About

• Executive Director, Centre for Coins, Culture & Religious History
• Coin Curator, Bethsaida Excavations Project, Israel.
• Fellow, Westar Institute, Willamette University, Salem, OR.

 

Greg Jenks is an Australian religion scholar and a retired Anglican priest, whose most recent ministry role was Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton (2017–2022).

 

Jenks was awarded a PhD by the University of Queensland for his research into the origins and early development of the Antichrist myth. He has a long-standing interest in Christian origins, and is a co-director of the Bethsaida Archaeological Excavation in northern Israel. Jenks had been Visiting Professor and Scholar-in-Residence at St George's College, Jerusalem on several occasions prior to his appointment as Dean in 2015.

 

• Dean of St George's College, Jerusalem (2015–2017).
• Academic Dean at St Francis Theological College, Brisbane between 2008 and 2015.  
• Fellow of the Westar Institute, and served as its Associate Director 1999-2001.

 

His recent publications include 

• The Once and Future Bible (Wipf & Stock, 2011)
• The Once and Future Scriptures (Polebridge Press, 2013)
• Jesus Then and Jesus Now (Morning Star Publishing, 2014)
• Wisdom and Imagination (Morning Star Publishing, 2014).