Gregory Beale

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| birth_name = Gregory Kimball Beale

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1949}}

| birth_place = Dallas, Texas, US

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| period = 1976-present

| occupation = Theologian, professor

| title = Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary

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| alma_mater = {{ubl | Southern Methodist University | Dallas Theological Seminary | University of Cambridge}}

| thesis_title = The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John

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| thesis_year = 1980

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| main_interests = Old Testament in the New, biblical hermeneutics

| workplaces = Grove City College
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Wheaton College
Westminster Theological Seminary
Reformed Theological Seminary

| 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

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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.{{Cite web|last=Duncan|first=Ligon|date=2021-02-15|title=RTS Twitter post|url=https://twitter.com/ligonduncan/status/1361329629857013764|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-02-15|website=Twitter}} He is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.{{cite web |url=https://www.gkbeale.com/about|title=About|author= |date=nd|access-date=Mar 28, 2023}} 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.{{cite web|url= http://www.wts.edu/stayinformed/view.html?id=1598 |title=Machen Chair Inauguration |access-date=2014-01-23}} At his inauguration he delivered an address titled The Cognitive Peripheral Vision of Biblical Writers.{{cite web |url= http://www.wts.edu/stayinformed/view.html?id=1612 |title= Recap of Beale Inauguration |access-date= 2014-01-23 |archive-date= 2016-03-04 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060253/http://www.wts.edu/stayinformed/view.html?id=1612 |url-status= dead }}

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

Gregory Beale began his academic journey with a BA from Southern Methodist University in 1971. He then earned an MA from the same institution in 1976, followed by a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary that same year. He culminated his education with a Ph.D in New Testament Studies from the University of Cambridge in 1981.

Positions held

Grove City College (1980–1984)
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1984–2000)
Wheaton College (2000–2010)
Westminster Theological Seminary (2010–2021){{citation|title=Gregory K. Beale|url=http://www.wts.edu/faculty/profiles/gbeale.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209115337/http://wts.edu/faculty/profiles/gbeale.html|access-date=2014-01-23|archive-date=2014-02-09|url-status=dead}}
Reformed Theological Seminary (2021–present)

Works

=Thesis=

{{cite thesis |author1-last=Beale |author1-first= Gregory K. |title=The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John |type=Ph.D. |location= Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University |date=1980 }}

=Books=

{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first= Gregory K. |title=The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John |location=Lanham, MD |publisher=University Press of America |date= 1984 |isbn=978-0-819-14290-0 |oclc= 11091372 }} – published revision of Beale's 1980 Cambridge Ph.D. dissertation
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first= Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title= The Right Doctrine from the Wrong Texts?: Essays on the Use of the Old Testament in the New |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Books |date=1994 |isbn= 978-0-801-01088-0 |oclc=31207689 }}
{{citation |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title= John's Use of the Old Testament in Revelation | journal =Journal for the Study of the New Testament | series = Supplement |volume= 166 |location=Sheffield, ENG |publisher=Sheffield Academic Press |date= 1998 |isbn=978-1-850-75894-5 |oclc= 40981843}}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first= Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text |series=New International Greek Testament Commentary |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=1999 |isbn=978-0-802-82174-4 |oclc=38096989 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first= Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=1–2 Thessalonians |series=IVP New Testament Commentary |location=Downers Grove, IL |publisher=Inter-Varsity Press |date=2003 |isbn=978-0-830-81813-6 |oclc=52509447 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God |series=New Studies in Biblical Theology |volume=17 |location=Downers Grove, IL |publisher=Inter-Varsity Press |date=2004 |isbn=978-0-830-82618-6 |oclc=54073461 }}
{{cite book |editor1-last=Beale |editor1-first=Gregory K. |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Carson |editor2-first=D. A. |editor2-link=D. A. Carson |title=Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |date=2007 |isbn=978-0-801-02693-5 |oclc=370811667 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism: Responding to New Challenges to Biblical Authority |location=Wheaton, IL |publisher=Crossway Books |date=2008 |isbn=978-1-433-50203-3 |oclc=227205757 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry |location=Downers Grove, IL |publisher=IVP Academic |date=2008 |isbn=978-0-830-82877-7 |oclc=223907846 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=A New Testament Biblical Theology: The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |date=2011 |isbn=978-0-801-02697-3 |oclc=699760262 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Exegesis And Interpretation |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |date=2012 |isbn=978-0-801-03896-9 |oclc=775419951 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Morality of God in the Old Testament |series=Christian Answers to Hard Questions |location=Phillipsburg, NJ |publisher=P&R Publishing |date=2013 |isbn=978-1-596-38852-9 |oclc=857893420 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=God Dwells Among Us: expanding Eden to the ends of the earth |location=Downers Grove, IL |publisher=Inter-Varsity Press |date=2014 |isbn=978-0-830-84414-2 |oclc=880200011 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Gladd |author2-first=Benjamin L. |author2-link=Benjamin L. Gladd |title=Hidden But Now Revealed: a biblical theology of mystery |location=Downers Grove, IL |publisher=IVP Academic |date=2014 |isbn=978-0-830-82718-3 |oclc=880199622 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |author2-last=Ross |author2-first=William A. |author3-last=Brendsel |author3-first=Daniel J. |title=An Interpretive Lexicon of New Testament Greek: analysis of prepositions, adverbs, particles, relative pronouns, and conjunctions |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Zondervan |date=2014 |isbn=978-0-310-49411-9 |oclc=874734046 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=Revelation: a shorter commentary |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=2015 |isbn=978-0-802-86621-9 |oclc=885378238 }} - a précis of the 1998 work The Book of Revelation
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=Colossians and Philemon |series=Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |date=2019 |isbn=9780801026676 }}

