Graham Twelftree was born in Lameroo, South Australia, into a family of wheat and sheep farmers. He studied history and politics at the University of Adelaide (BA hons.), theology at the University of Oxford (MA) and read for his PhD under James Dunn at Nottingham University. He has been a pastor in England and Australia and has taught New Testament at All Souls College of Applied Theology (London), Regent University School of Divinity (Virginia, USA), where he was the Distinguished Professor of New Testament, and then the Charles L. Holman Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, as well as the Director of the PhD program. At present he is the Academic Dean and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the London School of Theology.