Dennis MacDonald
Dennis Ronald MacDonald (born 1946) is a biblical scholar who holds the John Wesley Professorship of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Claremont School of Theology and teaches religion at the Claremont Graduate University. He is best known for developing Mimesis criticism, a methodology that interprets early New Testament writings, including the Gospel of Mark and the Acts of the Apostles, as deliberate responses to the Homeric epics.