Richard Pervo

Richard Ivan Pervo (May 11, 1942 – May 19, 2017)

Pervo was born in Lakewood, Ohio, the son of Ivan Pervo and Elizabeth Kline. He married Karen E. Moreland on April 2, 1967.^[9]

Pervo received his undergraduate degree from

Pervo taught at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary (1975–1999) and as professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota (1999–2001). He served as an Episcopalian priest until 2003.^[3]

A Festschrift in recognition of his scholarship was published posthumously by Mohr Siebeck in late 2017.^[11]

Criminal conviction

In February 2001, Pervo was arrested after investigators found thousands of images of child pornography on his work computer at the

• Profit with Delight: The Literary Genre of the Acts of the Apostles (1987)
  ISBN 978-0800607821
• Luke's Story of Paul (1990)
  ISBN 978-0800624057
• Rethinking the Unity of Luke and Acts (with Mikael C. Parsons) (1993)
  ISBN 978-0800627508
• "Romancing an Oft-Neglected Stone: The Pastoral Epistles and The Epistolary Novel" (1994) Journal of the Higher Criticism, 1 (Fall 1994), 25-47.
• Dating Acts: Between the Evangelists and the Apologists (2006)
  ISBN 978-0944344736
• Acts: A Commentary (2008)
  ISBN 978-0800660451
• The Mystery of Acts: Unravelling its Story (2008)
  ISBN 978-1598150124
• The Making of Paul: Constructions of the Apostle in Early Christianity (2010)
  ISBN 978-0800696597
• The Acts of Paul: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (2014)
  ISBN 978-1625641717
• The Gospel of Luke (2014)
  ISBN 978-1598151411
• The Acts of John (2015)
  ISBN 978-1598151671
• The Pastorals and Polycarp (2016)
  ISBN 978-1598151787

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