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Daniel Baird Wallace (born June 5, 1952) is an American professor of New Testament Studies at
Dallas Theological Seminary Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) is an evangelical theology, theological seminary in Dallas, Texas. It is known for popularizing the theological system dispensationalism. DTS has campuses in Dallas, Houston, and Washington, D.C., as well as cont ...
. He is also the founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of
New Testament The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christ ...
Manuscripts, the purpose of which is digitizing all known Greek manuscripts of the
New Testament The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christ ...
via digital photographs.


Early life

Wallace was born in June 1952, in
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. He earned his
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(1975) from
Biola University Biola University () is a private, nondenominational, evangelical Christian university in La Mirada, California. It was founded in 1908 as the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. It has over 150 programs of study in nine schools offering bachelor's, ...
, and his
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(1979) and
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(1995) in New Testament studies from
Dallas Theological Seminary Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) is an evangelical theology, theological seminary in Dallas, Texas. It is known for popularizing the theological system dispensationalism. DTS has campuses in Dallas, Houston, and Washington, D.C., as well as cont ...
. He also pursued postdoctoral studies in a variety of places, including in
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at
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, Christ's College,
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, and Westminster College, in Germany at the
Institute for New Testament Textual Research The Institute for New Testament Textual Research (german: Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung — INTF) at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, is to research the textual history of the New Testament and to reconstruct its G ...
,
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, and the
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, and in Greece at the National Library in Athens.


Career

Wallace began his academic career teaching at
Dallas Seminary Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) is an evangelical theological seminary in Dallas, Texas. It is known for popularizing the theological system dispensationalism. DTS has campuses in Dallas, Houston, and Washington, D.C., as well as extension cam ...
from 1979 until 1981 and then at
Grace Theological Seminary Grace Theological Seminary (GTS) is a conservative evangelical Christian seminary located in Winona Lake, Indiana. GTS is now part of Grace College & Seminary and is associated with Charis Fellowship, before 2018 known as the Fellowship of Grace B ...
from 1981 until 1983, before returning to
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where he has been tenured since 1995. He published his first edition of ''Greek Grammar Beyond The Basics'' in 1996. It has since become a standard work in the field and has been translated into half a dozen languages. Two-thirds of schools that teach the subject use the textbook. He also has served as senior
New Testament The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christ ...
editor for the
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and has founded the
Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to digitally preserve Greek New Testament manuscripts. Toward that end, CSNTM takes digital photographs of manuscripts at institu ...
. In 2016 he was the president of the
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. In 2019 he joined the Committee on Bible Translation which is responsible for the NIV.


Views

Wallace, along with DTS colleague
Darrell L. Bock Darrell L. Bock (born December 12, 1953) is an American evangelical Christian New Testament scholar. He is Executive Director of Cultural Engagement aThe Hendricks Centerand Senior Research Professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological S ...
, has been an outspoken critic of the alleged "popular culture" quest to discredit conservative
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views of Jesus—including the writings of
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and
Bart Ehrman Bart Denton Ehrman (born 1955) is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He has written and edited 30 books, including t ...
. He is a contributor to the Ehrman Project, a website that critiques the writings of Bart Ehrman. Wallace critiqued Ehrman's ''Misquoting Jesus: The Story of Who Changed the Bible and Why'' for misrepresenting commonly held views of
textual criticism Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in ...
, especially in Ehrman's view of the "orthodox corruption of Scripture." Wallace and Ehrman dialogued at the Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum in April 2008, at Southern Methodist University in October 2011, and again at UNC Chapel Hill in February 2012. Wallace is a Presbyterian and a soft cessationist.


"First Century Mark"

In 2012 Wallace claimed that a recently identified papyrus fragment of the Gospel of Mark had been definitively dated by a leading paleographer to the late first century, and would shortly be published by E.J. Brill. The fragment might consequently be the earliest surviving Christian text. This claim resulted in widespread speculation on social media and in the press as to the fragment's content, provenance, and date, exacerbated by Wallace's inability to give any further details due to a
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. The fragment, designated ''
Papyrus 137 Papyrus 137 (in the Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland, Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓137, is an early fragment of the New Testament in Greek language, Greek. The fragment is from a codex, written on both sides with text from the firs ...
'' and subsequently dated by its editors to the later 2nd or earlier 3rd century, was eventually published in 2018, in the series of
Oxyrhynchus Papyri The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (, mo ...
LXXXIII. After the publication, Daniel Wallace confirmed that Papyrus 137 was indeed the fragment that he had been referring to, and that he had signed a non-disclosure agreement at the request of
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, then representing the
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in its efforts to purchase this particular fragment; efforts that proved unavailing, as all the time it had been in the ownership of the
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, and had not legitimately been offered for sale.


Works


Books

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Chapters

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Journal articles

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References


Further reading

* "The Bible Hunters," ''
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'' (Dec. 2018), pp. 70–75.


External links

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