Jesus Creed

Stump the Professor

Thursday February 28, 2008

Categories: Biblical Studies

(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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Bill Crawford
February 29, 2008 9:11 AM

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)

Doug Jones
February 29, 2008 9:36 AM
http://www.perigrinatio.com

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!

Mark Vander Pol
February 29, 2008 2:14 PM
http://mvpol.blogspot.com

How about S.M. Baugh?

Doug Wilson
March 1, 2008 1:14 PM

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.

Steve Cuss
March 3, 2008 5:51 PM
http://www.cusswords.net

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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