 About the Author
Gary D. Collier
has a passion for helping others encounter Scripture in imaginative,
dynamic, and innovative ways that open the heart of the reader to
the heart of God.
The single-minded goal of his
efforts is to help others
renew their promise to God that his
word will come alive in them through personal and powerful
life-changing experience in Scripture.
Pursuing this passion,
Collier founded and is
the director of
Coffee with Paul©
Ministries and is a faculty member of biblical studies at
Trinity College of
the Bible & Theological Seminary in Newburgh, Indiana. He is an author, editor, lecturer,
radio speaker, and minister. He holds B.A.,
M.Div., and Th.M. degrees in Biblical Literature and Languages and
is currently writing his Ph.D. dissertation in studies on Paul.
He has a special interest in the uses,
adaptations, and applications of Scripture in ancient authors,
including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo of Alexandria, Rabbinic
authors, and others. He taught biblical languages at Fuller Theological
Seminary and the Iliff School of Theology, and biblical languages
and literature at Martin University. He has also served as a minister in New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, California, Colorado,
and Indiana.
He has published numerous books and
articles about reading Scripture and was the founder and co-chairman of the
one-time Seminar for Biblical Hermeneutics at the Christian
Scholar's Conferences held at college campuses around the United
States. He received the Everett Harrison,
Jr. Memorial Scholarship Award as outstanding graduate from
Fuller Theological Seminary, and the coveted Gerald L. & Florence
M. Schlessman Graduate Fellowship for academic achievement for
entering doctoral work. He and his wife, Lanette, live in Cloverdale,
IN.
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