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Darrell L. Bock

{{Short description|American evangelical New Testament scholar}}

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| education = University of Texas at Austin (BA, 1975)
Dallas Theological Seminary (ThM, 1979)

| alma_mater = University of Aberdeen (PhD, 1983)

| occupation = Executive Director for Cultural Engagement and Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary

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| workplaces = Dallas Theological Seminary

| notable_works = Luke & Acts in the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament Series, Cultural Intelligence, Jesus according to Scripture, Jesus: God-Man, Recovering the Real Lost Gospel

| influences = Harold Hoehner, Howard Marshall, Martin Hengel, Otto Betz.

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Darrell L. Bock (born December 8, 1953) is an American evangelical New Testament scholar. He is executive director of Cultural Engagement at [https://hendrickscenter.dts.edu/ The Hendricks Center] and Senior Research Professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) in Dallas, Texas, United States. Bock received his PhD from Scotland's University of Aberdeen. His supervisor was I. Howard Marshall. Harold Hoehner was an influence in his NT development, as were Martin Hengel and Otto Betz as he was a Humboldt scholar at Tübingen University multiple years.

His works include the monograph "Blasphemy and Exaltation" in the collection Judaism and the Final Examination of Jesus, and volumes on Luke in both the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament and the IVP New Testament Commentary Series. Bock is a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society, and he is a member of the board of trustees of Wheaton College (Illinois). He has served as a corresponding editor for Christianity Today, and he has published articles in the Los Angeles Times and The Dallas Morning News.

Bock is known for his work concerning The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. In a response to the theological implications of the novel, Bock wrote Breaking the Da Vinci Code, his best-selling work to date. The book challenges the historicity of various extra-biblical ideas expressed in The Da Vinci Code, most notably the supposed marriage of Jesus to Mary Magdalene. He also has written many pieces for Beliefnet and Christianity Today. Bock also wrote The Missing Gospels, which argues for the existence and legitimate primacy of early Christian orthodoxy over non-canonical gospels and beliefs.

On May 17, 2006, immediately before the film The Da Vinci Code opened, Bock appeared on the TV show Nightline, talking about his book and about the movie.{{cite web |title=Dan Brown debate | website=ABC News |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1968141&page=1 |access-date=2019-08-29}} Bock has debated agnostic biblical scholar Bart D. Ehrman on whether certain epistles in the New Testament have been forged.

In 2012, Darrell Bock became the executive director of cultural engagement at the Hendricks Center at DTS. He is also a host of The Table Podcast, Dallas Theological Seminary's weekly cultural engagement show. The other hosts of the podcast are Mikel Del Rosario, Bill Hendricks, and Kymberli Cook.

For several years he has been a Guest Lecturer at the Bible Institute of South Africa's Winter School in Cape Town, as well as at numerous other institutions globally.{{cite web |title=The Bible Institute of South Africa - Principal's Report given at the Graduation Ceremony - November 2016 |work=The Bible Institute of South Africa |url=https://www.bisa.org.za/index.php/one-year-in-bisa-life |access-date=2019-08-29 |archive-date=2019-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829123415/https://www.bisa.org.za/index.php/one-year-in-bisa-life |url-status=dead }}

