Career
He is Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Osborne has degrees from Fort Wayne Bible College, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and the University of Aberdeen. Osborne specialises in biblical hermeneutics.
He is best known for his concept of the "hermeneutical spiral", denoting an "upward and constructive process of moving from earlier pre-understanding to fuller understanding, and the returning back to check and to review the need for correction or change in this preliminary understanding.".
