Dr. William Wright is a specialist in New Testament studies with special focus on the Johannine writings. His interests also include the role of Greco-Roman rhetoric, literary criticism, and aesthetics in the Gospels, the use of premodern reception history as a theological and interpretive resource in light of the Catholic Ressourcement, and the theoretical underpinnings of biblical exegesis. He is the author of numerous articles and several books: Rhetoric and Theology: Figural Reading of John 9 (Walter de Gruyter, 2009); the forthcoming The Bible and Catholic Ressourcement: Essays in Scripture and Theology (Emmaus Academic, 2019); and, with Francis Martin, The Gospel of John (Baker Academic, 2015) and Encountering the Living God in Scripture: Theological and Philosophical Principles for Interpretation (Baker Academic, 2019). He has been elected to the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas and serves on the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Ecumenical Dialogue. He is also a Lay Dominican.