About Michael W. Holmes
Michael W. Holmes was an American biblical scholar.
Michael W. Holmes is the former Chair of the Department of Biblical and Theological Studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota and has taught at Bethel since 1982.
Life Holmes received a BA in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1973), an MA in New Testament from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (1976), and a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary (1984). He did his PhD work under Bruce Metzger, who was widely considered to be one of the most influential New Testament scholars of the 20th century. Holmes' primary research areas are in New Testament textual criticism and the Apostolic Fathers. The NRSVue project was announced in 2017, and the NRSVue was published in 2021 (digital)/2022 (print).
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Michael W. Holmes was born in California.
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Michael W. Holmes was a biblical scholar.
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