David Edward Aune (born November 8, 1939) is an American

New Testament The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...

scholar. He is the emeritus Walter Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the

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Life

Aune is a member of the

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Education

Aune studied at Wheaton College, Illinois and in 1961 he earned a B.A. In 1963 Auned earned a M.A. granted with high honor in New Testament Language and Literature at the Wheaton Graduate School of Theology with the thesis ''Paul's Exegesis of the Old Testament as Illustrated by His Quotations in Romans 9-11'' under the supervision of A. Berkeley Mickelsen. In 1969 he earned a M.A. in Classical Civilization at the

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. From 1970, Aune holds a Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christian Literature from the University of Chicago with the dissertation ''The cultic setting of realized eschatology in the early Church'' supervised by Robert M. Grant.

Academic work

He taught at Saint Xavier College and

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before taking up an appointment at the University of Notre Dame. On 21 October 2012 Aune was named honorary president for life of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research.

Fellow

Aune is a fellow of the

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(2001) and of the

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Festschrift

In 2006, a ''

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'' was published in his honor. ''The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune'' included contributions from Peder Borgen, Robert M. Grant, and Margaret M. Mitchell.

Works

Aune is the author of numerous books and articles on the New Testament and early Christianity.

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References

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