Devadasan Nithya Premnath (born 21 October 1950), known as D.
N.
Premnath, is an Indian pastor and Old Testament scholar, who has been teaching since 1988 at the St.
Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry, a Roman Catholic seminary, in Rochester, New York.
In 1981, Premnath participated in an archaeological dig at Tell el-Hesi in southern Israel.Premnath had earlier taught at United Theological College, Bangalore the Protestant Regional Theologiate, between 1984-1987.
and has been a member of the Society for Biblical Studies in India as well as the Society of Biblical Literature since 1988 and has chaired the Asian and Asian-American Biblical Hermeneutics Group during 1996-2001.