Programme Speakers
Philip Esler
Philip Esler became Chief Executive of the AHRC in September 2005. He took up a position as Reader in New Testament in St Andrews University in October 1992 and was promoted to Professor of Biblical Criticism in September 1995 and more recently Vice-Principal for Research. Before becoming an academic, Professor Esler worked for 10 years as a litigation solicitor and then a barrister in Australia. He was awarded a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1984; his research was on the New Testament and his thesis focused on The Social and Political Motivations of Lucan Theology. He has published very extensively, particularly in the social-scientific analysis of New Testament and other biblical and apocryphal texts, and in New Testament theology. He also has a recent monograph in the area of the Bible and the visual arts co-authored with a British artist.
