Bruce W. Winter

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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),{{cite web|url=http://www.tyndalehouse.com//GrecoRoman.htm |title=Research Fellows : Dr. Bruce Winter |publisher=Tyndalehouse.com |access-date=2015-08-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813141404/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/ |archive-date=2015-08-13 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.qtc.edu.au/groups/ |title=Groups |publisher=Qtc.edu.au |date=2015-03-23 |access-date=2015-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185658/http://www.qtc.edu.au/groups/ |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}

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.[http://www.qtc.edu.au/content/files/CV%20Bruce%20Winter%202007.doc] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719071201/http://www.qtc.edu.au/content/files/CV%20Bruce%20Winter%202007.doc|date=July 19, 2008}}

Early life and education

Winter completed a B.A. in History, Political Science and Biblical Studies at the University of Queensland.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

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.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

Career

Winter later applied for the position of warden at Tyndale House, Cambridge, UK, and was appointed to the position in August 1987.The New Testament in its First Century Setting: Essays on Context and Background in Honour of B. W. Winter on his 65th Birthday (ed. P. J. Williams, et al.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004), x-xiii. He remained warden until the end of 2006, after which he took up the position of principal of the Queensland Theological College, where he remained until December 2011.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

Winter is a former editor of the Tyndale Bulletin. In 2004, a festschrift was published in his honour. The book, The New Testament in Its First Century Setting: Essays on Context and Background in Honour of B. W. Winter on His 65th Birthday, included contributions from I. Howard Marshall, D. A. Carson and Paul Barnett.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

Works

=Thesis=

{{cite thesis|author1-last=Winter |author1-first=Bruce W. |title=Philo and Paul among the Sophists: A Hellenistic and Jewish Christian Response |type=Ph.D. }}

=Books=

{{cite book|author1-last=Winter |author1-first=Bruce W. |author1-mask=3 |title=Seek the Welfare of the City: Christians as Benefactors and Citizens |series=First-Century Christians in the Graeco-Roman World |location=Grand Rapids, MI & Carlisle |publisher=Eerdmans & Paternoster |date=1994 |isbn= 9780802840912 |oclc=31434167 }}
{{cite book|author1-last=Winter |author1-first=Bruce W. |author1-mask=3 |title=Paul and Philo Among the Sophists |series=Society for New Testament Studies - Monograph series |volume=96 |edition=1st |location=Cambridge, UK |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1997 |isbn=9780521591089 |oclc=489872005 }} - a development of his Ph.D. thesis
{{cite book|author1-last=Winter |author1-first=Bruce W. |author1-mask=3 |title=After Paul Left Corinth: The Influence of Secular Ethics and Social Change |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=2001 |isbn=9780802848987 |oclc=45247326 }}
{{cite book|author1-last=Winter |author1-first=Bruce W. |author1-mask=3 |title=Paul and Philo Among the Sophists: Alexandrian and Corinthian Responses to a Julio-Claudian Movement |edition=2nd |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=2002 }} - a revision of his 1997 work
{{cite book|author1-last=Winter |author1-first=Bruce W. |author1-mask=3 |title=Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women and the Pauline Communities |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=2002 |isbn=9780802849717 |oclc=52431088 }}
{{cite book|author1-last=Winter |author1-first=Bruce W. |author1-mask=3 |title=Divine honours for the Caesars : the first Christians' responses |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=2015 |isbn=9780802872579 |oclc=909883424 }}

=As editor=

{{cite book|editor1-last=Winter |editor1-first=Bruce W. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Clarke |editor2-first=Andrew D. |editor2-link=Andrew D. Clarke |title=One God, one Lord: Christianity in a world of religious pluralism |series=Tyndale House Studies |location=Exeter, UK & Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Paternoster Press & Baker Book House |date=1992 |isbn=9780951835623 |oclc=25509184 }}
{{cite book|editor1-last=Winter |editor1-first=Bruce W. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Clarke |editor2-first=Andrew D. |editor2-link=Andrew D. Clarke |title=The Book of Acts in its ancient literary setting |series=Book of Acts in its first century setting |volume=1 |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=1993 |isbn=9780853645634 |oclc=29743560 }}

=Articles and chapters=

{{cite book|author1-last=Winter |author1-first=Bruce W. |author1-mask=3 |chapter=In public and private: early Christians and religious pluralism |editor1-last=Winter |editor1-first=Bruce W. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Clarke |editor2-first=Andrew D. |editor2-link=Andrew D. Clarke |title=One God, one Lord: Christianity in a world of religious pluralism |series=Tyndale House Studies |location=Exeter, UK & Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Paternoster Press & Baker Book House |date=1992 |isbn=9780951835623 |oclc=25509184 }}
{{cite book|author1-last=Winter |author1-first=Bruce W. |author1-mask=3 |chapter=Official proceedings and the forensic speeches in Acts 24-26 |editor1-last=Winter |editor1-first=Bruce W. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Clarke |editor2-first=Andrew D. |editor2-link=Andrew D. Clarke |title=The Book of Acts in its ancient literary setting |series=Book of Acts in its first century setting |volume=1 |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=1993 |isbn=9780853645634 |oclc=29743560 }}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20090223103531/http://qtc.edu.au/home Queensland Theological College]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20150813141404/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/ Tyndale House, Cambridge]
[http://www.moore.edu.au/ Moore Theological College]

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