Gregory K. Beale | |
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Born | 1949 (age 67–68) Dallas, Texas |
Residence | Pennsylvania |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Theologian, professor |
Years active | 1976- |
Title | Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary |
Academic background | |
Education | Southern Methodist University, Dallas Theological Seminary |
Alma mater | Cambridge University |
Thesis title | The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John |
Thesis year | 1980 |
Academic work | |
Era | Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries |
Institutions |
Grove City College Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Wheaton College Westminster Theological Seminary |
Main interests | Old Testament in the New, Biblical hermeneutics |
Notable works | The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text, A New Testament Biblical Theology: The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New |
Gregory K. Beale (born 1949 in Dallas, Texas) (also known as G. K. Beale) is a biblical scholar, currently a Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He has made a number of contributions to conservative Biblical hermeneutics, particularly in the area of the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament. He served as the president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 2004. In 2013, he was elected by Westminster Theological Seminary to be the first occupant of the J. Gresham Machen Chair of New Testament. At his inauguration he delivered an address titled The Cognitive Peripheral Vision of Biblical Writers.