Arthur J. Dewey is an American teacher, writer, translator and commentator with particular distinction as a

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scholar and specialist on the

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. He is a professor of Theology in the University Scholars honors department at

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, where he began teaching in 1980. Dewey is co-founder of the Healing Deadly Memories Program, which addresses the "question of

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in the

. He has also been involved with the controversial

Jesus Seminar The Jesus Seminar was a group of about 50 biblical criticism scholars and 100 laymen founded in 1985 by Robert Funk that originated under the auspices of the Westar Institute.''Making Sense of the New Testament'' by Craig Blomberg (Mar 1, 200 ...

, a group of academics dedicated to researching the factual

Jesus Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the Jesus in Chris ...

Education

Dewey holds an A.B. from

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, an M.Div. from the

Weston Jesuit School of Theology The Gloria L. and Charles I. Clough School of Theology and Ministry (CSTM) is a Jesuit school of graduate theology at Boston College. It is an ecclesiastical faculty of theology that trains men and women, both lay and religious, for scholarship ...

, and a Th.D. from

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Selected works

Thesis

Books

* * * - general publication of his Ph.D. thesis * * * *

References

American theologians Living people Harvard Divinity School alumni American biblical scholars New Testament scholars Xavier University faculty Boston College School of Theology and Ministry alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the Jesus Seminar {{US-theologian-stub