Works

=Books=

  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |title=Proclamation from Prophecy and Pattern: Lucan Old Testament Christology |series=Journal for the Study of the New Testament supplement series |location=London |publisher=T & T Clark |date=1987 |isbn=978-1-850-75000-0 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Jesus According to Scripture: Restoring the Portrait from the Gospels |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Books |date=1990 |isbn=978-1-585-58388-1 |pages=704 |edition=1st }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Merrill |author2-first=Eugene H. |author2-link=Eugene H. Merrill (academic) |title=A Biblical Theology of the Old Testament |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=Moody Press |isbn=0-8024-0738-2 |date=1991 |page=446 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Townsend |author2-first=Jeffrey L. |author2-link=Jeffrey L. Townsend |author3-last=Campbell |author3-first=Donald K. |author3-link=Donald K. Campbell |title=A Case for Premillennialism: A New Consensus |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=Moody Press |isbn=0-8024-0899-0 |date=1992 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Blaising |author2-first=Craig A. |author2-link=Craig A. Blaising |title=Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church: The Search for Definition |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Zondervan |isbn=0-310-34611-8 |date=1992 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Blaising |author2-first=Craig A. |author2-link=Craig A. Blaising |title=Progressive Dispensationalism |location=Wheaton, IL |publisher=BridgePoint |isbn=1-56476-138-X |date=1993 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=A Biblical Theology of the New Testament |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=Moody Press |isbn=0-8024-0735-8 |date=1994 |page=487 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Luke |location=Downers Grove, IL |publisher=InterVarsity Press |isbn=0-8308-1803-0 |date=1994 |page=412 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Luke, Volume 1 (1:1–9:50) |series=BECNT |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |isbn=978-0-801-01053-8 |date=1994 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Luke, Volume 2 (9:51–24:53) |series=BECNT |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |isbn=978-0-801-01052-1 |date=1996 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Luke |series=NIV Application Commentary |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Zondervan |isbn=0-310-49330-7 |date=1996 |page=640 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Blasphemy and exaltation in Judaism and the final examination of Jesus : a philological-historical study of the key Jewish themes impacting Mark 14:61-64 |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |isbn=0-8010-2236-3 |date=1998 |page=302 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Blaising |author2-first=Craig A. |author2-link=Craig A. Blaising |author3-last=Gentry |author3-first=Kenneth L. |author3-link=Kenneth L. Gentry |author4-last=Strimple |author4-first=Robert B. |author4-link=Robert B. Strimple |title=Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Zondervan |isbn=0-310-20143-8 |date=1999 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Can I trust the Bible? : defending the Bible's reliability |location=Norcross, GA |publisher=Ravi Zacharias International Ministries |isbn=1-930107-03-X |date=2001 |page=64 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Jesus according to Scripture : restoring the portrait from the Gospels |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |isbn=0-8010-2370-X |date=2002 |page=[https://archive.org/details/jesusaccordingto0000bock/page/704 704] |url=https://archive.org/details/jesusaccordingto0000bock/page/704 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Purpose-directed theology : getting our priorities right in evangelical controversies |location=Downers Grove, IL |publisher=InterVarsity Press |isbn=0-8308-2725-0 |date=2002 |page=114 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Bible knowledge key word study : the Gospels |location=Colorado Springs, CO |publisher=Cook Communications Ministries |isbn=0-7814-3444-0 |date=2002 |page=302 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Studying the historical Jesus : a guide to sources and methods |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |isbn=0-8010-2451-X |date=2002 |page=230 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Breaking The Da Vinci code : answers to the questions everyone's asking |url=https://archive.org/details/breakingdavincic00bock |url-access=registration |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=Nelson Books |isbn=0-7852-6046-3 |date=2004 |page=208 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Jesus in context : background readings for Gospel study |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |isbn=0-8010-2719-5 |date=2005 |page=286 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Fanning |author2-first=Buist M. |author2-link=Buist M. Fanning |title=Interpreting the New Testament Text: Introduction to the Art and Science of Exegesis |location=Wheaton, IL|publisher=Crossway Books |date=2006 |isbn=1433519224 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Missing Gospels: Unearthing the Truth Behind Alternative Christianities |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=Nelson Books |isbn=978-0-7852-1294-2 |date=2006 |page=[https://archive.org/details/missinggospelsun00bock/page/256 256] }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title= Acts |series=BECNT |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |isbn=978-0-8010-2668-3 |date=2007 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Recovering the Real Lost Gospel: Reclaiming the Gospel as Good News |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=B&H Academic |isbn=978-0-8054-6465-8 |date=2010 }}
  • {{cite book|author1-last=Bock|author1-first=Darrell L.|author1-mask=3|author2-last=Glaser|author2-first=Mitch|author2-link=|title=To the Jew First: The Case for Jewish Evangelism in Scripture and History|location=Grand Rapids, MI|publisher=Kregel Academic|isbn=978-0-8254-3658-1|date=2008}}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Gospel According to Isaiah 53: Encountering the Suffering Servant in Jewish and Christian Theology |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Kregel Academic |isbn=978-0-8254-2593-6 |date=2012 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=A Theology of Luke and Acts: God's Promised Program, Realized for All Nations |series=Biblical Theology of the New Testament |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Zondervan |isbn=978-0-3102-7089-8 |date=2012 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Who Is Jesus?: Linking the Historical Jesus with the Christ of Faith |location=Brentwood, TN |publisher=Howard Books |date=2012 |isbn=978-1-439-19068-5 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Kostenberger |author2-first=Andreas J. |author2-link=Andreas J. Kostenberger |title=Truth in a Culture of Doubt: Engaging Skeptical Challenges to the Bible |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=B&H Academic |isbn=978-1-4336-8404-3 |date=2014 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last = Bock |author1-first = Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Kostenberger |author2-first=Andreas J. |author2-link=Andreas J. Kostenberger |author3-last=Chatraw |author3-first=Josh |author3-link=Josh Chatraw |title=Truth Matters |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=B&H Academic |isbn=978-1-4336-8226-1 |date=2014 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Mark |series=New Cambridge Bible Commentary |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-1076-7767-8 |date=2015 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last = Bock |author1-first = Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=How Would Jesus Vote?: Politics, the Bible, and Loving Your Neighbor | publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1-4391-9070-8 |date=2016 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Simpson |author2-first=Benjamin I. |author2-link=Benjamin I. Simpson |title=Jesus the God-Man: The Unity and Diversity of the Gospel Portrayals |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |date=2016 |isbn=978-0-801-09778-2 |oclc=1056622121 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Simpson |author2-first=Benjamin I. |author2-link=Benjamin I. Simpson |title=Jesus According to Scripture: Restoring the Portrait from the Gospels |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |date=2016 |isbn=978-0-801-09808-6 |edition=2nd }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Ephesians: An Introduction and Survey |volume=10 |location=Downers Grove, IL |publisher=IVP Academic|date=2019 |edition=Revised }} - forthcoming June 2019
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |title=Cultural Intelligence:Living for God in a Diverse, Pluralistic World|location=Nashville, TN |publisher=B&H Academic|date=2020 |isbn=978-1-5359-8193-4 }}

