Santiago Guijarro

Santiago Guijarro was born in Illescas (Spain) in 1957. He became an ordained Catholic Priest 1981 and received a Masters in Sacred Scripture - Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome (Italy) and Doctorate in Theology (Ph. D.) Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain).

Since 1996 he has been teaching at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, where he is currently Professor of New Testament. He is a member of the Spanish Biblical Association and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.

His lines of research are: 1) The Gospels: their formation process, the literary and theological orientation of each one of them, as well as their reception in the ancient Church; 2) The origins of Christianity: the first diffusion of Christianity, its roots in the Roman Empire, the practices and beliefs of the first Christians; and 3) The social sciences as a resource to reconstruct the context of the New Testament texts.