Dr. Thomas P. Scheck was born in 1964. He holds a PH.D. from the University of Iowa (2004) in: Interdisciplinary Studies: Religion, Classics and Philosophy. He received an Masters of Divinity degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (1989) and a Bachelor of Arts from Moody Bible Institute (1987).

His Amazon Author Page URL is: https://www.amazon.com/author/tpscheck1964

From 2006-2022 Dr. Scheck was employed as Associate Professor of Theology & Classics at Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida. Since 2022 he has been an Upper School Latin Teacher at Naples Classical Academy, Naples, Florida. https://www.naplesclassical.org

In 1994-95 Scheck studied at Universität Leipzig: Herder-Institut and received a Zeugnis über die Sprachausbildung. Grundstufe III and passed with the Zeugnis über die Prüfung zum Nachweis Deutscher Sprachkenntnisse at the Universität Leipzig: Studienkolleg Sachsen, February 2, 1995.

From 1999 to 2004 he studied at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Thomas P. Scheck has published the following works: Books • Erasmus’s Life of Origen: A New Annotated Translation of the Prefaces to Erasmus of Rotterdam’s Edition of Origen’s Writings (1536). Translated with commentary by Thomas P. Scheck. Foreword by Richard L. DeMolen. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0813228013 • Origen and the History of Justification: The Legacy of Origen’s Commentary on Romans. Foreword by Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J. Notre Dame, Indiana: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Paperback edition, 2016. ISBN: 978-0268041533

Translations • St. John Fisher, A Defense of Free Will against Luther: Assertionis Lutheranae Confutatio, Article 36. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. Early Modern Catholic Sources, volume 12. Series editors: Ulrich Lehner and R. Trent Pomplun. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2024. ISBN: 978-0-8132-3908-8; eISBN: 978-0-8132-3909-5. • St. Isidore of Seville, Exposition of the Old Testament. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. Edited and introduced by Dr. Michael Hahn. Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic Press, 2025. • St. Jerome: Commentary on Daniel. Translated and introduced by Thomas P. Scheck. Ancient Christian Writers 77. New York/Mahwah, NJ: The Newman Press, 2024. ISBN: 978-0-8091-0670-7. • St. Jerome, Exegetical Epistles. Volume 2 [Epistles 85, 106, 112, 119-121, 129, 130, 140]. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. Fathers of the Church, vol. 148. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2024. ISBN: 978-0-8132-3827-2 • St. Jerome, Exegetical Epistles. Volume 1 [Epistles 18-21, 25-30, 34-37, 42, 53, 55, 56, 59, 64, 65, 72-74, and 78]. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. Fathers of the Church, vol. 147. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2023. ISBN: 978-0-8132-3713-8. • Pelagius: Commentaries on the Thirteen Epistles of Paul with the Libellus Fidei. Introduced and translated by Thomas P. Scheck. Ancient Christian Writers. Mahwah, N.J.: Newman Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-0-8091-0659-2. • Julian of Eclanum. Commentaries on Job, Hosea, Joel and Amos. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. Ancient Christian Texts. Downers Grove: Intervarsity, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-8308-2547-9. • St. Chromatius of Aquileia. Sermons and Tractates on Matthew. Ancient Christian Writers, No. 75. New York: The Newman Press, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-8091-0646-2. • Jerome. Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets, volume 2 [Zechariah, Malachi, Hosea, Joel, Amos]. Edited by Thomas P. Scheck. Ancient Christian Texts. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8308-2917-0 • St. Jerome: Commentary on Ezekiel. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. Ancient Christian Writers No. 71. New York: The Newman Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8091-0631-8 • Jerome. Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets, volume 1 [Nahum, Micah, Zephaniah, Haggai, Habakkuk, Jonah, Obadiah]. Edited by Thomas P. Scheck. Ancient Christian Texts. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8308-2916-3 • St. Jerome: Commentary on Isaiah; Origen: Homilies 1-9 on Isaiah. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. Ancient Christian Writers No. 68. New York: The Newman Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-0809106080 • St. Jerome’s Commentaries on Galatians, Titus and Philemon. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. Notre Dame, IN.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0268041335 • St. Pamphilus: Apology for Origen. Rufinus: On the Falsification of the Books of Origen. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. The Fathers of the Church 120. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0813201207 • Origen. Homilies 1-14 on Ezekiel. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. Ancient Christian Writers. No. 62. New York: The Newman Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0809105670 • Origen. Homilies 1-28 on Numbers. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. Edited by Christopher A. Hall. Ancient Christian Texts. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0830829057 • St. Jerome. Commentary on Matthew. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. The Fathers of the Church 117. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0813227207 • Origen. Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Books 6-10. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. The Fathers of the Church 104. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-0813220215 • Origen. Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Books 1-5. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. The Fathers of the Church 103. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2001. ISBN: 978-0813217369

