Frank Thielman joined the Beeson Divinity School faculty in 1989 and teaches courses in Greek, New Testament theology and the Pauline letters. His scholarly work concentrates mainly on the apostle Paul. Thielman is the author, among other books, of Paul, Apostle of Grace (Eerdmans, 2025), Romans  (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, 2018) and Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach  (Zondervan, 2005). The complete list of his publications is listed below. He is a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS) and is an ordained Presbyterian (PCA) minister. He and his wife, Abby, have been married for 40 years and have three married children and two grandchildren.

Education

• Additional studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
• PhD, Duke University
• BA, MA, University of Cambridge
• BA, Wheaton College

Books

• Paul, Apostle of Grace. Eerdmans, 2025.
• Paul's Letter to the Romans. Hendrickson, 2023.
• The New Creation and the Storyline of Scripture. Crossway, 2021.
• Romans, Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Zondervan, 2018.
• Ephesians, Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Baker Academic, 2010.
• Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach. Zondervan, 2005. 
• The Law and the New Testament: The Question of Continuity, Companions to the New Testament. Crossroad, 1999.
• Philippians, NIV Application Commentary. Zondervan, 1995.
• Paul and the Law: A Contextual Approach. Inter-Varsity, 1994.
• From Plight to Solution: A Jewish Framework for Understanding Paul's View of the Law in Galatians and Romans. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 69. Brill, 1989.  (Re-released in paperback, Wipf & Stock, 2007).

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

• “Paul’s View of Israel’s Misstep in Rom 9.32–33: Its Origin and Meaning,” New Testament Studies 64 (2018): 362–77. 
• “Worship in the New Testament,” The Church: Worship, Tradition, and Engagement: Essays in Honor of Timothy George, eds. David S. Dockery, James Earl Massey, and Robert R. Smith, 64-78. Wipf & Stock, 2018.
• “The Road to Nicaea: The New Testament,” Evangelicals and the Nicene Faith: Reclaiming the Apostolic Witness, ed. Timothy George, 34-44. Baker Academic, 2011. 
• “The Group and the Individual in Salvation: The Witness of Paul." After Imperialism: Christian Identity in China and the Global Evangelical Movement: Studies in Chinese Christianity, eds. Richard R. Cook and David W. Pao, 136-53. Pickwick Publications, 2011.
• “God’s Righteousness as God’s Fairness in Romans 1:17: An Ancient Perspective on a Significant Phrase,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 54 (2011): 35–48. 
• “Ephesians," Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, eds. G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson, 813-33. Baker Book House, 2007.
• “The Atonement,” Central Themes in Biblical Theology: Mapping Unity in Diversity eds. Scott J. Hafemann and Paul R. House, 102-27. Inter-Varsity Press, 2007.
• “Ephesus and the Literary Setting of Philippians,” New Testament Greek and Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Gerald F. Hawthorne, eds. Amy M. Donaldson and Timothy B. Sailors, 203-21. Eerdmans, 2003.
• “Evangelicals and the Jesus Quest: Some Problems of Historical and Theological Method,” Churchman 115 (2001): 61–73. 
• “The Place of the Apocalypse in the Canon of St. Gregory Nazianzen,” Tyndale Bulletin 49.1 (1998): 155-57.
• “Law and Liberty in the Ethics of Paul,” Ex Auditu 11 (1995): 63-75. 
• “The Story of Israel and the Theology of Romans 5-8, Pauline Theology, vol. III, Romans, eds. David M. Hay and E. Elizabeth Johnson, 169-95. Fortress, 1995.
• “Unexpected Mercy: Echoes of a Biblical Motif in Romans 9-11,” Scottish Journal of Theology 47 (1994): 169-81.
• “Law (in Paul/Paul and the Law),” The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters. 529-42. InterVarsity Press, 1993.
• “The Coherence of Paul’s View of the Law: The Evidence of First Corinthians.”  New Testament Studies 38 (1992): 235-53.
• “The Style of the Fourth Gospel and Ancient Literary Critical Concepts of Religious Discourse” in Persuasive Artistry: Studies in New Testament Rhetoric in Honor of George A. Kennedy, ed. Duane F. Watson,. 169-83. Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.
• “Another Look at the Eschatology of Eusebius of Caesarea.”  Vigiliae Christianae 41 (1987): 226-37.

Research Interests

• Paul and his letters
• Biblical theology
• The material and cultural setting of first century Christianity

Involvement

• Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas/Society for New Testament Studies
• Society of Biblical Literature
• Institute for Biblical Research
• Evangelical Theological Society
• Catholic Biblical Association
• Altadena Valley Presbyterian Church

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