B. J. Oropeza
Brisio Javier Oropeza is an American biblical scholar and theologian who is best known for his studies in Pauline literature, intertextuality, apostasy and perseverance. He is professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Azusa Pacific University and Seminary in Azusa, California.
Education and personal life
Oropeza was born in 1961. He earned his bachelor's degree in biblical studies from Northern California Bible College, Pleasanton, California. He earned a master's degree in apologetics at Simon Greenleaf School of Law, and a second master's degree in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He earned his Ph.D. in New Testament Theology at Durham University in 1998 under the supervision of Drs. James D. G. Dunn and Loren T. Stuckenbruck.Career
From 1990 to 1995, Oropeza worked for the Christian Research Institute, an apologetics organization oriented toward researching and countering cults and new religious movements, as a Research Associate and assistant for the Christian Research Journal. After completing his Ph.D., Oropeza taught at George Fox University as Visiting assistant professor of Religious Studies.He is professor of Biblical studies position at Azusa Pacific University starting in 2003. He has been a scholar in residence at the University of Tübingen, and visiting scholar in residence at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He does supervising for students working on their Ph.D., currently through St. Andrews University, Scotland/Trinity College.
Oropeza started the Intertextuality in the New Testament section of the Society of Biblical Literature, co-chaired the Scripture and Paul seminar. He was on the editorial board of the Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity series .
In 2018, he was elected to membership of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. He has contributed to Bible translations for the New Revised Standard Edition, the Common English Bible, and the Lexham English Septuagint. He is an internationally published author, including contributions in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation and The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology. He is also a columnist for the blog In Christ at Patheos.com.