Professor Peabody has been teaching at Nebraska Wesleyan University since 1984, After writing an Honors Dissertation entitled The Redactional Features of the Author of Mark: A Method Focusing on Recurrent Phraseology and its Application, he received a Ph.D. in Religion from Southern Methodist University (1983). Dr. Peabody also received his M. Th. from the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University (1971) as well as a B.A. in Social Science (Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology) from the Dedman College of S. M. U. (1968).
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Professor Peabody's primary teaching area and research specialty is Biblical Languages and Literature, but he also teaches courses in Historical Theology, Understanding Religion: Jews and Christians, and a Liberal Arts Seminar titled "Views of the Ancient World with Modern Technology." Since the inception of the Wesleyan Live series of teleconferencing courses, Professor Peabody has also frequently co-taught one of these distance education opportunities for pastors and interested lay people across the state of Nebraska. He was awarded the Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for 1990-1991.
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Professor Peabody is the author of Mark as Composer (Mercer University Press, 1987), co-author and co-editor of Beyond the Q Impasse: Luke's Use of Matthew (Trinity Press International, 1996) and the lead author and editor of One Gospel from Two. Mark's Use of Matthew and Luke (Trinity Press International, 2002). In collaboration with Professor Thomas R. W. Longstaff of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, Professor Peabody has also published A Synopsis of Mark with its parallels in Mt and Lk on CD-ROM (Distributed by the authors, 2002). This new electronic, color-coded synopsis provides illustrative and supporting evidence for some of the arguments made in One Gospel from Two. Peabody's monograph, Mark as Composer, inaugurated the New Gospel Studies Series (Mercer University Press, 1987-date). He served as Associate Series Editor from 1987 to 2000, when he assumed the duties of Series Editor, following the death of the first Series Editor, William R. Farmer, on 31 December 2000.
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Commissioned contributions by Peabody appear in New Testament: History of Interpretation (Abingdon, 2004), the Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (Abingdon, 1999), the Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters (InterVarsity, 1998) and The International Bible Commentary (Liturgical Press, 1998). His contribution to the IBC has also appeared in Spanish translation in the Comentario internacional de la Biblia (Verbo Divino, 1998), in a revised Dutch edition in the Internationaal Commentaar op de Bijbel (J. H. Kok, 2001), in a Polish edition in Miedzynarodowy komentarz do Pisma Swietego: Komentarz katolicki i ekumeniczny na XXI wiek (Warschau: Verbinum Wydawnictwo Ksiezy Werbistow, 2000) and in another English edition, especially prepared for readers in India (Bangalore: Theological Publications in India, 2004). Professor Peabody has contributed to seven other volumes of essays relating to Biblical study, the Perkins School of Theology Journal, the Journal of Biblical Literature and the electronic Review of Biblical Literature. Along with Allan J. McNicol, Peabody is co-editing a Festschrift in honor of David L. Dungan, Resourcing New Testament Study (T & T. Clark International, forthcoming), and Peabody's commissioned biographical and bibliographical essays on the German scholars, Johann Jakob Griesbach, Martin Kähler and Martin Dibelius, along with American scholar and Peabody's dissertation advisor, William R. Farmer will appear in the Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters (InterVarsity Press, anticipated in September 2007).
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Peabody has served as President of the NWU faculty (1990-1992), Chair of the Department of Religion (1989-1992), Chair of a combined Department of Religion and Philosophy (1992-1999) and Chair of the Humanities Division, including the Departmernts of English, Modern Languages, Philosophy and Religion (2004-2006). He is an elected member of the international Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (1988-date), a fellow of the International Institute for Renewal of Gospel Study (1987-date), and holds membership in both the American Academy of Religion (1984-date) and the Society of Biblical Literature (1971-date, national unit chair, 1988-1995). He was elected to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 1988.
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A recipient of both an E. C. Ames Fellowship (1990-1991) and an Ameritas Fellowship (1996-1997) from Nebraska Wesleyan University, Professor Peabody has also received travel, research and writing grants from the Volkswagen-Stiftung , the Evangelische Landeskirche von Westfälen, Ruhr-Universität, the Universitäsbund Göttingen, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Konföderation der Niedersächsischen Kirchen, the International Institute for Renewal of Gospel Studies and The International Bible Commentary project.
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