Dennis Macdonald

Dennis Ronald MacDonald is a biblical scholar who holds the John Wesley Professorship of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Claremont School of Theology and teaches religion at the Claremont Graduate University. He is best known for developing Mimesis criticism, a methodology that interprets early New Testament writings, including the Gospel of Mark and the Acts of the Apostles, as deliberate responses to the Homeric epics. MacDonald contends that the failure to recognize the influence of Homeric poetry has skewed modern readings of early Christian narrative.