David Barrett Peabody, Ph. D.
Biographical Sketch
Professor David B. 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.
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 T. & T.
Clark International, A Continuum Imprint, 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.
Commissioned contributions by Peabody appear in New Testament. History of
Interpretation (Abingdon Press, 2004), the Dictionary
of Biblical Interpretation (Abingdon Press,
1999), the Historical
Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters
(InterVarsity Press, 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), as well as in
a Polish edition 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 and, in 2005, Peabody accepted new commissions to
contribute biographical and bibliographical articles on Martin Kähler, Martin
Dibelius and William R. Farmer to the forthcoming Dictionary of Major
Biblical Interpreters (InterVarsity Press).
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 (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 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.
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 Westfalen, Ruhr-Universität, the
Universitätsbund Göttingen, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the
Konföderation der Niedersächsischen Kirchen, the International Institute for
Renewal of Gospel Studies and The International Bible Commentary project.
A native Texan, Professor Peabody has lived in Lincoln since coming to
Nebraska Wesleyan University in the fall of 1984. On 4 January 2003, he married
Jeri L. Brandt, Professor of Nursing at NWU. Together, they have three married
daughters and seven grandchildren.
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