David A. deSilva serves as Trustees’ Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary, where he has taught since 1995. He is the author of over thirty books, including An Introduction to the New Testament (rev. ed., IVP, 2018), Introducing the Apocrypha (rev. ed., Baker Academic, 2018), Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity (rev. ed., IVP, 2022), Discovering Revelation (Eerdmans, 2021), and commentaries on Galatians, Ephesians, and Hebrews. He is ordained in the Global Methodist Church and has served as an organist and choir director at churches of various denominations since 1984. He is married to Donna Jean, with whom he shares three adult sons.