Richard Bauckham is professor emeritus of New Testament studies at St. Mary's College, University of St. Andrews and Senior Scholar at Ridley Hall in Cambridge. His current research interests include Jesus and the Gospels, New Testament Christology, and the relevance of the Bible to ecological issues. Among his books on the New Testament and early Christianity are God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament, God and the Crisis of Freedom: Biblical and Contemporary Perspectives ( and The Theology of the Book of Revelation (Cambridge).