Michael J. Kruger

Michael J. Kruger is an American theologian and the President and the Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is ordained in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

Education
Kruger obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill followed by an M. Div. from Westminster Seminary California. His doctoral studies were at the University of Edinburgh where his advisor was Larry Hurtado. His dissertation is a study of P.Oxy. 840.

Career
During the 2009-2010 academic year, Kruger was a visiting scholar at Saint Edmund's College, Cambridge.

Thought and research
Kruger's work focuses on the Canon of the New Testament, particularly how the Christian church has historically understood which books belong in the Bible.