Paul Maier, Ph.D.
Professor of Ancient
History, Author
Dr. Paul L. Maier is the Russell H. Seibert Professor of
Ancient History at Western Michigan University. He received a
Master of Arts degree from Harvard University and a Master of
Divinity from Concordia Seminary. He then pursued
post-graduate studies as a Fulbright scholar at the
Universities of Heidelberg, Germany, and Basel, Switzerland.
He received the Doctor of Philosophy degree (summa cum laude)
from the University of Basel under the supervision of Karl
Barth and Oscar Cullmann. Dr. Maier is a specialist in
correlating data from the ancient world with the New
Testament. In 1984 he was named "Professor of the Year," as
one of America's 25 finest educators, by the Washington-based
Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He currently
travels and lectures widely and appears frequently on national
radio and television.
Professor Maier has published more than 200 articles and reviews
in general and professional journals. His first documentary novel,
Pontius Pilate, received wide critical acclaim and has
gone through numerous printings, editions and translations. He
has also authored a trilogy of books on the life of Jesus and
earliest Christianity (now published in one volume), In the
Fullness of Time -- A Historian Looks at Christmas, Easter
and the Early Church. Dr. Maier's many other books include:
The Flames of Rome, A Man Spoke a World Listened
, Josephus: The Essential Works and Eusebius: The
Church History.
