Michael F. Bird (born 18 November 1974) is an Australian New Testament scholar, theologian and Anglican priest.
In his teenage years, Bird was an atheist who saw Christianity "as a way of oppressing people, a purely human construct".
[3] He has been called by the ecumenical media platform Eternity a "heavy hitter" in the world of New Testament scholarship and Jesus's divinity.
[6] Bird has written a number of books, including The New Testament in Its World (2019, with N. T. Wright), Evangelical Theology: A Biblical and Systematic Introduction (2013) and The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus (2014).
The Gospel of the Lord won the Biblical Studies section of the 2015 Christianity Today Book Awards.