Dennis MacDonald

This article is about the American theologian and professor. For the American politician, see Dennis McDonald. For the Irish judge, see Denis McDonald.

Dennis Ronald MacDonald
Born1946 (age 79–80)
Known forIdea that the New Testament were responses to the Homeric Epics
TitleJohn Wesley Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
Academic background
EducationBob Jones University (BA)
McCormick Theological Seminary (MDiv)
Harvard University (PhD)
Thesis (1978)
Academic work
DisciplineBiblical studies
Sub-disciplineNew Testament studies
InstitutionsClaremont School of Theology

Dennis Ronald MacDonald (born 1946) is a biblical scholar who holds the John Wesley Professorship of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Claremont School of Theology and teaches religion at the Claremont Graduate University. He is best known for developing Mimesis criticism, a methodology that interprets early New Testament writings, including the Gospel of Mark and the Acts of the Apostles, as deliberate responses to the Homeric epics. MacDonald contends that the failure to recognize the influence of Homeric poetry has skewed modern readings of early Christian narrative.

He also advances the Q+/Papias hypothesis, a proposed solution to the synoptic problem that reconstructs an earlier source titled the Logoi of Jesus.

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