Simon James Gathercole (born 8 July 1974) is a United Kingdom New Testament scholar, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, and Director of Studies at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
[1] Gathercole completed a degree in Classics and Theology at Cambridge and then pursued doctoral research at Durham University under the supervision of James D. G. Dunn, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the German Academic Exchange Service and Hatfield College.
[2][3] He also studied for short periods at the University of Tübingen and the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York.
(2002) was a critique of the New Perspective on Paul, and focused on Second-Temple Judaism and Romans 1-5.
Since 2007, Gathercole has served as editor of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament.