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Kavin Rowe

Vice Dean for Faculty at Duke Divinity School
Divinity School
Duke Box 90967, Durham, NC 27708-0967
Divinity School, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


C. Kavin Rowe is the George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Duke University Divinity School. His newest book is Christianity's Surprise: A Sure and Certain Hope (Abingdon, 2020). He is the author of three other books: One True Life: the Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions (Yale University Press, 2016), World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age (Oxford University Press, 2009, paperback 2010), and Early Narrative Christology (de Gruyter, 2006, repr. Baker Academic, 2009). He has published multiple scholarly articles and co-edited The Word Leaps the Gap (Eerdmans, 2008) and Rethinking the Unity and Reception of Luke and Acts (University of South Carolina Press, 2010). He is on the editorial board of several international peer-review journals and has also frequently written articles for faithandleadership.com.

Rowe has been a Fulbright Scholar, Regional Scholar for the Society of Biblical Literature, chair of the Society’s Southeastern Region New Testament section, president of the Society's Southeastern Region, and was elected to the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. He was awarded a Lilly Faculty Fellowship, a Christian Faith and Life Grant from the Louisville Institute, the John Templeton Prize for Theological Promise, the Paul J. Achtemeier Award, a Distinguished Scholars grant from the McDonald Agape Foundation, and a project grant from the Issachar Fund.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Vice Dean for Faculty at Duke Divinity School · 2021 - Present Divinity School
George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament · 2020 - Present Divinity School
Professor of New Testament · 2016 - Present Divinity School
Associate Dean of the Faculty at Duke Divinity School · 2021 - Present Divinity School

Education, Training & Certifications


Duke University · 2005 Ph.D.
Princeton Theological Seminary · 1999 M.Div.
Wake Forest University · 1996 B.A.