Gregory E. Sterling has served as The Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School since 2012. He is the former Dean of the Graduate School of the University of Notre Dame, where he also served on the faculty for 23 years.
In his teaching and research, Sterling focuses on Hellenistic Judaism and has published over 110 scholarly papers on, among other subjects, Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, and Luke–Acts. He has focused on the ways Second Temple Jews and early Christians interacted with one another and with the Greco-Roman world. Sterling is the author of Historiography and Self-Definition: Josephus, Luke-Acts, and Apologetic Historiography, Armenian Paradigms, Coptic Paradigms: A Summary of Sahidic Coptic Morphology, and Shaping the Past to Define the Present: Luke-Acts and Apologetic Historiography, and he is the editor or co-editor of five other books.
Sterling is the General Editor of Philo of Alexandria Commentary series published by E. J. Brill, the Co-Editor of the Studia Philonica Annual, and on the editorial board of Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft.
Sterling received his bachelor’s degree in Christianity and History from Houston Baptist University in 1978 and completed post-baccalaureate studies in classics at Houston Baptist the following year. He received an M.A. in Religion from Pepperdine University in 1980 and an M.A. in Classics from University of California, Davis, in 1982. In 1990, he completed his doctoral studies in Biblical Studies with a specialization in the New Testament from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
He has held numerous leadership positions in the Society of Biblical Literature, the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, and the Catholic Biblical Association. He is a minister in the Churches of Christ and serves in several leadership roles for his own denomination.