W. Hall Harris III, Ph.D.
Professor of New Testament Studies
Dallas Theological Seminary
Project Director and Managing Editor for the NET Bible
bible.org
B.A., North Carolina State University, 1974; Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1978; Ph.D., University of Sheffield, 1989.
Dr. Harris has taught on the faculty of Dallas Theological Seminary since 1978. During his long tenure at the Seminary, Dr. Harris has worked on various projects involving Bible translations such as the New American Standard Bible 1995 update, the NET Bible, and the Lexham Interlinear Greek New Testament. He has traveled and ministered extensively in Western Europe, especially in Germany and Italy. His wife is from Germany and he has close ties to the German Bible Society (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft), including extensive work on a joint publication with GBS as editor of the New English Translation—Novum Testamentum Graece New Testament (2004). Since its beginning in 1995 Dr. Harris has served as Project Director and Managing Editor for the NET Bible, the first Bible to be published electronically on the Internet. He has published a commentary on the letters of John, 1, 2, 3 John: Comfort and Counsel for a Church in Crisis (2003) and is currently working on a commentary on the Gospel of John. At Dallas Seminary Dr. Harris teaches classes in Greek grammar and syntax, exegetical method, the Gospel and Letters of John, and the use of computer tools and Internet resources for biblical study and exegesis. He has recently completed The Lexham Interlinear Greek New Testament for Logos Bible Software, a new enhanced interlinear NT and English translation. In addition, he has remained active in local church ministry. As an ordained minister he has served over the years as pastor of single adults, elder, and adult Sunday school teacher.
For thirty years W. Hall Harris III has taught on the faculty of Dallas Theological Seminary in the New Testament Studies Department. Since 1995 he has served as Project Director and Managing Editor for the NET Bible at bible.org passionately steering this revolutionary Bible from inception to global impact. Dr. Harris has traveled extensively in Western Europe, especially in Germany and Italy. And as an ordained minister he has served over the years as pastor of single adults, elder, and adult Sunday school teacher.
