Eric is Fellow and Tutor in Theology, Tutor for Graduates and Secretary to the Governing Body. He teaches New Testament and is also responsible for supervising the tuition of theology students at Harris Manchester. His doctoral thesis was on The Jewish Context of Jesus’ Miracles, an expanded version of which was published by Sheffield Academic Press (in July 2002). His most recent book is Behind the Gospels: Understanding the Oral Tradition (London, SPCK, 2013). He is also the author of The Healer from Nazareth: Jesus’ miracles in historical context (London: SPCK, 2009). He contributed the section on 1 Peter to the Oxford Bible Commentary, an essay Reconstructing Mark: A Thought Experiment to the volume of essays edited by Mark Goodacre and Nicholas Perrin, Questioning Q (London: SPCK, 2004) and The Synoptic Problem Without Q? in New Studies in the Synoptic Problem (Leuven: Peeters, 2011). His articles include Challenging Q in Expository Times; 113 (September 2002); Meier, Miracle and Multiple Attestation in Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 3.5 (2005) and Spit in Your Eye: The Blind Man of Bethsaida and the Blind Man of Alexandria in New Testament Studies 54 (2008).