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Carl Holladay | |
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| Born | October 18, 1943 Huntingdon, Tennessee, United States |
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| Doctoral advisor | Ernst Bammel |
| Other advisor | Bertil Gärtner |
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| Discipline | Biblical studies |
| Sub-discipline | New Testament studies |
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Carl Roark Holladay (born 18 October 1943) is an American scholar of New Testament,Christian origins,and Hellenistic Judaism. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Emory University's Candler School of Theology and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [1] [2]
Born October 18,1943,Holladay was born and raised in Huntingdon,Tennessee. He started his undergraduate education at Freed–Hardeman College,where he met his wife,Donna. Moving to Texas,he continued his education at Abilene Christian University,receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) in 1965 and a Master of Divinity degree in 1969. At this Churches of Christ school he was mentored by important scholars from the Stone-Campbell Restoration tradition,including Abraham Malherbe,Everett Ferguson,and Thomas H. Olbricht. After completing a Master of Theology degree at Princeton Theological Seminary under Bertil Gärtner,Holladay moved to England to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Cambridge. Studying with C. F. D. Moule and Ernst Bammel,he finished his dissertation in 1975,writing on the "divine man" in Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity. [3]
After beginning his teaching career at Yale Divinity School in 1975,Holladay came to Candler School of Theology at Emory University in 1980,where he taught until his retirement in 2019. In addition to teaching New Testament,he served as academic dean for almost a decade. In 2002 he was named Charles Howard Candler Professor of New Testament. [4]
Among Holladay’s many scholarly contributions are his critical editions of Hellenistic Jewish authors and his work on New Testament Christology and Luke-Acts. [3]
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