Matthew Black
From Textus Receptus
Matthew Black FBA FRSE[] (3 September 1908, Kilmarnock[] - 2 October 1994, St Andrews) was a Scottish minister and biblical scholar. He was the first editor of the journal, New Testament Studies.[]
After earning an M.A. and B.D. in Old Testament at the University of Glasgow, Black then studied at the University of Bonn and returned to the University of Glasgow for his D. Litt.[] Black joined the team of Kurt Aland, Bruce Metzger, and Allen Wikgren to work on the UBS Greek New Testament.[]
He is also noted, in his An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts, for being one of the few mainstream scholars to advocate an Aramaic ur-text behind some of the Gospels.
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Categories: 1908 births | 1994 deaths | People from Kilmarnock | People educated at Kilmarnock Academy | Alumni of the University of Glasgow | University of Bonn alumni | Ministers of the Church of Scotland | Academics of the University of Edinburgh | Academics of the University of St Andrews | Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | Fellows of the British Academy | Old Testament scholars | New Testament scholars | Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | British biblical scholars
