David J. Lull is associate professor of New Testament at Wartburg Theological Seminary and an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church; formerly the director of the Bible Translation and Utilization program of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., executive director of the Society of Biblical Literature, and associate professor of New Testament at the Yale University Divinity School. With John B. Cobb, Jr., he coauthored Romans in the Chalice Commentaries for Today series.