21 Facts About Peter Enns

Peter Eric Enns was born on January 2,1961 and is an American Biblical scholar and theologian.

Peter Enns has written widely on hermeneutics, Christianity and science, historicity of the Bible, and Old Testament interpretation.

Outside of his academic work Enns is a contributor to HuffPost and Patheos.

Peter Enns has worked with Francis Collins' The BioLogos Foundation.

Peter Enns's book The Evolution of Adam questions the belief that Adam was a historical figure.

Peter Enns was born in Passaic, New Jersey, on January 2,1961, to German-American immigrant parents.

Peter Enns grew up in River Vale, New Jersey, and graduated from Pascack Valley High School in 1978.

Peter Enns returned to Westminster Theological Seminary in 1994 to begin his teaching career.

Peter Enns was tenured in 2000 and promoted to full professor in 2005 as a professor of Old Testament and Biblical hermeneutics.

Peter Enns was a senior fellow of Biblical studies with the BioLogos Foundation, a Christian organization that "explores, promotes, and celebrates the integration of science and Christian faith".

Peter Enns is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and has served on the Wisdom in Israel and Cognate Literature Session steering committee since 2006.

Peter Enns is a member of the Institute for Biblical Research, where he served on the board of directors from 2004 to 2007 and the editorial board for the Bulletin for Biblical Research from 2002 to 2004.

In 2017, Peter Enns launched the Bible for normal people podcast together with Jared Byas.

Peter Enns has written many articles, essays, dictionary and encyclopedia entries, and book reviews on varied topics surrounding the Old Testament and its interpretation.

Peter Enns's 2008 edited volume, Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry, and Writings, won the Christianity Today "Award of Merit" for 2009 and the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's "2009 Christian Book of the Year" award in the Bible Reference and Study category.

Peter Enns has taught courses at Princeton Theological Seminary, Harvard University, Fuller Theological Seminary, Eastern University, and Biblical Theological Seminary.

Peter Enns garnered significant attention for his 2005 book Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament.

Peter Enns looks at three issues raised in modern biblical scholarship that he feels are mishandled by Evangelicals: the strong similarities between the Old Testament and the literature of other ancient societies;, theological diversity among the Old Testament authors; how New Testament writers interpreted the Old Testament in inventive ways that reflect Jewish practices of the time.

Peter Enns argues for an incarnational understanding of the Bible as a way to take seriously these types of challenges.

Peter Enns feels that the problems raised by the "human dimension" of the Bible for many evangelicals "has less to do with the Bible itself and more to do with our own preconceptions" of how the Bible ought to be.

Those meetings, moderated by Lillback, took place over a two-year period and led to the preparation of two written reports, at Lillback's direction, to aid the faculty in determining whether or not Peter Enns was in violation of his oath.