Dr. Harry Y. Gamble, Jr. is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he has taught since 1970, and which he has chaired since 1992.  Prior to that, he was an instructor at The Divinity School of Yale University.

Dr. Gamble was educated at Wake Forest University (B.A. English); Duke University, The Divinity School (M. Div.); and Yale University, The Graduate School (Religious Studies) (M.A., Ph.D.).

Among his awards and activities are the Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Virginia Alumni Association, 1977; Thomas Jefferson Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1983-84; Pilkington Research Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1990-91; and Chair, Association of Department Chairs, American Academy of Religion, 1995-2002.

He has lectured at University of Indianapolis, Cambridge University Faculty of Theology, Johns Hopkins University, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Southern Methodist University, Oxford Patristics Seminar, Oxford New Testament Seminar, Harvard Divinity School, Chester Beatty Library (Dublin), Trinity College (Dublin). 

Dr. Gamble has published numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals as well as three books:  The Textual History of the Letter to the Romans: A Study in Textual and Literary Criticism (1977); The New Testament Canon: Its Making and Meaning (1985; reprinted, 2002); and Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts (1995; Italian translation, 2006).

He is married to Tamara Smith Gamble, and has two children, Harry Gamble, III and Allison Gamble Kelley.