David Horrell is a Professor of New Testament Studies and the Director of the Centre for Biblical Studies at the University of Exeter. 

He came to the Department in 1995 to teach New Testament studies, after completing his PhD at Cambridge on a social-scientific approach to Paul's Corinthian letters and the letter known as 1 Clement. Since then, he has continued to employ a range of social-scientific approaches in his work, which has explored aspects of the making of early Christian identity in its socio-historical context, and also contemporary interpretation of the New Testament in ethical and ecological discussion. He recently completed a major commentary on the first letter of Peter, co-authored with Travis Williams, and is currently engaged in a project exploring what it would mean to decolonise New Testament studies.