Mark L. Strauss (Ph.D., Aberdeen) is University Professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary San Diego, where he has served since 1993. He is the author of various books and articles including commentaries on Mark's Gospel in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary Series (2014) and Expositors Bible Commentary (2010); and a commentary on Luke in the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Background Commentary (Zondervan, 2002). He is also author of Jesus Behaving Badly: The Puzzling Paradoxes of the Man from Galilee (2015); How to Read the Bible in Changing Times (2011); Four Portraits, One Jesus: An Introduction to Jesus and the Gospels (Zondervan, 2007); How to Choose a Translation for All It's Worth (with Gordon D. Fee; 2007); The Essential Bible Companion (with John Walton; 2006); Truth and Error in the Da Vinci Code (2006); Distorting Scripture? The Challenge of Bible Translation and Gender Accuracy (InterVarsity, 1998); and The Davidic Messiah in Luke-Acts (Sheffield Press, 1996). He was co-editor and contributor to The Challenge of Bible Translation. Communicating God's Word to the World (Zondervan, 2003), New Testament Editor of the Teach the Text Commentary Series, and Contributing Scholar for the Expanded Bible (Thomas Nelson, 2011). He serves as Vice-Chair on the Committee for Bible Translation for the New International Version and as an associate editor for the NIV Study Bible. Profession memberships include the Society of Biblical Literature, the Institute for Biblical Research and the Evangelical Theological Society.