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- William Ronald George Loader (born 1944) is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and emeritus professor of New Testament at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. From 1978, Loader was New Testament lecturer at the Perth Theological Hall of the Uniting Church in Australia; from 1986, he was lecturer and later Professor of New Testament at Murdoch University (1998-2003 also as Head of the School of Social Inquiry). Loader was the editor of Colloquium, the journal of the (ANZSTS), until 2005. He undertook a five-year Australian Research Council professorial fellowship on "Attitudes towards Sexuality in Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic Greco-Roman Era", 2005-2010. Loader's academic degrees and qualifications are:
* BA (Auckl) - Bachelor or Arts (classics) (1966), University of Auckland, New Zealand
* Ministerial education (1964–1967) at , Auckland
* BD (Otago) - Bachelor of Divinity (1969), University of Otago, New Zealand
* Dr theol - Doctor of Theology (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (1972), Mainz, Germany) - Supervisor: Ferdinand Hahn; Dissertation published in revised form in 1981: Sohn und Hoherpriester. Eine traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zur Christologie des Hebräerbriefes, WMANT 53 (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1981) (en)
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