Pierson Parker was professor of New Testament at the General Theological Seminary

General Theological Seminary

The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church is a seminary of the Episcopal Church in the United States and is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York....

 during the 1960s.

Pierson is best known for his work on the origins and priority of the Gospels.

After the revealing of the Secret Mark of Morton Smith

Morton Smith

Morton Smith was an American professor of ancient history at Columbia University. He is best known for his controversial discovery of the Mar Saba letter, a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria containing excerpts from a Secret Gospel of Mark, during a visit to the monastery at Mar Saba in...

, Pierson published a critical response in The New York Times calling the document "an early Christian hoax".

Pierson was also involved in the Today's English Version 1976

Works

Books

• 1955 The Gospel before Mark University of Chicago Press
• 1957 Inherit the promise: six keys to New Testament thought
• 1958 Christ our hope: six clues to New Testament thought

Articles

• 1940 A Proto-Lukan Basis for the Gospel According to the Hebrews
• 1941 The Meaning of 'Son of Man,' "" JBL 60 (1941): 151-57.
• 1956 Two Editions of John JBL, 75 [1956], p. 304
• 1964 In Praise of 1611 Anglican Theological Review 3 (July 1964), pp. 251-60
• 1975 The kinship of John and Acts in Christianity, Judaism and other Greco-Roman cults ed. Jacob Neusner
  Jacob Neusner
  Jacob Neusner is an American academic scholar of Judaism who lives in Rhinebeck, New York.-Biography:Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Neusner was educated at Harvard University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America , the University of Oxford, and Columbia University.Neusner is often celebrated...
  
  , Morton Smith
  Morton Smith
  Morton Smith was an American professor of ancient history at Columbia University. He is best known for his controversial discovery of the Mar Saba letter, a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria containing excerpts from a Secret Gospel of Mark, during a visit to the monastery at Mar Saba in...
  
  
• 1983 The posteriority of Mark in ed. William Reuben Farmer New synoptic studies: the Cambridge Gospel Conference and beyond pp67

Contributions to reference works

• "Crucifixion" in Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible