Dr. Brant Pitre is Distinguished Research Professor of Scripture at the Augustine Institute, Graduate School of Theology, Florissant, MO. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, where he specialized in the study of in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity. He is the author of several books, including Jesus and the Last Supper (Eerdmans, 2015) and Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist (Doubleday, 2011). Dr. Pitre has also produced multiple video and audio Bible studies, including The Mass Readings Explained, an exposition of the three-year Roman Lectionary (available at BrantPitre.com). He and his family live in Louisiana.