=Edited by=

  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Bock |editor1-first=Darrell L. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Webb |editor2-first=Robert L. |editor2-link=Robert L. Webb |title=Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus: a collaborative exploration of context and coherence |series=Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament |volume=247 |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=2010 |isbn=978-0-802-86613-4 |oclc=635490771 }}
  • {{cite book|editor-last=Bock|editor-first=Darrell L.|editor-mask=3|editor2-last=Glaser|editor2-first=Mitch|title=The People, the Land, and the Future of Israel: Israel and the Jewish People in the Plan of God|location=Grand Rapids, MI|publisher=Kregel Academic|isbn=978-0-8254-4362-6|date=2014}}

=Chapters=

  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |chapter=Athenians Who Have Never Heard|editor1-last=Crockett |editor1-first=William V|editor2-last=Sigountos |editor2-first=James G. |title=Through No Fault of Their Own? The Fate of Those Who Have Never Heard|location=Grand Rapids, MI49516 |publisher=Baker Book House Company |date=1991 |isbn=0801025621 |pages=117–124 }}
  • {{cite book |author1-last=Bock |author1-first=Darrell L. |author1-mask=3 |chapter=Luke |editor1-last=McKnight |editor1-first=Scot |editor1-link=Scot McKnight |editor2-last=Osborne |editor2-first=Grant R. |editor2-link=Grant R. Osborne |title=The Face of New Testament Students |location=Grand Rapids, MI & Leicester |publisher=Baker Book House & Apollos |date=2004 |isbn=0801027071 |pages=349–372 }}

=Articles=

  • {{cite journal | author1-last = Bock | author1-first = Darrell L. | author1-mask=3 | title = The Son of Man in Luke 5:24 |journal=Bulletin for Biblical Research |volume=1 |date=1991 |pages=109–121 | doi = 10.2307/26422210 | jstor = 26422210 }}
  • {{cite journal | author1-last = Bock | author1-first = Darrell L. | author1-mask=3 | title = Understanding Luke's Tasks: Carefully Building on Precedent (Luke 1:1-4) |journal=Criswell Theological Review |volume=5 |issue=2 |date=1991 |pages=183–202 }}
  • {{cite journal | author1-last = Bock | author1-first = Darrell L. | author1-mask=3 | title = Current Messianic Activity and OT Davidic Promise: Dispensationalism, Hermeneutics, and NT Fulfillment |journal=Trinity Journal |volume=15 |issue=1 |date=1994 |pages=55–87 }}
  • {{cite journal | author1-last = Bock | author1-first = Darrell L. | author1-mask=3 | title = Why I am a Dispensationalist With a Small 'd' |journal=Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society |volume=41 |issue=3 |date=September 1998 |pages=383–398 }}
  • {{cite journal | author1-last = Bock | author1-first = Darrell L. | author1-mask=3 | title = Do gender-sensitive translations distort scripture? not necessarily |journal=Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society |volume=45 |issue=4 |date=December 2002 |pages=651–669 }}

As the Director of Cultural Engagement at the Hendricks Center, Bock co-authored series on cultural engagement topics called "The Table Briefing" with Mikel Del Rosario which appeared in each issue of Bibliotheca Sacra from 2012 to 2022.

=Film=

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| publisher = Distributed by Inspirational Films

| author1-last = Bock

| author1-first = Darrell L.

| author1-mask=3

| author2=Lee Strobel |author3=Gary R Habermas |author4=Josh McDowell|author5=Ravi K Zacharias |author6=Paul L Maier |author7=William A Dembski |author8=Brian Deacon |author9=John Heyman

| author10=Barnet Bain |author11=Peter Sykes |author12=John Kirsh|display-authors=5

| title = Jesus [videorecording]: Fact or Fiction ; the Jesus Film Project

| location = San Clemente, California

| year = 2003

}}

References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060627030436/http://www.sbts.edu/docs/tschreiner/review_Bock.pdf Review by Thomas R. Schreiner of Blasphemy and Exaltation in Judaism and the Final Examination of Jesus: A Philological-Historical Study of the Key Jewish Themes Impacting Mark 14:61-64.]
  • [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3817/is_200206/ai_n9124507 Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Jun 2002. Review by Joel F. Williams of Blasphemy and Exaltation in Judaism: The Charge against Jesus in Mark 14:53-65]
  • [http://publicchristianity.org/bock.html Interview with Darrell Bock on reliability of New Testament Documents] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090811061833/http://publicchristianity.org/bock.html |date=2009-08-11 }} from the Centre for Public Christianity

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