Daniel Frayer-Griggs

Dr. Daniel Frayer-Griggs is assistant professor of biblical exegesis and director of the Center for Writing and Learning Support. He previously served as visiting assistant professor of Bible from 2021 to 2024, as instructor from 2018 to 2021, and as writing specialist from 2018 to 2023. He holds a Ph.D. in New Testament (Durham University) and additional degrees in education (M.Ed., Aquinas College), English (M.A., McNeese State University; BA, Hope College), and theology (MA, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary; BA, Hope College).

Dr. Frayer-Griggs is the author of Saved Through Fire: The Fiery Ordeal in New Testament Eschatology (Pickwick, 2016) and co-editor of “To Recover What Has Been Lost”: Essays on Eschatology, Intertextuality, and Reception History in Honor of Dale C. Allison Jr. (Brill, 2020). He has contributed to Harvard Theological Review, Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, Reviews in Religion and Theology, and New Testament Studies. Dr. Frayer-Griggs presents regularly at meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature and received the SBL Regional Scholar Award in 2013.

Dr. Frayer-Griggs' exegetical approaches include both robust historical critical scholarship and attention to contextually-driven perspectives present in the life of the church. His work and teaching accordingly bring together rigorous attention to the biblical texts in their original contexts and insistence upon reading the Bible from perspectives of pastoral and social significance, including disability and ecological hermeneutics.

Dr. Frayer-Griggs is an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He teaches at local churches and has contributed lessons to The Presbyterian Outlook.

Co-editor with Tucker S. Ferda and Nathan C. Johnson. “To Recover What Has Been Lost”: Essays on Eschatology, Intertextuality, and Reception History in Honor of Dale C. Allison Jr. Novum Testamentum Supplements Series 183. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

Editor. The Pilgrim’s Progress in Modern Language. Whitaker House, 2019.

Saved through Fire: The Fiery Ordeal in New Testament Eschatology. Pickwick, 2016.

“‘More Than a Prophet’: Echoes of Exorcism in Markan and Matthean Baptist Traditions.” In Matthew and Mark Across Perspectives: Essays in Honour of Stephen C. Barton and William R. Telford, edited by Kristian A. Bendoraitis and Nijay K. Gupta, 36-51. Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016.

“The Beasts at Ephesus and the Cult of Artemis.” Harvard Theological Review 106, no. 4 (2013), 459-477.

“Spittle, Clay, and Creation in John 9: 6 and Some Dead Sea Scrolls.” Journal of Biblical Literature 132, no. 3 (2013), 659-670.

“Neither Proof Text nor Proverb: The Instrumental Sense of διά and the Soteriological Function of Fire in 1 Corinthians 3.15.” New Testament Studies 59, no. 4 (2013), 517-534.

“'Everyone Will Be Baptized in Fire': Mark 9.49, Q 3.16, and the Baptism of the Coming One.” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 7, no. 3 (2009), 254-285.