Sean M. McDonough (born in 1964) is an American professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, and Chair of the Biblical Studies Department at Pacific Theological College.

[1][2] McDonough earned a Bachelor of Arts at Harvard College.

[3] From 1997, he holds a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, with his doctoral dissertation YHWH at Patmos Rev.

[2][3] From 1997 to 2000 he taught at the Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji, where he served as Lecturer in New Testament.

Since 2000, he has taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, where he is associate professor of New Testament and the Chair of the Biblical Studies Department.