Dr. John Bergsma, a Senior Fellow of The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, is Assistant Professor of Theology at Franciscan University of Steuebenville.

He earned his Ph.D. in Theology with a focus on Scripture (primarily Old Testament) at the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation explores the history of the interpretation of the Jubilee Year through the Old Testament, Second Temple inter-testamental writings, and the New Testament.

Dr. Bergsma holds a B.A. in Classical Languages, an M.Div., a Th.M. in Old Testament from Calvin College and Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

A member of the Society for Biblical Literature (SBL) and the Catholic Biblical Association, he has published scholarly articles in Biblica, the Journal of Biblical Literature, Vetus Testamentum, Sacred Architecture, and The Calvin Theological Journal, in addition to presenting papers at the Midwest and Eastern Great Lakes regional SBL conferences.

Bergsma served as acting pastor of an urban mission church in a Reformed denomination for several years while completing his seminary studies. He and his wife Dawn have five children, ages 9 through 2, and were received into the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend (Indiana) on February 24, 2001.