David W. Pao is associate professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has served at TEDS since 1998.Dr. Pao earned the Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College, the Master of Arts from Wheaton College Graduate School, the Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, Divinity School, and the Master of Arts and the Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.Prior to joining the faculty at Trinity, Dr. Pao taught and preached at the Chinese Christian Church of Rhode Island while completing his doctoral work at Harvard, where he majored in Greco-Roman World/Early Christianity. He was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard and a visiting lecturer at the China Graduate School of Theology in Hong Kong.

He has contributed to the volume Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, and his articles have appeared in a number of journals and reference works. His recent publications include Acts and the Isaianic New Exodus (Baker, 2002), Thanksgiving: An Investigation of a Pauline Theme (InterVarsity, 2002), Early Christian Voices: In Texts, Traditions, and Symbols (coeditor; Brill, 2003), and Luke (coauthor; Zondervan, 2006). He is also the New Testament editor of the Tien Dao Bible Commentary series and the consulting editor of the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary series.