Dr. George Howard Guthrie (b. July 24, 1959 in Memphis, TN) is the Benjamin W. Perry Professor of Bible at Union University

Union University

Union University is a private, evangelical Christian, liberal arts university located in Jackson, Tennessee, with additional campuses in Germantown, Tennessee, and Hendersonville, Tennessee...

 in Jackson, Tennessee

Jackson, Tennessee

Jackson is a city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States. The total population was 65,211 at the 2010 census. Jackson is the primary city of the Jackson, Tennessee metropolitan area, which is included in the Jackson-Humboldt, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area...

. Guthrie holds a Ph.D. in New Testament Studies and is considered to be one of the premier authorities in the United States on the Book of Hebrews in the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

.http://www.uu.edu/academics/provost/stories/profile-guthrie.htm. He has authored numerous articles and eight books.

Education

• Ph.D - Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
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• Th.M - Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
  Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
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• M.Div - Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is a private, non-profit institution of higher education, associated with the Southern Baptist Convention...
  
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• Union University
  Union University
  Union University is a private, evangelical Christian, liberal arts university located in Jackson, Tennessee, with additional campuses in Germantown, Tennessee, and Hendersonville, Tennessee...
  
  

Works

• "Read the Bible for Life: Your Guide to Understanding & Living God's Word (Paperback), Broadman & Holman (January 1, 2011).
• Contributor to section on Hebrews in Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Hardcover), Baker Academic (November 1, 2007), ISBN 0801026938, ISBN 978-0801026935.
• section on Hebrews for the Zondervan
  Zondervan
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  Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary. This book was awarded the Evangelical Christian Publisher’s Association Gold Medallion for Reference Works and Commentaries.
• The Structure of Hebrews: A Textlinguistic Analysis, (Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 73. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994); republished by Baker Books in 1998.
• Biblical Greek Exegesis (Co-author J. Scott Duvall, Zondervan).
• NIV Application Commentary: Hebrews
• Hebrews: NIV Application Commentary, Zondervan Publishing House (Dec. 1998).
• The Holman Guide to Interpreting the Bible (Co-authored with David S. Dockery), Zondervan Publishing House (May 2004).

Translation Projects

• The New Living Translation
• consultant to the Holman Christian Standard Bible, New Century Version and the English Standard Version.

External links

• George H. Guthrie's Vita