George Raymond Beasley-Murray (October 10, 1916 – 23 February 2000) was an

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and prominent

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scholar, Principal of

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, London, and later Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is known particularly for what became the standard work o
Baptism in the New Testament
(1962), and his major study o
Jesus and the Kingdom of God
(1986). He received his D.D. from

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Life

Beasley-Murray was born in London, and studied at

. He served as pastor of Ashurst Drive Baptist Church, while also studying at

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. Beasley-Murray taught at the

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, Switzerland before becoming principal of Spurgeon's College in 1958. He served in this role until 1973, when he became James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a post he held until 1980. In 1988, a ''

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'' was published in his honour. ''Eschatology and the New Testament: Essays in Honor of George Raymond Beasley-Murray'' included contributions from R. E. Clements,

James D. G. Dunn James Douglas Grant Dunn (21 October 1939 – 26 June 2020), also known as Jimmy Dunn, was a British New Testament scholar, who was for many years the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology at the University of Durha ...

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, C. K. Barrett, Ralph P. Martin and I. Howard Marshall.

Works

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Jesus College, Cambridge obituary written by his son.
British Christian writers 1916 births 2000 deaths British evangelicals British biblical scholars 20th-century English Baptist ministers Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Alumni of King's College London Alumni of the University of London Southern Baptist Theological Seminary faculty New Testament scholars Bible commentators 20th-century Christian biblical scholars Baptist biblical scholars {{christian-theologian-stub