Emerson B. Powery, Professor of Biblical Studies at Messiah College, was a contributor to the Wesley Study Bible and
co-authored Invitation to the New Testament (a short-term DISCIPLE Bible study). He wrote Jesus Reads
Scripture and was one of the lead editors for True to Our Native Land: An African American New
Testament Commentary. Powery received a Master of Divinitydegree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in New
Testament and Christian
