Dr. Douglas J. Moo Biography
Douglas J. Moo is New Testament Professor Emeritus from Wheaton College and Distinguished visiting Professor of New Testament at Phoenix Seminary. He taught at Wheaton for 23 years after teaching for 24 years at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (where he also served as chair of the New Testament Department, editor of Trinity Journal, and director of the PhD program in Biblical and Theological Studies). At Wheaton, he was the founding director of the PhD program; he taught in the masters and PhD programs and mentored PhD students.
Doug is also a member of the Committee on Bible Translation, the independent body of scholars which has oversight of the New International Version. He has been on the committee since 1996 and chaired the committee from 2005 to 2023. He has lectured widely on translation issues and has written several articles on translation, including “We Still Don’t Get It: Evangelicals and Bible Translation Fifty Years After James Barr”.
He has written or co-written fifteen books, including The Old Testament in the Gospel Passion Narratives (1983; reprint, 2008), A Theology of Paul and his Letters (2021), with D. A. Carson, Introduction to the New Testament (rev. ed., 2005), and, with his son Jonathan Moo, Creation Care: A Biblical Theology of the Natural World. He has been especially active in writing commentaries: The Epistle of James (Tyndale New Testament Commentary, 1985; rev. ed., 2015), Romans 1-8 (Wycliffe Exegetical Commentary, 1991), A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (New International Commentary on the New Testament, 1996; rev. ed., 2018), 2 Peter, Jude (NIV Application Commentary, 1996), The Epistle of James (Pillar Commentary, 2000; rev. ed., 2021), Romans (NIV Application Commentary, 2000), Encountering the Book of Romans: A Theological Survey (2002; rev. ed., 2014), The Letters to the Colossians and to Philemon (Pillar New Testament Commentary, Eerdmans, 2008; revised ed., 2024), Galatians (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, 2013), Hebrews (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, 2024), and Philippians (Evangelical Biblical Theological Commentary, forthcoming).
Doug lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife, Jenny. Together, they enjoy traveling and nature photography (see djmoo.com). They have five grown children, all married, and thirteen grandchildren.