Greg Carey

Greg Carey has taught at Lancaster Seminary since 1999, having previously taught at Rhodes College and Winthrop University. His publications include numerous studies on the book of Revelation and ancient apocalyptic literature, rhetorical analysis of the New Testament, and investigations of early Christian self-definition. He is the author or co-editor of six books, including The Gospel According to Luke: All Flesh Shall See God's Salvation, Soundings in Cultural Criticism (co-edited with Francisco Lozada Jr.), and  Sinners: Jesus and His Earliest Followers. 

 

Courses in New Testament aim to prepare students as effective public interpreters of Scripture. Students engage Scripture not only in its ancient Mediterranean contexts but also as living documents in contemporary and global conversations.

Greg blogs regularly for the Huffington Post religion section and is a contributing editor to the Odyssey Networks' new lectionary resource, ON Scripture. Greg serves as co-chair of the Rhetoric and the New Testament Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, and he has appeared in documentaries on the BBC, Discovery Channel, and National Geographic Channel, and most recently the 2011 BBC One documentary, "The Story of Jesus."  

An Alabama native, Greg is a graduate of Rhodes College and Vanderbilt University (PhD, 1996). Greg is an active layperson in the United Church of Christ, who serves as Scholar in Residence at Lancaster's Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity. Greg frequently speaks in churches and denominational gatherings, including many invitations to address the Bible and sexual ethics.

Jesus and the Gospels
Paul and the Early Church
Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
Parables of Jesus
Luke and Acts
Romans
Apocalyptic Literature

The Book of Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature
The Art of Teaching
Early Christian Social Practices
Literary and Rhetorical Interpretations of
the Bible
The Parables of Jesus

The Gospel According to Luke: All Flesh Shall See God's Salvation (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Phoenix, 2012).Soundings in Cultural Criticism: Perspectives and Methods in Culture, Power, and Identity in the New Testament (co-edited with Francisco Lozada Jr.; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013).

 

"ApocalypticLiterature," Oxford Bibliographies Online
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)

Sinners: Jesus and His Earliest Followers (Waco:Baylor University Press,  2009)

UltimateThings: An Introduction to Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature (St. Louis:Chalice Press, 2005)

Visionand Persuasion: Rhetorical Dimensions of Apocalyptic Discourse
Co-editor with L. Gregory Bloomquist. (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1999)

ElusiveApocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation to JohnStudies in American Biblical Hermeneutics 15. (Macon, GA: MercerUniversity Press, 1999)

Parables of Jesus
Early Christians among Their Neighbors
The Book of Revelation
The Bible and Sexuality