David A. deSilva
Trustees' Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek, Ashland Theological Seminary
BA (Princeton University), MDiv (Princeton Theological), PhD (Emory University)
David
A. deSilva serves as Trustees’ Distinguished Professor of New Testament and
Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary, where he has taught since 1995. He is
the author of over thirty books, including An Introduction to the New
Testament (rev. ed., IVP, 2018), Introducing the Apocrypha (rev.
ed., Baker Academic, 2018), Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity (rev.
ed., IVP, 2022), Discovering Revelation (Eerdmans, 2021), and
commentaries on Galatians, Ephesians, and Hebrews. He is ordained in the Global
Methodist Church and has served as an organist and choir director at churches
of various denominations since 1984. He is married to Donna Jean, with whom he
shares three adult sons.