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Overview
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| Gregory Beale
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Kenneth T. Wessner Chair of Biblical Studies
Professor of New Testament
On faculty since 2000
Office: BGC 276
Phone: (630) 752-5280
Email: G.K.Beale@wheaton.edu
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Ph.D. - Divinity, University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England (concentrated in Greek and Hebrew exegesis) 1981.
Th.M. - Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. (concentrated in Greek, Hebrew, biblical and theological studies; graduated with honors in the Department of Semitics and Old Testament) 1976.
M.A. - History, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. (concentration in Augustinian and Reformation studies) 1976.
B.A. - Humanities at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. (majored in Philosophy and History) 1971.
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Professional and Personal Interests
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Prior to joining the Wheaton Graduate School faculty in the Fall of 2000, Dr. Beale served as a guest assistant and assistant professor of Biblical studies in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania (from 1980 to 1984). There he taught courses in Old Testament, New Testament, and theology. He left Grove City College to become respectively an Assistant, Associate and full Professor of New Testament at Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary from 1984 to Spring of 2000.
Dr. Beale was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He is married to Mary Dorinda Beale and has three children: Stephen, Nancy and Hannah. He is ordained in the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference.
He enjoys baroque music, New England and English countryside, antique hunting, and aspires to become a gardener. His current projects are listed below, falling within his fields of interest, namely, the use of the Old Testament in the New, Pauline studies, Eschatology, Biblical Theology, and Apocalyptism.
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- Principles of Interpretation (Hermeneutics)
- The Use of the O.T. in the N.T.
- First Semester of First Year NT Greek
- Biblical Theology
- Greek Exegesis of Ephesians
- Greek Exegesis of Revelation
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- Evangelical Theological Society
- President (2004)
- President-Elect, Program Chair (2004)
- Executive Committee (2005, 2002)
- Institute for Biblical Research
- Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas
- Society of Biblical Literature
- Tyndale Fellowship
- Elected as Visiting Fellow, St. Edmunds College, Cambridge, England -(March, 2005)
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- Apocalyptism
- Pauline Theology
- Biblical Theology
- Use of the Old Testament in the New
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John's Use of the Old Testament in Revelation. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 166. Sheffield: JSOT Press; 1999). 400 pages.
The Book of Revelation. New International Greek Testament Commentary Series; ed. by I. H. Marshall and D. Hagner; Grand Rapids, USA/Cambridge, England: Eerdmans and Carlisle: Paternoster, 1998. 1245 pages
Editor of Right Doctrine From Wrong Texts? Essays on the Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1994. 440 pages.
The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John. University Press of America, 1984; 349 pp.
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