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Gene Green
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Professor of New Testament
On faculty since 1996
Office: BGC 217
Phone: (630) 752-5283
Gene.L.Green@wheaton.edu
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Ph.D.
University of Aberdeen in Scotland, 1980 (New
Testament Exegesis)
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Professional and Personal Interests
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My thirteen years spent in Latin America ( Dominican Republic and Costa Rica) before coming to Wheaton provided abundant opportunity to learn how to read another culture. The first hurdle was learning survival skills in the new environs. How do buses work? Where do I get our bills? How do I go about paying them? How can we avoid getting parasites? The multitude of adjustments to the material (and microbic) culture provided constant adventures. The next valley was learning the language. Ten months of intensive daily training were just enough to bring me up to a basic level of comprehension. After gaining sufficient proficiency to understand most conversations, newspapers and broadcasts, a whole new world of confusion opened up. I could not understand the humor. Historical allusions were opaque. Reactions to some comments mystified me. My life became a repeated refrain from a Dylan tune, "There's something happening here and you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?" Poco a poco, with a little help from my friends who served as informants, I was able to crawl into the culture and begin to understand its intricacies. The moments of understanding were thrilling as each new piece of the complex mosaic fell in place. To understand meant more than learning where the post office was and finding the correct words and grammar to ask for a stamp. And now I come to Scripture, fully aware of how difficult it is to understand. I am overwhelmed by the enormity of the task of hearing the message across the temporal, geographic, linguistic and cultural gulf that stands between me and the authors and first readers/hearers. I also wonder how my understanding of Scripture is informed theologically by the people of God who have interacted with these texts for thousands of years. They have left an interpretive heritage. Moreover, I am aware that I am part of a global church which has become self-theologizing. Interpretation is not something that is undertaken solely in the West and exported to the rest. Listening to African, Asian and Latin interpreters raises new questions and makes me aware of how my own social location and perspectives influence my reading. The business of biblical interpretation is humbling, laborious and frustrating. Yet God speaks to us in his Word as he did back then, through history, and around the globe.
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- Member, Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical Research
- Member, Institute for Biblical Research
- Member, Society of Biblical Literature
Member, Evangelical Theological Society
- Member, Society for Pentecostal Studies
- Board Member, John Stott Ministries
- Member, 1989 Excavation Team, Tel Dor, Israel
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Relevance Theory and Biblical Interpretation. Editor with Ronnie Sim. SBL Symposium Series. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature. (In preparation, due 2009.)
Review of Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters and Theology, by David B. Capes, Rodney Reeves and E. Randolph Richards. Bulletin for Biblical Research (In preparation, due 2008).
“1 and 2 Thessalonians.” In Baker Evangelical One-Volume Commentary on the Bible. Edited by Gary Burge and Andrew Hill. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic. (In preparation for September, 2008.)
Vox Petri: A Theology of Peter . New Studies in Biblical Theology. Downers Grove: Inter Varsity Press. (In preparation for December, 2009.)
“Colossians [translation]” In Our New Bible. Edited by David L. Petersen and Joel B. Green. Nashville: Cokesbury. (In preparation for 2009).
Macedonian Christianity : The Spread of the Christian Faith Along the Via Egnatia. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic. (Proposal submitted, no date for submission.)
Bearing. A Midwife and a Theologian Look at Childbearing. With Deborah A. Green, MS, CNM. (No date for submission.)
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Books
Jude and 2 Peter . Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008.
The New Testament in Antiquity . With Gary Burge and Lynn Cohick. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008.
1 and 2 Thessalonians . Pillar Commentary Series. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
1 y 2 Tesalonicenses . Grand Rapids: Editorial Portavoz, 2000.
1 Pedro y 2 Pedro . Comentario Bíblico Hispanoamericano. Miami: Editorial Caribe, 1993.
Articles and Reviews
Review of 1 Peter. The Two Horizons Biblical Commentary, by Joel B. Green. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. (In press, due 2008)
“El imperio y la venida de Cristo – 2 Tesalonicenses 2:1-12.” Kairós . (In press, due 2008).
“ ¡ Patrón! La clientela en Tesalónica romana.” Kairós . (In press, due 2008).
“ 1 and 2 Thessalonians. ” New Living Translation Study Bible. Carol Stream: Tyndale House, 2008.
“Thessalonians, Epistles of the.” 5.457-60 in Encyclopedia of Christianity. Edited by Erwin Fahlbusch, Jan Milic Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, and Lukas Vischer . Grand Rapids and Leiden: Eerdmans and Brill, 2008.
“Lexical Pragmatics and Biblical Interpretation.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 50 (2007): 799-812.
“La Pax Romana y el día del Señor – 1 Tesalonicenses 5:1-11.” Kairós 41 (2007): 9-27.
“La muerte y el poder del Imperio – 1 Tesalonicenses 4.:13-18.” Kairós 40 (2007): 9-26.
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