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Leo Percer, Ph.D.

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Professor, Biblical Studies

Education

  • Ph.D., Baylor University
  • M.A., Western Kentucky University
  • M.Div., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
  • B.A., Union University

Biography

Dr. Percer grew up in Tennessee, where he received a call to the ministry of teaching. This led to an educational journey that involved working in a variety of ministry areas: youth, singles, children, small groups, and homeless. Upon completion of his Ph.D., Dr. Percer taught at Baylor University and McLennan Community College. He teaches a variety of New Testament classes at Liberty, where he also serves as the director of the Ph.D. in Theology and Apologetics program. His research interests include Second Temple Judaism, the letters of Paul, and apocalyptic literature. He is an active member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Society of Biblical Literature. Dr. Percer enjoys reading, collecting comics, and drinking coffee. He currently lives in Lynchburg, Va. with his wife and two children.

Publications

  • Chilton, Brian G. Conversations about Heaven: Difficult Questions about Our Eternal. Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock), April 2023. Foreword.
  • Percer, Leo. “The Letter to the Hebrews and Deconversion: The Struggle for Spiritual Maturity or Security,” in Faith and the Academy: Engaging the Culture with Grace and Truth, 7, no.1, (Fall 2022). Article.
  • McLendon, Adam, and Cartwright, John, editors. Approaching the New Testament: A Guide for Students, B&H Academic, 2022. Chapters on 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians.
  • Review of John and Anti-Judaism: Reading the Gospel of John in Light of Greco-Roman Culture, by Jonathan Numada. Submitted for publication in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society May 2022. Published in Volume 65, No. 3, September 2022.
  • Vernon, Norica. Be Loved Beloved: Letters, Poems, Devotions that Inspire, Xulon Press, October 2020. Foreword.
  • Review of Why I StillBelieve by Mary Jo Sharp, published in January 2020 by Moral Apologetics at MoralApologetics.com
  • Downey, Amy. Maimonides’s Yahweh: Rabbinic Judaism’s Attempt to Answer the Incarnational Question, Wipf and Stock, 2019. Foreword.
  • Scott, Doug. Is Jesus of Nazareth the Predicted Messiah?: A Historical-Evidential Approach to Specific Old Testament Messianic Prophecies and Their New Testament Fulfillments, Wipf and Stock, 2019. Foreword.
  • Percer, Leo. (Spring 2016). My Time Daily Devotions/Family Time Weekly Devotions, April-June, published by Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, VA. Articles on Psalms.
  • Percer, Leo. “1 John 5:13-21: Confidence in Christ and the Sin unto Death—When Should a Believer Not Pray?” Eruditio Ardescens: The  Journal of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, Volume 1, Issue 2 (Spring/Summer 2014). Article.
  • Percer, Leo. (Fall 2013). My Time Daily Devotions/Family Time Weekly Devotions, October-December, published by Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, VA. Articles on Revelation chapters 1-11.
  • Percer, Leo. (April 2013). “Marriage and Homosexuality in the New Testament.” Web Log for Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary faculty. Article.
  • Percer, Leo. (May 2011). Lexham Bible Dictionary. “The Letter to the Hebrews” (Logos Software). Article.
  • Hindson, Ed; and Caner, Ergun. Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics. Harvest House Publishers, 2008. Articles on the Apocrypha, Gnosticism, and the Lost Gospels of Jesus.
  • Reviews of The Quest for Paul’s Gospel:  A Suggested Strategy, by Douglas Campbell, Rhetoric at the Boundaries, by Bruce W. Longenecker, and Cohesion and Structure in the Pastoral Epistles, by Ray Van Neste.  Submitted for publication in Perspectives in Religious Studies.  November 2006.
  • Review of The Revelation of John:  A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Apocalpyse, by Stephen S. Smalley.  Accepted for publication by the Journal for the Evangelical Theological Society, July 2006.  Published in volume 49, no. 4, December 2006.
  • Reviews of Community-Identity Construction in Galatians, by Atsuhiro Asano, “My Beloved Brothers and Sisters!”  Christian Siblingship in Paul, by Reidar Aasgaard, The Significance of Clothing Imagery in the Pauline Corpus, by Jung Hoon Kim, and Paul, the Fool for Christ, by L. L. Welborn.  Submitted for publication in Perspectives in Religious Studies.  March 2006.
  • Review of Testimony and Interpretation:  Early Christology in its Judeo-Hellenistic Milieu, edited by Jirí Mrázek and Jan Roskovec.  Accepted for publication by the Review of Biblical Literature.  January 2006.
  • Reviews of Scalometry and the Pauline Epistles, by George K. Barr, The Polemic of the Pastorals, by Lloyd K. Pietersen, and Paul, Monotheism, and the People of God, by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis.  Accepted for publication by Perspectives in Religious Studies.  September 2005.
  • Review of Why Four Gospels?  The Historical Origins of the Gospels, by David Alan Black.  Accepted for publication to the Review of Biblical Literature.  December 2002.
  • Review of Linguistics for Students of New Testament Greek, 2nd edition, by David Alan Black.  Accepted for publication to the Review of Biblical Literature.  December 2002.
  • Review of Dictionary of Third World Theologies, edited by Virginia Fabella, M.M., and R. S. Sugirtharajah.  Accepted for publication in the Journal of Religious and Theological Information, volume 5, no. 1, pp. 67-68.  Fall 2002.
  • Review of The Case Against Q:  Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem, by Mark Goodacre.  Accepted for publication by the Review of Biblical Literature.  October 2002.
  • Review of Jesus as a Figure in History:  How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee, by Mark Alan Powell.  Accepted for publication by the Review of Biblical Literature.  March 2001.
  • Review of Jesus in the Eyes of His Followers:  Newly Discovered Manuscripts and Old Christian Confessions, by Petr Pokorný.  Accepted for publication by the Review of Biblical Literature.  May 2000.  Also published in Journal of Biblical Literature, volume 120, no. 3, pp. 561-563.  Fall 2001.
  • Review of The Truth Under Lock and Key:  Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Klaus Berger.  Accepted for publication on the World Wide Web by the IOUDAIOS Review.  October 1997.
  • Percer, Leo. (April 1997) Cell Church Magazine. Article on Neighborhood Prayer..
  • Review of The Religion of Jesus the Jew, by Geza Vermes.  Accepted for publication in the IOUDAIOS Review.  February 1995.

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