Dr. Peter Williams

Speaker: Dr. Peter Williams

Dr. Peter J. Williams is the Principal and CEO of Tyndale House, Cambridge. He seeks to combine making new technical discoveries about the Bible with growing a culture of researchers who are devoted to Christ. He also loves to share fresh perspectives on the Bible with popular audiences. Williams was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he received his MA, MPhil, and PhD in the study of ancient languages related to the Bible. After his PhD, he was on staff in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge (1997–1998) and thereafter taught Hebrew and Old Testament as an Affiliated Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic at the University of Cambridge and Research Fellow in Old Testament at Tyndale House, Cambridge (1998–2003). From 2003 to 2007 he was on the faculty of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where he became a Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Deputy Head of the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy. Since 2007 he has been leading Tyndale House. Dr. Williams is also an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Cambridge and a member of the Translation Oversight Committee of the English Standard Version of the Bible. He assisted Dr. Dirk Jongkind in Tyndale House’s production of a major edition of the Greek New Testament and his book Can We Trust the Gospels? (Crossway, 2018) has been translated into 14 languages. His latest book, The Surprising Genius of Jesus: What the Gospels Reveal about the Greatest Teacher (Crossway), was published in October 2023.

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Speaker: Dr. Peter Williams

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