Articles • “From Origen to Jerome.” (Includes a new English translation of Jerome’s Epistle 78 to Fabiola based on the Labourt text.) Chapter 2 (pp. 19-63) in: The Bible and Literature: The Late Classical and Medieval Periods. Edited by Ian Christopher Levy. New York/London: Bloomsbury/T & T Clark, 2023. This is the first volume of the series: The Bible and Western Christian Literature: Books and the Book. Edited by Stephen Prickett and Elisabeth Jay. New York/London: Bloomsbury/T & T Clark, 2023-. • “Election as Foreknowledge from Justin Martyr to Jerome.” Chapter 6 in T&T Clark Companion to Election. Edited by Edwin Chr. Van Driel. New York: T&T Clark, 2024. Pp. 111-131. • “The Influence of Origen on Erasmus.” Chapter 26: The Oxford Handbook of Origen. Edited by Ronald E. Heine, Karen Jo Torjesen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 484-504. • “Jerome’s Origenistic Exegesis of Romans 9 (Epistle 120.10 to Hedibia).” In: Hieronymus noster, Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia. Brepols. Forthcoming. • “Thomas More: First and Best Apologist for Erasmus.” Moreana 58.1 (2021): 75-111. • “Jerome’s Use of Origen’s Exegesis of Romans 9 in his Epistle 120.10 to Hedibia.” St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 62:4 (2018) 349–371. • “Origen’s Theology of Salvation.” Pp. 22-40 in: Christian Theologies of Salvation: A Comparative Introduction. Edited by Justin S. Holcomb. New York: New York University Press, 2017. • “Law: In the Patristic Era.” In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 15. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017. • “Justification: Greek and Latin Patristics.” In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 14 Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017. • “Origen.” Ch. 47 (pp. 943-58) in: The Early Christian World. 2nd Edition. Edited by Philip F. Esler. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2017. • “Jerome. Christianity. Patristics and Orthodox Churches.” In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 13. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2016. • “Gospel Prologues.” In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 10. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014. • “Bishop John Fisher’s Response to Martin Luther.” Franciscan Studies 71 (2013) 463-509. • “Origen’s Interpretation of Romans.” In: A Companion to St. Paul in the Middle Ages. Edited by Steven R. Cartwright. Leiden: Brill, 2013. 15-49. • “Pelagius’s Interpretation of Romans.” In: A Companion to St. Paul in the Middle Ages. Edited by Steven R. Cartwright. Leiden: Brill, 2013. 79-113. • “Humanitas in Cicero’s Moral Philosophy and its Christian Reception.” Ave Maria Law Review 10.2 (2012) 405- 415. • “Erasmus’s Edition of Origen.” In: Tradition and the Rule of Faith: Festschrift for Joseph T. Lienhard. Eds. R. Rombs and E. Hwang. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2010. 308-336. • “The Polemics of John Heigham and Richard Montagu and the Rise of English Arminianism.” Recusant History (May 2008) 12-27. • “Walter Bauer’s Rechtgläubigkeit und Ketzerei im ältesten Christentum.” Reviewed by Walther Völker. Introduced, translated and annotated by Thomas P. Scheck. Journal of Early Christian Studies 14.4 (2006) 399-405. • “William of St. Thierry’s Reception of Origen’s Exegesis of Romans.” Adamantius 10 (2004) 238-258. • “Law.” In: The Westminster Handbook to Origen. John A. McGuckin, ed.. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004) 138-40. • “Justification by Faith Alone in Origen’s Commentary on Romans and its Reception During the Reformation Era.” In: Origeniana Octava: Origen and the Alexandrian Tradition. Papers of the 8th International Origen Congress, Pisa, 27-31 August 2001, 2 vols., ed. L. Perrone (Louvain: Peeters, 2003), Vol. 2, 1277-1288.