James Douglas Grant Dunn FBA (21 October 1939 – 26 June 2020),[7] also known as Jimmy Dunn, was a British New Testament scholar, who was for many years the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology at the University of Durham.
[12] For 2002, Dunn was the President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, an international body for New Testament study.
[14] In 2009 another Festschrift was dedicated to Dunn for his 70th birthday, consisting of two forewords by N. T. Wright and Richard B. Hays and 17 articles all written by his former students who went on to have successful careers in either academic and ministerial fields around the world.
In his Parting of the Ways, Dunn highlighted four pillars of first-century Judaism as monotheism, election and land, Torah and Temple.
One of the most important differences to Sanders is that Dunn perceives a fundamental coherence and consistency to Paul's thought.