John Wenham

John William Wenham (1913 – 13 February 1996) was a conservative Anglican biblical scholar, who devoted his professional life to academic and pastoral work.

He served as a Royal Air Force chaplain during World War II and held various academic positions throughout his career.

Wenham's academic work includes the well-regarded Elements of New Testament Greek and Redating Matthew, Mark and Luke, which examines the dating of the synoptic gospels.

Wenham was born in Sanderstead, Surrey and was educated at Uppingham School, Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Ridley Hall.

He served as a Royal Air Force chaplain during World War II, followed by his term as vicar of St Nicholas' Church, Durham from 1948 to 1953,[2] and seventeen years as vice-principal of Tyndale Hall, Bristol.

[1] Wenham had the distinction of being a conservative theologian, a defender of biblical inerrancy and 'essential infallibility',[3] and one who held to the position of "conditional immortality" – or the belief that the human soul is not by default eternal in nature; this belief goes hand in hand with the notion that sinners, once cast into hell, are at some point burned up and essentially no longer exist (a doctrine also frequently referred to as annihilationism).