Description: A leading New Testament scholar invites readers to linger in the Book of Romans, staying long enough to see how it reframes our tidy categories and dramatically enlarges our sense of the gospel.
Brief description: Beverly Roberts Gaventa (PhD, Duke University) is Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She is also Emerita Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. Gaventa is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Our Mother Saint Paul, Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus, and commentaries on 1 and 2 Thessalonians and Acts. She received the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies in 2020 for her long and distinguished contribution to New Testament scholarship, to the discipline and academy through a range of positions of responsibility, and for her mentoring of younger scholars.