Sean M. McDonough (born in 1964) is an American professor of
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 ...
at
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in
South Hamilton
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,
Massachusetts
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, and Chair of the Biblical Studies Department at
Pacific Theological College
The Pacific Theological College (PTC) is an ecumenical theological college located in Suva, Fiji. Established in 1965, it opened for training in 1966 and was originally designed as the only regional institution to offer degree-level education in th ...
.
Life
Education
McDonough earned a Bachelor of Arts at
Harvard College
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. He also earned a Master of Divinity in 1993 and a Master of Theology in 1994 from the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. From 1997, he holds a Doctor of Philosophy at the
University of St. Andrews
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, with his doctoral dissertation ''YHWH at Patmos Rev. 1:4 in its Hellenistic and early Jewish setting''.
Teaching
From 1997 to 2000 he taught at the Pacific Theological College in
Suva, Fiji
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, where he served as Lecturer in New Testament. Since 2000, he has taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, where he is associate professor of New Testament and the Chair of the Biblical Studies Department.
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1964 births
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary alumni
Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary faculty
Harvard College alumni
Living people