Matthew Williams | People, Biola University

Departments	Division of Biblical and Theological Studies Talbot School of Theology
Biola Affiliations	Faculty
Phone	(562) 903-4814 (Talbot School of Theology)

Documents

Degrees

Ph.D., Trinity International University
M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
B.S., University of Illinois, Champaign

Member of

Student Health and Wellness Steering Committee (SHAWC Steering) Professor and Chair of New Testament

Biography

Matthew Williams is professor and director of the BA-MA programs at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, where he has taught since 2002. Prior to that, he taught as a missionary in Spain. Williams was awarded professor of the year by Biola University, and continues to preach and teach in various churches and conferences throughout the United States and Spain. He has published Finding Freedom in Jesus: the 21 attributes of your Identity with J.P. Foster; What the New Testament Authors Really Cared About with Kenneth Berding, and video Bible studies, which have sold about 250,000 copies: Gospel of John: Finding Identity and Purpose, The Parables of Jesus, The Forgiveness of Jesus, The Life of Jesus, The Last Days of Jesus, The Prayers of Jesus, The Miracles of Jesus ; and co-edited What the New Testament Authors Really Cared About. He is also the general editor for Spanish biblical and theological books, which have sold over 150,000 copies: Comentarios Bíblicos con Aplicación: Serie NVI, Biblioteca Teológica Vida, and Colección Teológica Contemporánea. He has authored various chapters and articles, including The Synoptic Problem: Three Views of Gospel Origins and La Epístola a los Gálatas, and The Synoptic Gospels.

Affiliations

Evangelical Theological Society (Member)

Publications

Books

Finding Freedom in Jesus: the 21 Attributes of your Identity in Christ, JP Foster and Matt Williams, Zondervan Reflective, 2025.
Word entries for “Remain” through “Seal,” The Baker Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words; ed. By Tremper Longman & Mark L. Strauss, 2023.
Editor and teacher on “Forgiveness,” Center for Marriage and Relationship Video Project, Marriage Mentoring, Biola Learn online, 2020.
Gospel of John: Finding Identity and Purpose, Video Bible Study and Participant’s Guide, Rose/Hendrickson Publishers, 2019
“‘I Am’ Sayings of Jesus;” “Mary, Martha, and Lazarus;” “Seven Signs in John’s Gospel;” and “The Synoptic Problem,” CSB Baker Illustrated Study Bible; Baker Book House, 2018.
Deeper Connections Bible Study Series, general editor and author, Rose Publishing, 2016-2018
What the New Testament Authors Really Cared About, Kenneth Berding and Matt Williams, eds. 2d ed. Grand Rapids, Kregel, August, 2015
“Lucas, Teología de,” [Theology of Luke] published in Alfonso Ropero Berzosa, ed., Gran Diccionario Enciclopédia de la Biblia, Barcelona, Spain: Editorial Clie, 2013, pp. 1544-1547.
“Taking Up the Cross, John 13:4,” in J. Scott Duvall, ed., 52 Devotions on the Greek New Testament, Zondervan, 2012
“Synoptic Problem” (pp. 487-489), “Seven Signs in John” (pp. 664-665), “I am sayings in John” (pp. 666-667), “Mary, Martha and Lazarus” (pp. ) in J. Scott Duvall and J Daniel Hays, eds., Baker Illustrated Bible Handbook, Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011
Deeper Connections Bible Study Series, general editor and author, Zondervan, 2009
What the New Testament Authors Really Cared About, Kenneth Berding and Matt Williams, eds. Grand Rapids, Kregel, May, 2008
Deeper Connections Bible Study Series, general editor and author, Zondervan, 2007
Series Coordinator and General Editor, Comentarios Biblicos con Aplicacion: Serie NVI, 2007-2017; a translation project of scholarly, evangelical books with Zondervan’s Vida Publishing
Series Coordinator and General Editor, Biblioteca Teológica Vida, 2007-2015 a translation project of scholarly, evangelical books with Zondervan’s Vida Publishing

Articles

“Pauline Studies in the Last 25 Years.” an introduction to F. F. Bruce, La Epístola a los Gálatas, translation of F. F. Bruce, The Epistle to the Galatians, NIGTC, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982; Terrassa, Spain: Clie, 2004.
“The Case for Markan Priority.” in The Synoptic Problem: Three Views to Gospel Origins, Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2003.
“A Response to the Two-Gospel View of Gospel Origins.” in The Synoptic Problem: Three Views to Gospel Origins, Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2003.
“A Response to the Independence View of Gospel Origins.” in The Synoptic Problem: Three Views to Gospel Origins, Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2003.
“The Owen Hypothesis.” Journal of Higher Criticism 7, No.1 2000. Pp. 109-25.
“The Synoptic Gospels.” with Scot McKnight, IBR Bibliography Series, Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000.
Review of Las Cartas de Juan (Johannine Letters, NICNT), by I. Howard Marshall, in Agenda Teológica 6-7, Diciembre, 1999. Pp. 86-87.
“Lukan Historiography.” [and Theology] in Historians of the Christian Tradition, ed. M. Bauman & M. Klauber, Broadman & Holman, 1996. Pp. 39-57.
Review of "Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation." by Craig A. Evans, in Trinity Journal 15NS, No. 1, 1994. Pp. 140-42.
Review of "Is There a Synoptic Problem?" by Eta Linnemann, in Trinity Journal 14NS, 1993. Pp. 97-101.