Stephen Hultgren is Associate Professor in the University of Divinity, and lecturer in biblical studies at Australian Lutheran College, where he has served since 2012. Dr Hultgren held teaching positions at Duke University (2001–04) and Fordham University (2004–12) before moving to Australia.

An American by birth, he received the BA in classics from Gustavus Adolphus College (1993), the MDiv from Luther Seminary (St. Paul) (1997) and the PhD in New Testament from Duke University (2001). He has twice held Alexander von Humboldt fellowships for advanced study in Germany (2008, Tübingen; 2012, Berlin). He was elected to membership in SNTS, the international society of New Testament scholars, in 2008.

Dr Hultgren regularly teaches across the New Testament field and koine Greek.

Dr Hultgren’s research runs broad and deep, encompassing the synoptic gospels, the Gospel of John, Pauline theology, ancient Judaism (including the Dead Sea Scrolls), and biblical hermeneutics. This research has resulted in five monographs as well as numerous journal articles and book contributions, among other things. His current, major research project is a monograph on the Gospel of John. This work will be in part exegetical, but it will also draw on insights from ancient semiotics as well as the contemporary hermeneutics of historiography and phenomenology to reconsider whether or how the “Fourth Gospel” can be viewed as a form of testimony and/or history, and the implications of this for how we view the gospels more broadly.

Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2004, he served as pastor of St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Central Nyack, New York (2004–07). He is on the role of pastors of the Lutheran Church of Australia, and he serves as co-chair of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue in Australia.

University Appointments

Lecturer in New Testamant (Australian Lutheran College)