Personal (and some links)
Craig S. Keener is especially known for his work as a New Testament scholar on Bible background (commentaries on the New Testament in its early Jewish and Greco-Roman settings). His popular-level IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament has sold over half a million copies (if one includes translations and electronic sales). (Naturally his academic books do not sell so many copies.)
Just released: Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts (Baker Academic, 2011)
Christianity Today interviewed me about one aspect of the book here: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/december/okay-to-expect-miracle.html
Named 2011 Book of the Year by Christian Book Distributors' academic blog (http://blogs.christianbook.com/blogs/academic/2011/12/30/2011-books-of-the-year/)
See Miracles (for other interviews and information)
Craig Keener is author of many books, including three commentaries that have won awards in Christianity Today. His commentaries include (among others):
· A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew (Eerdmans, 1999; slightly revised edition, 2009) (also a briefer version with IVP)
· The Gospel of John: A Commentary (2 vols., Baker Academic, 2003) (note: new publisher)
· Revelation (Zondervan, 2000)
· 1-2 Corinthians (Cambridge, 2006)
· Romans (Cascade/Wipf & Stock, 2009)
Other books include (not an exhaustive list):
· The Historical Jesus of the Gospels (Eerdmans, 2009)
· Gift & Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today (Baker, 2001)
· Paul, Women & Wives (Hendrickson, 1992)
· Defending Black Faith (with Glenn Usry)
Craig’s wife Médine, with a Ph.D. from University of Paris 7, was teaching at Eastern University and currently is coordinator of spouse and family ministries at Asbury Theological Seminary. Médine was a refugee for eighteen months in her home country in Africa, and together they have worked for ethnic reconciliation in Africa.
Craig, who did his Ph.D. at Duke University, is a professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary (starting fall 2011), and was for more than a decade professor of New Testament at Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University, where he was also one of the associate pastors at an African-American Baptist church in Philadelphia. He has taught in various countries, especially countries in Africa. On very rare occasions, he also speaks in other forums (in recent years, for example, for pastors in Cuba; for the National Council of Churches Committee on the Uniform Series; for scholarly meetings; and at a diverse range of theological institutions, in recent years including the Assemblies of God Seminary; New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; Andrews University; Asia Pacific Theological Seminary in Baguio, Philippines; and Evangel Seminary in Hong Kong).
This is my personal home page, but another ministry agreed to host a site that would periodically offer selections from my work for a wider readership: