Recipient of Rev. Dr. Carlyle Adams Ecumenical & Interfaith Award
Dr. Peter Zaas was educated at the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, Oberlin College, Duke University, and the University of Chicago, where he earned the PhD in New Testament and Early Christian Literature, writing on the communication of morals in the letters of Paul. His research has focused on that author, and on the birth story of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. An inquiry to Siena College by Hayyim Kieval in 1983 led to the foundation of the Kieval Institute, whose Directorship Dr. Zaas assumed in 1991.