Invitation to the New Testament: Participant Book (A Short-term DISCIPLE Bible Study)
David A. deSilva(Ph.D., Emory University) is Trustees' Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio and an ordained elder in the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church.  He is the author of over twenty books, includingThe Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned From the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha(2012),Global Readings: A Sri Lankan Commentary on Paul's Letter to the Galatians(2011),Seeing Things John's Way: The Rhetoric of the Book of Revelation(2009),An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation(2004), Introducing the Apocrypha: Message, Context, and Significance(2002),Perseverance in Gratitude: A Socio-rhetorical Commentary on the Epistle "to the Hebrews"(2000), andHonor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture(2000), as well as over one hundred journal articles and contributions to reference works and collections of essays.Emerson Powery(Ph.D., Duke University) is Professor of New Testament at Messiah College.  He is the author ofJesus Reads Scripture: The Function of Jesus' Use of Scripture in the Synoptic Gospels(2003) andMark: Immersion Bible Studies(2011). He also served as host for the revised video series accompanying United Methodist Publishing House'sDISCIPLE Icurriculum.