Daniel B. Wallace

Daniel B. Wallace

Professor Wallace in 2004
Born (1952-06-05) June 5, 1952
California
Occupation Professor of theology
Academic background
Alma mater Dallas Theological Seminary (PhD)
Thesis year 1995
School or tradition Evangelical Christian and New Testament textual critic
Academic work
Institutions Dallas Seminary
Grace Theological Seminary
Main interests New Testament authentication, early Christian writings, Koine Greek grammar

Daniel Baird Wallace (born June 5, 1952) is an American professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and 2016 president of the Evangelical Theological Society. He is also the founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, the purpose of which is digitizing all known Greek manuscripts of the New Testament via digital photographs.

Early life

Wallace was born June 5, 1952, in California. He earned his B.A.(1975) from Biola University, and his Th.M. (1979) and Ph.D. (1995) in New Testament studies from Dallas Theological Seminary. He also pursued postdoctoral studies in a variety of places, including in Cambridge at Tyndale House, Christ's College, Clare College, and Westminster College, and in Germany at the Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Tübingen, and the Bavarian State Library.

Career

Wallace began his academic career teaching at Dallas Seminary from 1979 until 1981 and then at Grace Theological Seminary from 1981 until 1983, before returning to Dallas where he has been tenured since 1995. He published his first edition of Greek Grammar Beyond The Basics in 1996. It has since become a standard work in the field. Two-thirds of schools that teach the subject use the textbook.[1] He also served as senior New Testament editor for the NET Bible and has founded the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts.

Views

Wallace, along with DTS colleague Darrell L. Bock, has been an outspoken critic of the alleged "popular culture" quest to discredit conservative evangelical views of Jesus—including the writings of Elaine Pagels and Bart Ehrman.[2] He is a contributor to the Ehrman Project, a website that critiques the writings of Bart Ehrman.[3] Wallace critiqued Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus: The Story of Who Changed the Bible and Why for misrepresenting commonly held views of textual criticism, especially in Ehrman's view of the "orthodox corruption of Scripture."[4] Wallace and Ehrman dialogued at the Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum in April, 2008.

Works

Books

Chapters

Journal articles

References

  1. "Daniel B. Wallace – Professor of New Testament Studies". Dallas Theological Seminary. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  2. Bock, Darrell L. and Daniel B. Wallace (2007) Nashville: Thomas Nelson. ISBN 0-7852-2615-X
  3. The Ehrman Project.
  4. Wallace's review of Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus: The Story of Who Changed the Bible and Why

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