[1][2] His area of academic expertise is the New Testament,[1] including subjects relating to The Law's fulfillment in Christ, parables, miracles, the historical Jesus, Luke-Acts, John, 1 Corinthians, James, the historical trustworthiness of Scripture, financial stewardship, gender roles, the Latter Day Saint movement, hermeneutics, New Testament theology, and exegetical methods, involving understanding the ancient's robust literary toolkit including thematic-structural chiams.
[3][1] After college, he attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois and completed an M.A.
His Ph.D. was completed in 1982 at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland under the direction of I. Howard Marshall with research on the topic of the parables in the Gospel of Luke.
He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the Tyndale Fellowship, the Institute for Biblical Research, the Society of Biblical Literature, the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, and the Committee on Bible Translation for the New International Version of the Scriptures.
Blomberg was born in a mainline Protestant family and was a member of the Lutheran Church in America.