Nigel Watson holds degrees from the Universities of New Zealand, Cambridge and Princeton. His doctoral supervisor at Princeton was the foremost New Testament scholar, W. D. Davies. He also spent a year studying at the University of Goettingen under Joachim Jeremias and Ernst Kaesemann. After six years in parish ministry in New Zealand, he was appointed Professor of New Testament in the Theological Hall, Ormond College, Melbourne, which later became a partner  in the United Faculty of Theology. After twenty-nine years of teaching in Melbourne, he spent a year on the staff of Pacific Theological College, Suva, Fiji. He has also completed thirty-five years of service as an elder in the Presbyterian and Uniting Churches in Australia.

Nigel is the author of numerous scholarly and pastoral articles and a number of books. Since retiring from teaching, he has also written and published a number of bible study booklets, making scholarly insights of the New Testament available in everyday language for use by local study groups. Sample studies can be downloaded from this site. The booklets can be ordered either as hard copy or by downloading.

Contact Nigel on mott28@iprimus.com.au