New Testament, the Acts of the Apostles, the apostle Paul, early Christians in Ephesus, the relationship of Scripture and Church tradition, and the Self-designations used by the earliest Christians in the New Testament. From 2013–2017, he was the General Editor of the Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, published by Cambridge University Press. In 2017, Paul was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
