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Trevor Burke

BURKE - Undergrad
Title: Professor of Bible
Department: Bible
School/Area: Undergraduate
Position: Teaching
Start Date: July 2004
Personal Information:

Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Trevor Burke has taught New Testament in seminaries in Nigeria, Wales and the Fiji Islands. Prior to coming to Moody he was a lecturer in New Testament and Head of the Department of Biblical Studies at Pacific Theological College, Suva, Fiji.

Dr. Burke teaches courses on Greek Grammar, Greek Exegesis, Romans, Pauline Studies and Hermeneutics. He is presently researching and writing a theology of Romans and Paul’s role as missionary, and is a member of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical Studies, the Evangelical Theological Society and the Society of Biblical Literature.

Educational Background:
B.Sc., New University of Ulster, Coleraine
B.D., Queen's University, Belfast
M.Phil., University College of North Wales, Bangor
Ph.D., University of Glasgow, Scotland
Publications:

Books:

  • "Adopted as Sons: The Missing Piece in Pauline Soteriolgy." In Paul as Jew, Greek, and Roman,  Pauline Studies, no. 5,  ed. Stanley E. Porter. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers (2008): forthcoming.
  • "Proclaiming Jesus in Global Mission: A Pauline Perspective." In Proclaiming Jesus: Essays on the Centrality of Christ in the Church in Honor of Joseph M. Stowell, ed. Thomas H. L. Cornman. Chicago: Moody, 2007.
  • Adopted into God's Family: Exploring a Pauline Metaphor. New Studies in Biblical Theology 22. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2006.
  • Family Matters: A Socio-Historical Study of Kinship Metaphors in I Thessalonians. Journal for the Study of the New Testament 247. London: T & T Clark International, 2003.
  • "Paul's Role as 'Father' to his Corinthian 'Children' in Socio-Historical Context (1 Cor. 4:14-21)." Paul and the Corinthians: Studies on a Community in Conflict. Essays in Honour of Margaret Thrall.  Supplements to Novum Testamentum, ed. Trevor J. Burke and J. Keith Elliott. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003.

Articles:

  • Review of The Child-Parent Relationship in the New Testament and its Environment, by Peter Balla. Novum Testamentum (2005).
  • Review of Philo and Paul Among Sophists, by Bruce W. Winter, 2nd ed. Novum Testamentum (2005).
  • Review of The Letter to the Thessalonians, by Gene L. Green. Novum Testamentum (2004).
  • "Family Matters in Thessalonica," Tyndale Bulletin (2001).
  • "Pauline Adoption: A Sociological Approach,"  Evangelical Quarterly (2001).
  • "Pauline Paternity in 1 Thessalonians,"  Tyndale Bulletin (2000).
  • "Adoption and the Spirit in Romans 8," Evangelical Quarterly (1998).
  • "The Characteristics of Paul's Adoptive Sonship (HUIOTHESIA) Motif," Irish Biblical Studies (1995).
  • Review of Constructing Early Christian Families: Family as Social Reality and Metaphor, by Halvor Moxnes. Evangelical Quarterly (1999).
  • Review of Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey, by Craig L. Blomberg. Frontiers: Evangelical Perspectives on Faith and Society (1999).
Professional/Personal Interests:

Outside of the classroom, he has been known to chase any kind of ball that moves, and enjoys tennis, rugby union, bird watching and family holidays. Burke is married to Yvonne, an elementary school teacher. The couple has two sons, Luke and Simeon.