James D. G. ("Jimmy") Dunn was for many years the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology at the University of Durham. Since his retirement he has been made Emeritus Lightfoot Professor. He is a leading British New Testament scholar broadly in the evangelical tradition. Dunn is especially associated with the New Perspective on Paul, along with Tom Wright and E. P. Sanders. He is credited with coining this phrase during his 1982 Manson Memorial Lecture.

Dunn has an M.A. and B.D. from the University of Glasgow and a Ph.D. and D.D. from the University of Cambridge. For 2002, Dunn was the President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, the leading international body for New Testament study. Only three other British scholars had been made President in the preceding 25 years. It has been said that anyone "who has not engaged with the works of James D. G. Dunn is not really interested in the rigorous study of early Christianity."

In 2005 a festschrift was published dedicated to Dunn, comprising articles by 27 leading New Testament scholars, examining early Christian communities and their beliefs about the Holy Spirit. (G.

Writing

Dunn has written or edited numerous books and papers, including:

• Dunn 1977 Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: Enquiry into the Character of Earliest Christianity. SCM Press ISBN 0334024366
• Dunn 1990 Jesus, Paul, and the Law: Studies in Mark and Galatians. Westminister John Knox Press ISBN 0664250955. Collection of essays written throughout the 1980s, including the historic 1982 lecture "The New Perspective on Paul."
• Duun and A. M. Suggate 1993 The Justice of God: A Fresh Look at the Old Doctrine of Justification by Faith ISBN 0802807976
• Dunn 1997 The Theology of Paul the Apostle Eerdmans ISBN 0802838448
• Dunn (ed.) 2003 The Cambridge Companion to St Paul. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521786940
• Dunn and J. Rogerson (eds.) 2003 Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible Eerdmans ISBN 0802837115
• Dunn 2003 Christianity in the Making Vol. 1 Jesus Remembered Eerdmans ISBN 0802839312
• Dunn 2005 A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed. Baker Academic Press ISBN 0801027101

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