Gregory Beale Explained

Gregory Kimball Beale
Birth Name:	Gregory Kimball Beale
Birth Place:	Dallas, Texas, US
Period:	1976-present
Occupation:	Theologian, professor
Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary
Era:	Late 20th and early 21st centuries
Thesis Title:	The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John
Thesis Year:	1980
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 Kimball Beale (born February 10, 1949, in Dallas, Texas; also known as G. K. Beale) is a biblical scholar, currently a Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas.^[1] He is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.^[2] 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 and is one of the most influential and prolific active New Testament scholars in the world. 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.^[3] At his inauguration he delivered an address titled The Cognitive Peripheral Vision of Biblical Writers.^[4]

In 2013, a Festschrift was published in his honor, called From Creation to New Creation: Biblical Theology and Exegesis. It included contributions by Richard J. Bauckham, Daniel I. Block, C. Hassell Bullock, D. A. Carson, Douglas J. Moo, and David F. Wells.

Education

• Ph.D, University of Cambridge, 1981
• Th.M, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1976
• MA, Southern Methodist University, 1976
• BA, Southern Methodist University, 1971

Positions held

• Grove City College (1980–1984)
• Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1984–2000)
• Wheaton College (2000–2010)
• Westminster Theological Seminary (2010–2021)
• Reformed Theological Seminary (2021–present)

Works

Thesis

• Beale . Gregory K. . The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John . Ph.D. . Cambridge . Cambridge University . 1980 .

Books

• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John . Lanham, MD . University Press of America . 1984 . 978-0-819-14290-0 . 11091372 . – published revision of Beale's 1980 Cambridge Ph.D. dissertation
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . The Right Doctrine from the Wrong Texts?: Essays on the Use of the Old Testament in the New . Grand Rapids, MI . Baker Books . 1994 . 978-0-801-01088-0 . 31207689 .
  • Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text . . Grand Rapids, MI . Eerdmans . 1999 . 978-0-802-82174-4 . 38096989 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . 1–2 Thessalonians . IVP New Testament Commentary . Downers Grove, IL . Inter-Varsity Press . 2003 . 978-0-830-81813-6 . 52509447 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God . New Studies in Biblical Theology . 17 . Downers Grove, IL . Inter-Varsity Press . 2004 . 978-0-830-82618-6 . 54073461 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . Carson . D. A. . D. A. Carson . Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament . Grand Rapids, MI . Baker Academic . 2007 . 978-0-801-02693-5 . 370811667 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism: Responding to New Challenges to Biblical Authority . Wheaton, IL . Crossway Books . 2008 . 978-1-433-50203-3 . 227205757 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry . Downers Grove, IL . IVP Academic . 2008 . 978-0-830-82877-7 . 223907846 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . A New Testament Biblical Theology: The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New . Grand Rapids, MI . Baker Academic . 2011 . 978-0-801-02697-3 . 699760262 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Exegesis And Interpretation . Grand Rapids, MI . Baker Academic . 2012 . 978-0-801-03896-9 . 775419951 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . The Morality of God in the Old Testament . Christian Answers to Hard Questions . Phillipsburg, NJ . P&R Publishing . 2013 . 978-1-596-38852-9 . 857893420 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . God Dwells Among Us: expanding Eden to the ends of the earth . Downers Grove, IL . Inter-Varsity Press . 2014 . 978-0-830-84414-2 . 880200011 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . Gladd . Benjamin L. . Benjamin L. Gladd . Hidden But Now Revealed: a biblical theology of mystery . Downers Grove, IL . IVP Academic . 2014 . 978-0-830-82718-3 . 880199622 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . Ross . William A. . Brendsel . Daniel J. . An Interpretive Lexicon of New Testament Greek: analysis of prepositions, adverbs, particles, relative pronouns, and conjunctions . Grand Rapids, MI . Zondervan . 2014 . 978-0-310-49411-9 . 874734046 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . Revelation: a shorter commentary . Grand Rapids, MI . Eerdmans . 2015 . 978-0-802-86621-9 . 885378238 . - a précis of the 1998 work The Book of Revelation
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . Colossians and Philemon . Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament . Grand Rapids, MI . Baker Academic . 2019 . 9780801026676 .

Chapters

• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . The End Starts at the Beginning (intro. chapter). Benjamin L. Gladd, Matthew S. Harmon . Making All Things New: inaugurated eschatology for the life of the church . Grand Rapids, MI . Baker Academic . 2016 . 9781493402427 . 957128513 .
• Book: Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . New Testament hermeneutics . Lillback . Peter A. . Peter A. Lillback . Seeing Christ in all of Scripture: hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary . Philadelphia, PA . Westminster Seminary Press . 2016 . 9780998005102 . 948612023 .

Journal articles

• Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . The Danielic Background for Revelation 13-18 and 17:9 . . 31 . 1980. 163–170 .
• Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . The influence of Daniel upon the structure and theology of John's Apocalypse . . 27 . 4 . Dec 1984. 413–423 .
• Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . Review Article: J. W. Mealy - After the Thousand Years . . 66 . 3 . 1994 . 229–249 . 10.1163/27725472-06603004 . 252173456 .
• Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . Eden, the Temple, and the Church's Mission in the New Creation . Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society . 48 . 1 . March 2005 . 5–31 .
• Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . Myth, History, and Inspiration: A Review Article of Inspiration and Incarnation by Peter Enns. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society . 49 . 2006 . 287–312 .
• Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . A Surrejoinder to Peter Enns's Response to G. K. Beale's JETS Review Article of His Book, Inspiration and Incarnation . . 11 . 1 . Spring 2007 . 16–37.
• Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . Did Jesus and the Apostles Preach the Right Doctrine from the Wrong Texts? Revisiting the Debate Seventeen Years Later in the Light of Peter Enns's Book, Inspiration and Incarnation . . 32 . 1 . 2006 . 18–43 .
• Beale . Gregory K. . 3 . A Surrejoinder to Peter Enns . Themelios . 32 . 3 . 2006 .

Festschrift

• Book: Gurtner . Daniel M. . Daniel M. Gurtner . Gladd . Benjamin L. . Benjamin L. Gladd . From Creation to New Creation: biblical theology and exegesis: essays in honor of G. K. Beale . Peabody, MA . Hendrickson Publishers . 2013 . 978-1-598-56837-0 . 871022733 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Duncan. Ligon. 2021-02-15. RTS Twitter post. 2021-02-15. Twitter.
2. Web site: About. . nd. Mar 28, 2023.
3. Web site: Machen Chair Inauguration . 2014-01-23.
4. Web site: Recap of Beale Inauguration . 2014-01-23 . 2016-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060253/http://www.wts.edu/stayinformed/view.html?id=1612 . dead .