(Say the Jesus Creed morning and evening during Lent.)
Here's the offer. I will send a copy of Donald McKim, Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, to the first person who can stump the professor. At what? Here's the deal:
When I taught at Trinity, I used to play a game with my students. It concerned the initials of reputable, known New Testament scholars. If they could give me the initials of a NT scholar that I didn't know the names for [which they knew], then I would buy them an ice cream at the famous White Horse Inn.
Example:
Student: "F.F. Bruce."
McKnight: "You owe me an ice cream. Frederick Fyvie Bruce."
So here's my deal: If you can come up with initials that I don't know, I will send you a copy of McKim's big honkin' Dictionary. Here are the rules:
1. The initials must be for a reputable NT scholar. (I make the decision; I'm known to be fair.)
2. The scholar must be dead. No brand spankin' new PhD in NT studies.
3. I will not look up the names in any of my books before I answer your challenges.
4. Only one guess per person.
5. I will give you until 4:00 p.m. central standard time; if I'm not stumped by then, I will give the book to my colleague, Joel Willitts.
Go ahead, stump the professor!

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Hope it's not too late for a couple from the Reformed camp:
N B Stonehouse
E P Clowney (not sure if he counts as an NT scholar - he wrote a commentary on 1 Peter for IVP)
Love this game back at TEDS - in Synoptics and NT Pneumatology...
I bought the good professor (he sported Air Jordans back then) a chocolate milkshake at the old White Horse - they made a mean THICK shake...
good times!
How about S.M. Baugh?
He's not dead (!) . . . and he's not primarily known as a NT scholar, although that was his training and focus early on . . . but E.M.B. Green might pose a challenge, Scot?
D.E.H. Whiteley.
Paul S. Minear.
T.W. Manson.
C.J. Cadoux.
Scot,
I think this means you've crossed into uber geek territory!
How about J Meggett? Not dead, as best as I can tell, but wrote a rather interesting commentary on Corinthians
Steve
P.S Thanks for all your work in making this a fantastic blog.
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