Papers by Daniel B Wallace
Granville Sharp’s Canon and Its Kin
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society: Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, 2009
... Chief among them is Turpin Library of Dallas Theological Seminary. In particular, TeresaIngal... more ... Chief among them is Turpin Library of Dallas Theological Seminary. In particular, TeresaIngalls, the Interlibrary Loan librarian, proved invaluable for over half a dozen years. Her successor in 1993, Vada Garner, was equally competent. ...
Zondervan eBooks, 1996
... Wheeler. I have also been aided at every step of the process by librarians and libraries. At ... more ... Wheeler. I have also been aided at every step of the process by librarians and libraries. At the top of the list are Teresa Ingalls (Interlibrary Loan Librarian) and Marvin Hunn (Assistant Librarian) of Turpin Library, Dallas Seminary. In ...
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Mar 1, 2013
When a book review is particularly harsh and, in the view of the editors, perhaps unjustified, no... more When a book review is particularly harsh and, in the view of the editors, perhaps unjustified, normal editorial policy is sometimes set aside, and the author may be invited to offer a response.
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Dec 1, 1998
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Dec 1, 2009
9 FEBRUARY 1914 * 13 FEBRUARY 2007 FOUR DAYS after his ninety-third birthday, Dr. Bruce Metzger d... more 9 FEBRUARY 1914 * 13 FEBRUARY 2007 FOUR DAYS after his ninety-third birthday, Dr. Bruce Metzger died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. A member of the American Philosophical Society since 1986, Metzger was arguably the best textual critic and Bible translator ever to come out of North America. Yet Metzger was born in the wrong century. He was a Renaissance man whose epistemological modus was ad fontes. A master of several tongues, he wrote hundreds of reviews of books published in eight languages, and produced treatises that wrestled with ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Coptic. He lived by the mantra of a Chinese proverb, "The faintest ink is more lasting than the strongest memory," producing more than twenty thousand 3x5 cards of quotations and allusions (now housed at Princeton Theological Seminary), which he had gleaned from decades of research. Metzger was born in Middletown, Pennsylvania, on 9 February 1914. He earned his B. A. in 1935 from Lebanon Valley College, where he got his initial exposure to ancient Greek and the science (and art) of textual criticism. From there, he went to Princeton Theological Seminary for his bachelor of theology degree (the equivalent of a master's degree today), which he earned in 1938. He received his Th.M. degree the following year. In the same year he was ordained in what is now the Presbyterian Church USA. He earned an M.A. in classics in 1940, followed by a Ph.D. in classics in 1942, both at Princeton University. Two years later he married Isobel Elizabeth Mackay, daughter of John Alexander Mackay, the third president of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1938, Metzger had joined the faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a teaching fellow in New Testament Greek from 1939 to 1940, instructor in New Testament from 1940 to 1944, assistant professor from 1944 to 1948, associate professor from 1948 to 1954, and professor from 1954 to 1984. In 1964 he was named the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, holding that position until his retirement in 1984. From 1984 till his death he was Collord Professor Emeritus. His teaching career at Princeton Theological Seminary lasted forty-six years. As a result of this long tenure, Metzger taught more students than anyone else in Princeton Theological Seminary's history. To say that Bruce Metzger was a prolific writer is an understatement akin to saying that Stephen Hawking is a physicist. Metzger wrote hundreds of scholarly articles and book reviews, and was author or editor of dozens of books. Chief among them are his widely acclaimed trilogy on the text, versions, and canon of the New Testament: The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (first edition 1964; fourth edition, with Bart D. Ehrman, 2005); The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission, and Limitations (1977); and The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance (1987), all published by Oxford University Press. Pride of place goes to the first tome of the trilogy, for Metzger's specialty was New Testament textual criticism, a field whose primary goal is to ascertain the wording of the autographic text of the New Testament. Many considered him the finest New Testament textual critic of the twentieth century. Despite his almost superhuman productivity, Metzger's scholarship was virtually impeccable. He was known for his encyclopedic knowledge, meticulous detail, and mastery of the English language. But he was no abstruse writer; his work on the Revised Standard Version of the Bible (since 1952) and the New Revised Standard Version (1990), for which he was the chairman of the Committee of Translators (197790), is testimony to this fact. The NRSV included those books that are considered as scripture by all three branches of Christendom - Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant. Metzger was privileged to present copies of this astounding achievement to Pope John Paul II and His All Holiness Demetrios. …
Bulletin for Biblical research, 2003
The modern, broadly conservative articulation of the distinct personality and deity of the Holy S... more The modern, broadly conservative articulation of the distinct personality and deity of the Holy Spirit has often included in its arsenal a point or two from the realm of philology. The Fourth Gospel has especially been mined for such grammatical nuggets, though Ephesians, 1 John, and sometimes even 2 Thessalonians have been claimed as yielding syntactical evidence in defense of the Spirit's personality. Two kinds of texts have been put forth in support of this supposition: passages involving grammatical gender and passages involving notions of agency. Those involving grammatical gender are used as an apologetic defense of a high pneumatology; those involving agency are simply assumed to prove the point. I believe that this grammatical defense for the Spirit's personality has a poor foundation. If it is indeed invalid, then to use it in defense of a high pneumatology not only damages Trinitarian apologetics but also may well mask an emerging pneumatology within the NT.
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2020
New Testament Studies, Apr 1, 1995
This brief essay is a preliminary attempt at articulating the role of the Holy Spirit in relation... more This brief essay is a preliminary attempt at articulating the role of the Holy Spirit in relation to the interpretation of Scripture. Criticisms and interactions are invited.(It must be kept in mind, however, that I am addressing evangelicals. Those with a different theological grid will, I ...
... Wheeler. I have also been aided at every step of the process by librarians and libraries. At ... more ... Wheeler. I have also been aided at every step of the process by librarians and libraries. At the top of the list are Teresa Ingalls (Interlibrary Loan Librarian) and Marvin Hunn (Assistant Librarian) of Turpin Library, Dallas Seminary. In ...
New Testament Studies, Apr 1, 1993
... Page 2. RECONSIDERING 'JESUS AND THE ADULTERESS' 291 toward the maj... more ... Page 2. RECONSIDERING 'JESUS AND THE ADULTERESS' 291 toward the majority text theory (he cites only an article by Zane Hodges in defence of external evidence). ... (Winona Lake, IN: BMH Books, 1991) 69-102; reprinted in GTJ 12.1 (1991)21-50. Page 3. ...
Peter Lang eBooks, Jul 14, 2016
Novum Testamentum, Apr 1, 1984
... But Moule could only reply, "I confess that, whereas I still believe that the ends y... more ... But Moule could only reply, "I confess that, whereas I still believe that the ends you cite are theoretically correct, I cannot, off hand, think of actual illustra-tions in the New Testament" (CFDMoule to Daniel B. Wallace, 1 April 1978, Ridley Hall, Cambridge, England). ...
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