Dr. R. Alan Culpepper, founding dean of McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University, will deliver the inaugural Ray Frank Robbins Lecture in Religion at 色虎视频 Thursday, March 27.
He will speak at 10 a.m. in Reid Chapel. The program is open to the public free.
Culpepper is a New Testament scholar who taught at Baylor University prior to becoming dean at McAfee. He is New Testament editor for the Smyth and Helwys Bible Commentary and for the Biblical Interpretation Series published by E.J. Brill, and is on the editorial board for the Library of New Testament Studies.
Culpepper has written nine books including Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel and John the Son of Zebedee.听
The late Ray Frank Robbins was also a New Testament scholar who taught at 色虎视频 in the l940s and 麓50s and later at New Orleans Baptist Seminary and Mississippi College. He also served churches as an interim pastor during a career that spanned 50 years. Following his death in 2003, his family established the Ray Frank Robbins Lectureship at 色虎视频.