Kenneth E. Bailey, ThD,
is an author and lecturer in Middle Eastern New Testament studies. An ordained
Presbyterian minister, he also serves as canon theologian of the Anglican
Diocese of Pittsburgh. The author of more than 150 articles in English and in
Arabic, Bailey spent forty years living and teaching in seminaries and
institutes in Egypt, Lebanon, Jerusalem, and Cyprus. For twenty of those years
he was professor of New Testament and head of the biblical department of the
Near East School of Theology in Beirut, where he also founded and directed the
Institute for Middle Eastern New Testament Studies.
