Petr Pokornı was born in
Czechoslovakia in 1933. He holds an Mgr. (M.Div.) degree from the Comenius Faculty of
Protestant Theology in Prague and a Ph.D. and a Dr.Sc. from Oxford University. He has
served as vicar and minister for two congregations of the Protestant Church of Czech
Brethren. He has taught at the Comenius Faculty, the University of Greifsward, and is
currently professor, director of the Biblical Institute and dean of the faculty at the
Charles University Protestant Faculty of Theology. He has been a visiting professor or
substitute at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the
University of Tübingen and has presented visiting lectures at more than thirty
universities in Europe and the United States.In 1978, he participated in the third Nag
Hammadi expedition. In 1988, he conducted excavations in Jordan with the German Protestant
Institute for the Archeology of the Holy Land. He is a member and past president of
Sudiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, and a member and past chairman of the Scholarly Forum
of the United Bible Societies for Europe and the Middle East. He is now a consultant to
the Committee for the Russian Literary Bible Translation and a member of the Akademie der
Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.
He has published sixteen books and over a hundred papers, articles, and reviews.
His wife, Vera, is a child psychologist. They have three daughters, one son, and seven
grandchildren.
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