Sept. 4, 2012
For Immediate Release
By April Hill, student news writer
CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — Dr. Lynn H. Cohick, professor of New Testament at Wheaton College
will speak at for chapel at Campbellsville University's Ransdell Chapel, 401 N. Hoskins
Ave., Campbellsville, on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 10 a.m. The public is invited to attend
free of charge.
Cohick is a professor of New Testament in the Department of Biblical and Theological
Studies at Wheaton College, and has taught there since 2000. In 1998, Cohick taught
at the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology in Nairobi, Kenya where she
spent three years of her teaching career.
Along with teaching at Wheaton College, she is also the associate editor for Regula
Fidei Commentary series and a member of the editorial board on the Journal for the
Study of Paul and His Letters. She's the secretary at the Institute for Biblical Research,
as well as a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Early Jewish-Christian
Relations Steering Committee, the North American Patristics Society, the Evangelical
Theological Society and the Greco-Roman Backgrounds Consultation Steering Committee.
Cohick earned her bachelor of arts degree in Bible and Religion from Messiah College
in 1984. She then went on to earn her Ph.D. in New Testament and Christian Origins
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996.
Cohick has also researched and published several books and contributed many chapters,
journal articles and reviews to various sources. Some of which include topics like
Jewish and Christian relations as well as several articles on women in early Judaism
and Christianity.
Cohick is married to James A. Cohick Jr. They have two children: Charles and Sarah.
Chapel is designed to provide opportunities for corporate worship and exposure through
a variety of informative speakers and presentations.
Campbellsville University is a widely acclaimed Kentucky-based Christian university
with more than 3,500 students offering 63 undergraduate options, 17 master's degrees,
five postgraduate areas and eight pre-professional programs. The website for complete
information is campbellsville.edu.
