Jeffrey Bingham Background

Because Dr Bingham’s father worked in the petroleum industry, he spent his early years in a number of foreign countries, ranging from southeast Asia to north Africa. He attended an American high school in Rome, where he was accustomed to running the ancient race course of the Circus Maximus as a part of gym class. His parents eventually settled in Las Cruses, NM, where he got his undergraduate degree at New Mexico State University. He subsequently earned a Th. M. and Ph. D. from Dallas Theological Seminary, where he specialized in church history and eventually served as a professor for a number of years.

He has also served as a vice president at Wheaton College in Illinois. Presently, Dr. Bingham is at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he serves as research professor of historical theology in the School of Theology and holds the Jesse Hendley Chair of Biblical Theology. Dr. Bingham, a world-class Patristics scholar, specializes in historical theology, systematic theology, history of biblical interpretation, Patristic Theology, Second-century Christianity, and the theology and works of Irenaeus and Athenagoras.

Dr. Bingham is the author of Irenaeus’ use of Matthew’s Gospel in Adversus Haereses (Traditio Exegetica Graeca) (Peeters, 1997), Pocket History of the Church (IVP, 2002) and editor or co-editor of several books including The Routledge Companion to Early Christian Thought (Routledge, 2010); Dispensationalism and the History of Redemption: A Developing and Diverse Tradition (Moody, 2015); Eschatology: Biblical, Historical and Practical Approaches (Kregel, 2016); and Intertextuality in the Second Century (Brill, 2016). He has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters in his fields of specialization. In addition to his academic publications, Dr. Bingham serves as the general editor for the Bible in Ancient Christianity (Brill) and as consulting editor of the revised Evangelical Dictionary of Theology.

Dr. Bingham is a member of the American Historical Association, the American Society of Church History, the Evangelical Theological Society, International Society of Patristic Studies, North American Patristic Society, for which he also served as a President (2017-2018), Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, the Society of Biblical Literature, Southwest Seminar on the Development of Early Catholic Christianity, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

He is married to Pamela.

Select Publications:

Irenaeus’ Use of Matthew’s Gospel in Adversus Haereses (Traditio Exegetica Graeca) (Peeters, 1997).
Pocket History of the Church (IVP, 2002)
The Routledge Companion to Early Christian Thought (Routledge, 2010)
Dispensationalism and the History of Redemption: A Developing and Diverse Tradition (Moody, 2015)
Eschatology: Biblical, Historical and Practical Approaches (Kregel, 2016)