James Barker is Associate Professor of New Testament, and he studies the production and reception of the Gospels. He earned his PhD in New Testament and Early Christianity from Vanderbilt in 2011, and in 2014 he received the Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Studies. His first book was John's Use of Matthew (Fortress Press, 2015; repr. Wipf and Stock, 2022), and his second book was Tatian's Diatessaron: Composition, Redaction, Recension, and Reception, Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford University Press, 2021). His next book is Writing and Rewriting the Gospels: John and the Synoptics (Eerdmans, forthcoming).