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Allen Callahan joined the Eden faculty in fall 2010 as Visiting Professor of New Testament. He comes to Eden after most recently teaching New Testament at Seminário Teológico Batista de Nordeste in Bahia, Brazil.
Dr. Callahan has also taught biblical languages and literatures, biblical theology, and biblical hermeneutics at Boston College, Andover-Newton Theological School, Holy Cross College, Harvard Divinity School and Macalester College.
"I offer my students no pearls of wisdom," says Dr. Callahan. "A pearl is a thing of great beauty, created when an oyster has struggled with some tiny, coarse irritant lodged deep in its flaccid, erstwhile irenic innards. In the classroom, it is my students who provide the pearls. And I, the irritants."
Dr. Callahan is a language expert, with knowledge of seven ancient dialects, including Aramaic, Coptic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin, in addition to being fluent in five modern languages. He holds a Bachelor’s in Religion from Princeton University and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from Harvard University in the Study of Religion specializing in New Testament and the history and literature of early Christianity.
He is an ordained Baptist minister and is affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention. Dr. Callahan is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Callahan has published more than 40 scholarly articles and translations. He is the author of three books: The Embassy of Onesimus (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997); A Love Supreme: A History of Johannine Tradition (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005); The Talking Book: The Bible and African Americans (New Haven: Yale University, 2006). He is also co-editor and contributor to two volumes of essays: with Richard A. Horsley, and Abraham Smith, Semeia 83/84: Slavery in Text and Interpretation (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1998); and with Anthony Pinn, African Americans and the Story of Nimrod (New York: Palgrave, 2008). He is a featured scholar in the television documentaries From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, The Roman Empire in the First Century, The History of Early Christianity, Peter and Paul: The Christian Revolution, the Discovery Channel’s Who Was Jesus? (Renegade Pictures, 2009), and most recently in the program A Christmas Journey to Freedom broadcast on Day of Discovery.
Dr. Callahan is also a featured commentator in two independently produced documentaries on contemporary American society, A Crisis of Faith and State of the Union.
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phone: 314-918-2581
toll-free: 877-627-5649
fax: 314-918-2580
email: acallahan@eden.edu
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