A popular speaker on several of our cruises, David serves as the Trustees' Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies at Ashland Theological Seminary. He has authored thirty-five books, including Archaeology and the Ministry of Paul (2025), Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture (2nd ed., 2022), Discovering Revelation (2021), A Week in the Life of Ephesus (2020), Introducing the Apocrypha (2nd ed., 2018), a widely-used Introduction to the New Testament (2nd ed., 2018), and commentaries on Galatians, Ephesians, and Hebrews.