Peter Burton is founder and Director of the Cross Institute, a Christian research and educational body, and was co-founder and co-chair of the Biblical Lexicography and the Applied Linguistics for Biblical Languages units of the Society of Biblical Literature. He has formally studied English, Latin, Classical Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Biblical Greek, French, Italian and some related languages, and has taught most of these. He has related degrees from the University of Sydney and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and is currently engaged in detailed research concerning the Greek middle voice.