Daniel B. Wallace

Daniel B. Wallace
Born	(1952-06-05) June 5, 1952
Academic background
School or tradition	Evangelical Christian and New Testament textual critic
Academic work
Main interests	New Testament authentication, early Christian writings, Koine Greek grammar

Daniel Baird Wallace (born 1952) is professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. 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. 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. He is a contributor to the Ehrman Project, a website that critiques the writings of Bart Ehrman. 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." Wallace and Ehrman dialogued at the Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum in April, 2008.

Published works

Books

• “Laying a Foundation: New Testament Textual Criticism,” in Interpreting the New Testament Text: Introduction to the Art and Science of Exegesis (a Festschrift for Harold Hoehner), ed. Darrell L. Bock and Buist M. Fanning (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006) 33-56.
• Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ with Darrell L. Bock. Thomas Nelson, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7852-2615-4
• Reinventing Jesus: How Contemporary Skeptics Miss the Real Jesus and Mislead Popular Culture, with J. Ed Komoszewski and M. James Sawyer. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2006. ISBN 0-8254-2982-X
• Who’s Afraid of the Holy Spirit? An Investigation into the Ministry of the Spirit of God Today, Ed. Daniel B. Wallace and M. James Sawyer. Biblical Studies Press, 2005. ISBN 0-7375-0068-9. Two articles in this book were written by Wallace: “The Uneasy Conscience of a Non-Charismatic Evangelical,” and “The Witness of the Spirit in Romans 8:16: Interpretation and Implications.”
• The Basics of New Testament Syntax: An Intermediate Grammar. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000. ISBN 0-310-23229-5.
• A Scripture Index to Moulton and Milligan’s Vocabulary of the Greek Testament in the reprint of Moulton and Milligan (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1997).
• Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of New Testament Greek. [ExSyn] Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.
• “The Majority Text Theory: History, Methods, and Critique,” in a Festschrift for Bruce M. Metzger entitled, The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis, in Studies and Documents, volume 46 (ed. B. D. Ehrman and M. W. Holmes; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994) 297-320.
• “Inspiration, Preservation, and New Testament Textual Criticism,” in New Testament Essays in Honor of Homer A. Kent, Jr. (ed. Gary T. Meadors; Winona Lake, IN: BMH Books, 1991): 69-102.

Journal articles

• “The Gospel according to Bart: A Review Article of Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 49 (2006) 327-49.
• “Greek Grammar and the Personality of the Holy Spirit,” Bulletin for Biblical Research (the journal of the Institute for Biblical Research) 13.1 (2003) 97-125.
• "Innovations in Text and Translation of the NET Bible, New Testament." Bible Translator (Ja, Jl Technical Papers) vol 52:3, 2001. 335-349.
• "Was Junia Really an Apostle? a Re-examination of Rom 16.7." New Testament Studies vol 47:1, 2001. 76-91.
• "Granville Sharp : A Model of Evangelical Scholarship and Social Activism." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society vol 41, 1998. 591-613.
• "Review of 'Levels of Constituent Structure in New Testament Greek.'" Critical Review of Books in Religion vol 9, 1996. 249-251.
• "Historical Revisionism and the Majority Text Theory : The Cases of F H A Scrivener and Herman C Hoskier." New Testament Studies vol 41, 1995. 280-285.
• "Who's Afraid of the Holy Spirit? The Uneasy Conscience of a Noncharismatic Evangelical." Christianity Today vol 38, 1994. 34-38.
• "A Review of The Earliest Gospel Manuscript? by Carsten Peter Thiede." Bibliotheca Sacra vol 151, 1994. 350-354.
• "The Majority-Text Theory : History, Methods and Critique." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society vol 37, 1994. 185-215.
• "7Q5 : The Earliest NT Papyrus?." Westminster Theological Journal vol 56 is 1, 1994. 173-180.
• "Reconsidering "The Story of Jesus and the Adulteress Reconsidered"." New Testament Studies vol 39, 1993. 290-296.
• “Inspiration, Preservation, and New Testament Textual Criticism,” in Grace Theological Journal 12 (1992) 21-51 (reprint of article in Homer Kent’s Festschrift [see above]).
• "The Majority Text and the Original Text : Are They Identical?." Bibliotheca Sacra vol 148, 1991. 151-169.
• "Inspiration, Preservation, and New Testament Textual Criticism." Grace Theological Journal vol 12, 1991. 21-50.
• "A Textual Problem in 1 Thessalonians 1:10 : Ek Tēs Orgēs Vs Apo Tēs Orgēs." Bibliotheca Sacra vol 147, 1990. 470-479.
• "Galatians 3:19-20 : A Crux Interpretum for Paul's View of the Law." Westminster Theological Journal vol 52, 1990. 225-245.
• "John 5,2 and the Date of the Fourth Gospel." Biblica vol 71 is 2, 1990. 177-205.
• "Some Second Thoughts on the Majority Text." Bibliotheca Sacra vol 146, 1989. 270-290.
• "Orgizesthe in Ephesians 4:26 : Command or Condition?." Criswell Theological Review vol 3, 1989. 353-372.
• "The Majority Text : A New Collating Base?." New Testament Studies vol 35 is 4, 1989. 609-618.
• "The Semantics and Exegetical Significance of the Object - Complement Construction in the New Testament." Grace Theological Journal vol 6, 1985. 91-112.
• "The Relation of Adjective to Noun in Anarthrous Constructions in the New Testament." Novum Testamentum vol 26, 1984. 128-167.
• "The Semantic Range of the Article-Noun-kai-Noun Plural Construction in the New Testament." Grace Theological Journal vol 4, 1983. 59-84.

External links

• Personal Website
• Staff page at DTS
• Center For The Study of New Testament Manuscripts, Daniel B. Wallace, Executive Director
• March 2006 Interview with Dr. Wallace regarding his text critical work
• April 2008 Interview with Dr. Wallace
• Bible.org – website where Wallace maintains and publishes writings of his own and of his students
• Choosing a Bible Translation (PDF 2.15MB) – by Wallace