David Kaylor
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| name = R. David Kaylor
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|10|01}}
| birth_place = New Market, Alabama, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|04|20|1933|10|01}}
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| title = James Sprunt Professor of Religion
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| alma_mater = Duke University
| thesis_title = The Ascension Motif in Luke-Acts, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the Fourth Gospel
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| thesis_year = 1964
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| workplaces = Davidson College
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| notable_works = Jesus the Prophet: His Vision of the Kingdom on Earth
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Robert David Kaylor (October 1, 1933 – April 20, 2022) was an American New Testament scholar who was James Sprunt Professor of Religion at Davidson College. Born in New Market, Alabama, he obtained his PhD at Duke University.{{Cite web |url=http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x10131.xml |title=Davidson Faculty Emeriti |access-date=2012-10-20 |archive-date=2012-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716020443/http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x10131.xml |url-status=dead }} Kaylor died on April 20, 2022, at the age of 88.{{cite web |last1=Pope |first1=Mary Beth |title=Robert David Kaylor |url=https://inmemoriam.davidson.edu/2022/04/david-kaylor/ |website=Davidson College |access-date=14 December 2024 |date=20 April 2022}}
In his book, Jesus the Prophet: His Vision of the Kingdom on Earth, Kaylor argues that Jesus was a social and political reformer who was driven by a desire to return a supposed pre-monarchical egalitarianism.Andreas J. Köstenberger et al., [https://books.google.com/books?id=g-MG9sFLAz0C&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120 The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament], p. 120.
Works
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- {{cite thesis|author1-last=Kaylor |author1-first=R. David |title=The Ascension Motif in Luke-Acts, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the Fourth Gospel |type=Ph.D. |publisher=Duke University |date=1964 |oclc=12495285 }}
=Books=
- {{cite book|author1-last=Kaylor |author1-first=R. David |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Venkatachari |author2-first=K. K. A. |author2-link=K. K. A. Venkatachari |title=God far, God near: an interpretation of the thought of Nammāl̲vār |series=Ananthacharya Indological Research institute series (Supplement) |volume=5 |location=Bombay |publisher=Ananthacharya Indological Research Institute |date=1981 |oclc=17380213 }}
- {{cite book |author1-last=Kaylor |author1-first=R. David |author1-mask=3 |title=Paul's Covenant Community: Jew and Gentile in Romans |location=Atlanta, GA |publisher=John Knox Press |date=1988 |isbn=9780804202206 |oclc=17775652 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/paulscovenantcom0000kayl }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Kaylor |author1-first=R. David |author1-mask=3 |title=Jesus the Prophet: His Vision of the Kingdom on Earth |location=Louisville, KY |publisher=Westminster/John Knox Press |date=1994 |isbn=9780664255053 |oclc=28723449 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Kaylor |author1-first=R. David |author1-mask=3 |title=Who is the Christ?: as answered in the Epistles |series=Horizons Bible study, 1994-95 |location=Louisville, KY |publisher=Horizons, for Presbyterian Women, Presbyterian Church (USA) |date=1994 |oclc=30491495 }}
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