Richard J. Erickson (Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary) is associate professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary Northwest in Seattle, where he has taught exegesis to students for over twenty years. Erickson has also taught courses at Lutheran Brethren Seminaries in Kaele, Cameroon, and Sendai, Japan, at Seminario Biblico de Colombia in Medellin, at Seminario Teologico Presbiteriano San Pablo in Merida, Yucatan, and at Tyndale Theological Seminary in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Erickson has published several articles in professional journals and inFaith and Fellowship, the denominational ma...