Delbert Burkett
Associate Professor
New Testament and Christian Origins
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

REL 1005 
New Testament

REL 2006 
HONORS: Jesus in
History
and Tradition 

REL 3051 
Apocalypse Then
and Now

REL 4050 
A History of God

REL 4060
Ideas of the
Afterlife

Delbert Burkett teaches courses in early Christianity as well as the history of religious ideas. He has written several works on the New Testament title "Son of Man" and an introduction to the New Testament and the origins of Christianity. His most recent book focuses on the Synoptic Problem. 

ACADEMIC TRAINING

B.A.       Abilene Christian College, Abilene TX (1971) 
M.T.S.    Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge MA (1973 ) 
Ph.D.      Duke University, Durham NC (1989) 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Rethinking the Gospel Sources: From Proto-Mark to Mark. T. & T. Clark International, 2004.
  • An Introduction to the New Testament and the Origins of Christianity. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • The Son of Man Debate: A History and Evaluation.  NTS Monograph Series 107. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 
  • "Two Accounts of Lazarus' Resurrection in John 11." Novum Testamentum 36 (1994) 209-32. 
  • "The Nontitular Son of Man: A History and Critique." New Testament Studies 40 (1994) 504-21. 
  • The Son of the Man in the Gospel of John. JSNT Supplement Series 56. Sheffield Academic Press, 1991. 
  • "Four Sahidic Songs to St. John the Evangelist." Coptic Church Review 9 (1988) 83-86. 

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Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Louisiana State University
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