Thomas Hudgins, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Education

PhD, Complutense University of Madrid
EdD, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
MDiv, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
BA, Southeastern College

Biography

Dr. Hudgins earned a PhD in Ancient World Studies (Greek Philology) from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and an EdD from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (USA). His research interests related to his PhD focus on the New Testament, Greek language and linguistics, textual criticism, and New Testament Apocrypha. His research interests related to his EdD focus on course design, leveraging technology in traditional and online instruction, and task-based learning.

Select Publications

Akin, Daniel L., & Thomas W. Hudgins, eds. Getting into the Text: A Festschrift in Honor of David Alan Black. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2017.
Black, David Alan. Aprenda a leer el griego del Nuevo Testamento. Translated by Thomas W. Hudgins. Gonzalez, FL: Energion, 2015.
Black, David Alan, & Thomas W. Hudgins. “Jesus on Anger (Matt 5,22a): A History of Recent Scholarship.” In Greeks, Jews, and Christians: Historical, Religious, and Philological Studies in Honor of Jesús Peláez del Rosal, edited by L. Roig Lanzillotta & I.Muñoz Gallarte, 91–104. Córdoba: El Almendro, 2013.
Hudgins, Thomas W. “An Application of Discourse Analysis Methodology in the Exegesis of John 17.” Eleutheria 2:1 (2012): 24–57.
Hudgins, Thomas W. “Electronic Tools and New Testament Greek.” In Linguistics and New Testament Greek: Key Issues in the Current Debate, ed. Benjamin Merkle & David Alan Black. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2020.
Hudgins, Thomas W. “The Greek Column of the Complutensian New Testament and the Plausibility of Vatican Manuscripts.” Fortunatae 31 (2020): 29–44.
Hudgins, Thomas W. “Justice: A Concept Study in Biblical Greek.” In Biblical Justice, ed. Benjamin K. Forrest, D. A. Horton, & John Lee. Grand Rapids: Kregel, forthcoming.
Hudgins, Thomas W. “Lazarus and Dives, New Testament.” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 15, ed. Christine Helmer et al., 1088–1089. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017.
Hudgins, Thomas W. “Lexicography, Greek New Testament.” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 16, ed. Christine Helmer et al., 438–439. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.
Hudgins, Thomas W.Luke 6:40 and the Theme of Likeness Education in the New Testament. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2014.
Hudgins, Thomas W. “Midnight.” In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 18, ed. Constance M. Furey et al. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
Hudgins, Thomas W. “Neogrammarians.” Encyclopedia of Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics, ed. Stanley E. Porter et al. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2021).
Hudgins, Thomas W. “Paul’s Unique Appeal to Mimesis in Gal 4,12.” In Nova et Vetera: Philological Studies in Honor of Professor Antonio Piñero, Estudios de Filología Neotestamentaria 11, ed. Israel M. Gallarte & Jesús Peláez, 399–412. Córdoba: El Almendro, 2016.
Hudgins, Thomas W. “Textual Issues Involving Old Testament Quotations in Peter’s First Two Speeches in Acts.” In The Variety and Importance of the Scriptural Witnesses to the So-Called ‘Western’ Text: Essays in Honour of Jenny Reid-Heimerdinger, ed. J. K. Elliott & Laurent Pinchard, 179–202. NTTSD. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Hudgins, Thomas W. Those Footnotes in Your New Testament: A Textual Criticism Primer for Everyone. Gonzalez, FL: Energion, 2017.
Hudgins, Thomas W., & Antonio Piñero. The Story of Jesus’ Life Based on the Apocryphal Gospels. Gonzalez, FL: Energion, 2024.
Hudgins, Thomas W., & J. Gregory Lawson. “Philippians.” In Discourse Analysis of the New Testament, ed. Todd A. Scacewater, 117–43. Fontes, 2020.
Peláez, Jesús. “Miracle Stories in the Gospel of Mark: Morphology and Interpretation.” In The Literary-Linguistic Analysis of the New Testament: The Enduring Legacy of Russian Formalism and the Prague Linguistics Circle, translated by Thomas W. Hudgins, edited by Stanley E. Porter, Zachary K. Dawson, and Ryder S. Wishart, 379–423. LBS. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
Piñero, Antonio. “The Origin of Jesus’ Speeches in the Fourth Gospel.” In Getting into the Text: A Festschrift in Honor of David Alan Black, translated by Thomas W. Hudgins, edited by Daniel L. Akin & Thomas W. Hudgins, 211–226. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2017.