David Aune

David Edward Aune (born November 8, 1939) is an American New Testament scholar. He is the emeritus Walter Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Notre Dame.

Life
Aune is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Education
Aune studied at Wheaton College, Illinois and in 1961 he earned a B.A. In 1963 Auned earned a M.A. granted with high honor in New Testament Language and Literature at the Wheaton Graduate School of Theology with the thesis Paul's Exegesis of the Old Testament as Illustrated by His Quotations in Romans 9-11 under the supervision of A. Berkeley Mickelsen. In 1969 he earned a M.A. in Classical Civilization at the University of Minnesota. From 1970, Aune holds a Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christian Literature from the University of Chicago with the dissertation The cultic setting of realized eschatology in the early Church supervised by Robert M. Grant.

Academic work
He taught at Saint Xavier College and Loyola University Chicago before taking up an appointment at the University of Notre Dame. On 21 October 2012 Aune was named honorary president for life of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research.

Fellow
Aune is a fellow of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (2001) and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2009).

Festschrift
In 2006, a Festschrift was published in his honor. The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune included contributions from Peder Borgen, Robert M. Grant, and Margaret M. Mitchell.

Works
Aune is the author of numerous books and articles on the New Testament and early Christianity.