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Ian Howard Marshall (12 January 1934 – 12 December 2015) was a
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New Testament scholar. He was Professor Emeritus of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He was formerly the chair of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research; he was also president of the British New Testament Society and chair of the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians. Marshall identified as an Evangelical Methodist. He was the author of numerous publications, including 2005
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winner ''
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Biography


Personal life

Marshall was born on 12 January 1934. He was the son of Ernest Ewart Marshall and Ethel Marshall (née Curran). Marshall married Joyce Elizabeth Proudfoot in 1961 and had four children. She died in 1996. In 2011, Marshall married Dr. Maureen Wing Sheung Yeung, former president of Evangel Seminary, Hong Kong. Marshall died of pancreatic cancer in 2015.


Education

* DD, Asbury University * MA, BD, &
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, University of Aberdeen * BA, Cambridge


Career

He was Professor Emeritus of New Testament Exegesis since 1964 and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He was formerly the chair of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research. He was the author of at least 38 books and more than 120 essays and articles.


Academic interests

Marshall's main interests in research were the Gospel of Luke and the
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, the Pastoral Epistles, and aspects of New Testament theology. He was particularly concerned with the work of
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as both historian and theologian. He contributed to a New Testament introduction for students and edited a revision and updating of Moulton and Geden's ''Concordance to the
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'' so that it can be used with the current major editions of the Greek New Testament as well as with older editions. In 2005 his ''New Testament Theology'' was the
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winner. Marshall was a critic of the Christ myth theory. In his book ''I Believe in the Historical Jesus'' he wrote that the idea that Jesus never existed has "failed to make any impression on scholarly opinion." His contribution to the UK television miniseries '' Jesus: The Evidence'' (Channel 4: 1984) was pitted against that of mythicist
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, prompting Henry Chadwick, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, to comment that the programmes "juxtaposed perfectly sensible scholarly opinions with opinions so outré and hard to defend on rational grounds that disservice was done to the sensible people by the company they were portrayed as keeping". Marshall had an
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theology. With
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, he believed that unlimited atonement is consistent with penal substitution. In ''Kept by the Power of God'' (1969), Marshall mentioned the possibility of apostasy. He preferred the view of
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for having fewer exegetical difficulties, point that was added eventually in an epilogue of ''Kept by the power of God'' (1995).


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