Charles H. Talbert

Contact Information:
Department of Religion
Baylor University
One Bear Place #97284
Waco, TX 76798-7284

Office: Robinson Tower 280

Phone: (254) 710-8622
FAX: (254) 710-3740

Email:
Charles_Talbert@baylor.edu

Distinguished Professor of Religion

Education:

• B.A. Samford University
• B.D. The Southern Baptist Seminary
• Ph.D. Vanderbilt University

Biography:

Assistant Professor of Religion, Wake Forest University, 1963-68; Associate Professor, WFU, 1968-74; Professor, WFU, 1974-89; Wake Forest Professor of Religion, 1989-96; Distinguished Professor of Religion, Baylor University, 1996--

Academic Interests and Research:

Christian Origins (New Testament and its environment, Greco-Roman and Jewish; 2nd century Christianity)

Professional Awards and Activities

President, Society of Biblical Literature/SE, 1976-77;

President, National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, 1981-82;

President, Catholic Biblical Association, 1999-2000;

President, Society of Biblical Literature/SW, 2001-02;

Chair, Luke-Acts Seminar of SBL, 1979-83;

Editorial board of PRS, 1979-88;

Editor, NABPR Dissertation Series, 1981-84;

Editor, SBL Dissertation Series/NT, 1984-86, 1987-89;

Co-Chair, Matthew Group of SBL, 1985-91;

Editorial board JBL, 1981-83;

Associate editor, CBQ, 1991-94;

Editor, Reading the NT Commentary Series, 1982-2008;

Editor, Crossroad Coompanions to the NT, 1995-2006;

Co-editor, Paideia Commentaries on the NT, 2005--

Grants and Fellowships

Post-doctoral fellowship, Cooperative Program in the Humanities, UNC, Chapel Hill, 1968-69;

Post-doctoral fellowship, Society for Religion in Higher Education, American Academy in Rome, 1971-72;

Reynolds Research Fellowship, 1979, 1986, 1991;

Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School, 1980;

Faculty Director, Casa Artom, Venice, 1983;

Faculty Director, Worrell House, London, 1990;

CBA Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, 2001;

Visiting Professor at Duke Divinity School, 2005

Selected Research Articles:

Approximately 100 articles in learned journals, Festschriften, encyclopedias, etc.

Books:

Author or editor of more than 20 books, some of which have been translated into German, Japanese, and Korean; others of which have been reissued in multiple revised editions or reprinted for reissue due to professional demand.

Former Ph.D. Students

Stan Harstine
Catherine Wright
Perry Stepp
Joel Weaver
Pamela Hedrick
Michael Martin
Jason Whitlark
Derek Dodson
Dan Reilly

Current Ph.D. Students

Julien Smith
Roy Millhouse
Hong-suk Kim
Jesse Robertson
Alicia Myers.

Courses Taught at Baylor:

• REL 5312 Seminar in the Pauline Epistles
• REL 5313 Seminar in the Synoptic Gospels
• REL 5314 Seminar in Johannine Literature
• REL 5318 New Testament Theology