Robert RheaRobert Rhea is a graduate of Davidson College, Union Theological Seminary, New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and studied in Germany and Austria at the University of Marburg, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the Evanelisch-Theologische Fakultaet of the University of Vienna. He studied in Marburg with Georg Werner Kuemmel and Werner Vordtriede in Munich. At Union Theological Seminary he wrote a thesis entitled, ""The Johannine Son of Man,"" for professors James L. Martyn and Raymond E. Brown which was published in 1990 by Oscar Cullmann as volume 76 of his ATHANT series. With this exegetical work he demonstrated that the title very possibly originated in the Hebrew prophetic tradition, not Jewish apocalyptic literature. Furthermore, as a likely spiritual and also prophetic designation it could be related to earlier Hebrew eschatological but not apocalyptic expectations. During the autumn of 1989 Rhea entered the graduate school at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, to study Hebrew Bible. His brief study on Zech 13:1-6 was published by the Zeitschrift fuer Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Berlin. After coordinating with Austrian archaeologists who were digging at the so-called Tomb of Luke in Ephesos for new evidence that could prove this to be the tomb of the Beloved Disciple, Rhea matriculated at the Evangelish-Theologische Fakultaet of the University of Vienna, Austria. Upon completion of the course work for entrance to the doctoral exams, he spent some two years with the research of the Baptism of Jesus for Professor Wilhelm Pratscher. He focused on the Johannine account of the relationship between John the Baptist and Jesus and concluded that Jesus was not baptized by the Baptist. Read More Read Less