Mark S. Gignilliat (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, and theologian in residence at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham, Alabama. He previously taught at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford. Gignilliat is the author of several books, including Reading Scripture Canonically, A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism, and Karl Barth and the Fifth Gospel.