David Laird Dungan

David Laird Dungan (* 1936, † 30 November 2008) was Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He had specialized in the Synoptic problem. As a member of the research team of the " International Institute of Gospels research " he was a representative of the Two - Gospel Theory, which is also known as the Griesbach hypothesis.

Life

Dungan was born the son of Presbyterian missionaries in New Haven ( Connecticut ). By 1940, he grew up in Shanghai, then in Berea (Kentucky), where in 1953 he graduated from high school. At the College of Wooster, he received his B. A. (1957 ), at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago his Bachelor of Divinity (BD) (1963) and at Harvard Divinity School, his theological doctorate (1968). From 1967 to 2002 he was a faculty member of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. There he held biblical studies and church history courses. He was also invited at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome to lecture (1976-1977 and 2006).

Dungan died suddenly on November 30, 2008, when he was working on a larger multimedia book project, which was titled Images of Jesus in Cultural Perspective. His colleagues have written a Festschrift in his honor.

Publications

As the author

  • Constantine 's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament, Fortress Publishers, Augsburg, 2006.
  • A History of the Synoptic Problem: The Canon, the Text, the Composition, and the Interpretation of the Gospels, Yale University Press: Yale, 1999.
  • The Sayings of Jesus in the Churches of Paul: The Use of the Synoptic Tradition in the Regulation of Early Church Life, Fortress Press; Blackwell Publishers: Philadelphia 1971.

As editor

  • With William R. Farmer, Dominique Barrios -Delgado, Armando Levoratti, and Sean McEvenue: International Bible Commentary: A Catholic and Ecumenical Commentary for the 21st Century, English edition ( Liturgical Press, 1998).
  • The Interrelations of the Gospels: a Symposium Led by M É Boismard, WR Farmer, F Neirynck, Jerusalem 1984 ( Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 95), Leuven, 1990; Reprints: Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002.

Articles and essays

  • Along with Dan Deffenbaugh: " The Bible and Ecology", in: International Bible Commentary: A Catholic and Ecumenical Commentary for the 21st Century, ed. by William R. Farmer, among others, English edition ( Liturgical Press, 1998).
  • Along with John Kloppenborg: " What is the Synoptic Problem ", in: International Bible Commentary: A Catholic and Ecumenical Commentary for the 21st Century, ed. by William R. Farmer, among others, Liturgical Press: 1998.
  • " ' Eppur Si Muove ': circumnavigating the Mythical Recensions of Q, " Soundings 78:3-4 (1995 ), pp. 541-570.
  • " The Year of Living Dangerously: An East - West Dialectic, " co -authored with Linda Ehrlich, The New Orleans Film Review 19.3-4, 1993, pp. 118-124.
  • "The Two Gospel Hypothesis, " Anchor Bible Dictionary, Vol 5 New York: Doubleday 1992, p 671-679.
  • " Response to the two -source hypothesis", in: The International Relations of the Gospels: a Symposium Led by M É Boismard, WR Farmer, F Neirynck, Jerusalem 1984, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 95 ( Louvain, Belgium: Leuven Pr Univ. 1990 reprint: Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002, pp. 201-216.
  • . " Synopses of the Future", in: The International Relations of the Gospels: a Symposium Led by M É Boismard, WR Farmer, F Neirynck, Jerusalem 1984, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 95 ( Louvain, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 1990; reprint Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002, pp. 317-347.
  • "Jesus and Violence, " in Jesus, the Gospels, and the Church. Essays in Honor of William R. Farmer, ed. of EP Sanders, Mercer University Press, 1987, pp. 135-162.
  • " Critique of the Main Arguments for Mark 's Priority as Formulated by BH Streeter, " in The Two - Source Hypothesis: A Critical Appraisal, edited by Arthur J. Bellinzoni, Jr., Joseph B. Tyson, and William O. Walker ( Mercer Univ. Press, 1985 reprint: Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002), pp. 143-161.
  • " Critique of the Q Hypothesis ", in: The Two - Source Hypothesis: A Critical Appraisal, edited by Arthur J. Bellinzoni, Jr., Joseph B. Tyson, and William O. Walker ( Mercer University Press, 1985; emphasis.: Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002), pp. 427-433.
  • " Synopses of the Future, " Biblica 66 (1985 ), pp. 457-492.
  • "A Griesbachian Perspective on the argument from order, " in: Synoptic Studies: The Ampleforth Conferences of 1982 and 1983, ed. by Christopher M. Tuckett: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series # 7 (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1984; Reprints: Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002), pp. 67-74.
  • "The Purpose and Provenance of the Gospel of Mark According to the 'Two Gospel ' ( [ Owen ] Griesbach ) Hypothesis, " in: Colloquy on New Testament Studies: A Time for Reappraisal and Fresh Approaches, edited by Bruce C. Corley (. Mercer University Press, 1983; Reprints: Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002), pp. 133-179. Reprint in: New Synoptic Studies: the Cambridge Gospel Conference and Beyond, ed. by William R. Farmer ( Mercer University Press, 1983; emphatically. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002), pp. 411-440.
  • "Theory of Synopsis Construction, " Biblica 61 ( 1980), pp. 305-329.
  • " Survey of Nineteenth Century ' Lives of Jesus ', " Religious Studies Review (October 1978), pp. 113-127.
  • " Lives of Jesus Series, " review article co-written with James O. Duke, Religious Studies Review 4.4 (1978 ), pp. 259-265.
  • " Albert Schweitzer 's Disillusionment with the Historical Reconstruction of the Life of Jesus, " in Perkins Journal 29 (1976 ), pp. 27-48.
  • " Reconsidering Albert Schweitzer, " in Christian Century 92.32 (8 October 1975), pp. 874-880.
  • " New Testament Canon in Recent Study, " Interpretation 29.4 ( 1975), pp. 339-351.
  • " Reactionary trends in the Gospel Producing Activity of the Early Church: Marcion, Tatian, Mark, " in: L' évangile you Marc, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium # 34, ed. by M. Sabbe ( Louvain Univ. Press, 1974 ), pp. 179-202.
  • "Mark the abridgment of Matthew and Luke ," in Jesus and Man 's Hope, Volume I, ed. D. Miller (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Press, 1970), pp. 51-79. Reprint in: A. Bellinzoni (ed.): The Two Source Hypothesis: A Critical Appraisal, Mercer University Press, 1985.
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