School of Theology

B. J. Oropeza, Ph.D., is Professor in Biblical Studies in the School of Theology. Among many publications are his three volume book series subtitled, Apostasy in the New Testament Communities (2011-12), and Jesus and Paul: Global Perspective in Honor of James D. G. Dunn (2009). He was also a consulting translator for the Common English Bible, and contributed articles to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology, and The Wesleyan Study Bible. He is founder and chair of the Intertextuality in the New Testament Consultation of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), and a member of the Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity series, which specializes in the socio-rhetorical method of biblical interpretation. Oropeza specializes in New Testament, Pauline studies, the Corinthian Correspondence, Intertextual studies, and superheroes as the editor of The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Popular Culture (2005).