David Laird Dungan

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David Laird Dungan ( 1936 - November 30, 2008 ) was Distinguished Professor of Human Sciences and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville . He specialized in the synoptic problem . As a member of the research team of the “International Institute for Gospel Research” he was a representative of the two-gospel theory , also known as the Griesbach hypothesis.

Life

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

Dungan passed away suddenly on November 30, 2008 while working on a major multimedia book project called Images of Jesus in Cultural Perspective . His colleagues have written a commemorative publication in his honor.

Publications

As an 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.
  • together with Allan J. McNicol, David B. Peabody, Lamar Cope, William R. Farmer and Philip L. Shuler: Beyond the Impasse Q: Luke's use of Matthew: A demonstration by the Research Team of the International Institute for Studies Gospel, , Trinity Press International, 1996.
  • 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).
  • along with David R. Cartlidge: Documents for the Study of the Gospels , , überarb. and exp. Edition, Augsburg 1994.
  • 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; Reprint: Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002.

Articles and essays

  • together 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 u. a., English edition (Liturgical Press, 1998).
  • together 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 u. a., 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, pp. 671-679.
  • "Response to the two-source hypothesis", in: The Interrelations of the Gospels: a Symposium Led by M É Boismard, WR Farmer, F Neirynck, Jerusalem 1984 , Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 95 (Louvain, Belgium: Leuven Univ. Pr, 1990; Reprint: Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002), pp. 201-216.
  • "Synopses of the Future", in: The Interrelations of the Gospels: a Symposium Led by M É Boismard, WR Farmer, F Neirynck, Jerusalem 1984 , Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 95 (Louvain, Belgium: Leuven Univ. Pr, 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. by 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 Univ. Press, 1985; Reprint: 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; Reprint: 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 Univ. Press, 1983; Reprint: Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002), pp. 133-179. Reprinted in: New Synoptic Studies: the Cambridge Gospel Conference and Beyond , ed. by William R. Farmer (Mercer Uni. Press, 1983; Reprint: 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 (Oct. 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 (October 8, 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 du 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 , Vol. I, ed. by D. Miller (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Press, 1970), pp. 51-79. Reprinted in: A. Bellinzoni (Ed.): The Two Source Hypothesis: A Critical Appraisal , Mercer University Press, 1985.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Allan J. McNicol, J. Samuel Subramanian, David B. Peabody: Resourcing New Testament Studies: Literary, Historical, and Theological Essays in Honor of David L. Dungan , T & T Clark International: London 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Dungan, David Laird
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dungan, David L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven, Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2008
Place of death Tennessee