=Chapters=

{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |chapter=The End Starts at the Beginning (intro. chapter)|others=Benjamin L. Gladd, Matthew S. Harmon |title=Making All Things New: inaugurated eschatology for the life of the church |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Academic |date=2016 |isbn=9781493402427 |oclc=957128513 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |chapter=New Testament hermeneutics |editor1-last=Lillback |editor1-first=Peter A. |author1-link=Peter A. Lillback |title=Seeing Christ in all of Scripture: hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary |location=Philadelphia, PA |publisher=Westminster Seminary Press |date=2016 |isbn=9780998005102 |oclc=948612023 }}

=Journal articles=

{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Danielic Background for Revelation 13-18 and 17:9 |journal=Tyndale Bulletin |volume=31 |date=1980|pages=163–170 }}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Problem of the Man From the Sea in Iv Ezra 13 and Its Relation To the Messianic Concept in John's Apocalypse |journal=Novum Testamentum |volume=25 |issue=2 |date=1983|pages=182-188 |doi=10.2307/1560492 }}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title= An Exegetical and Theological Consideration of the Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart in Exodus 4-14 and Romans 9|journal= Trinity Journal |volume=5 |date=1984|pages=129-154 |url=https://biblicalelearning.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Beale-Hardening-TJ.pdf }}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=The influence of Daniel upon the structure and theology of John's Apocalypse |journal=Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society |volume=27 |issue=4 |date=Dec 1984|pages=413–423 }}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Origin of the Title ‘King of Kings and Lord of Lords’ in Revelation 17.14. |journal=New Testament Studies |volume=31 |issue=4 |date=1985|pages=618-620 |doi=10.1017/S0028688500012157 }}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=Review Article: J. W. Mealy - After the Thousand Years |journal=Evangelical Quarterly |volume=66 |issue=3 |date=1994 |pages=229–249 |doi=10.1163/27725472-06603004 |s2cid=252173456 }}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title= Acts and the Isaianic New Exodus|journal=Trinity Journal |volume=25 |issue=1 |date=2004|pages=93-101 }}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=Eden, the Temple, and the Church's Mission in the New Creation |journal=Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society |volume=48 |issue=1 |date=March 2005 |pages=5–31 }}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=Myth, History, and Inspiration: A Review Article of Inspiration and Incarnation by Peter Enns|journal=Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society |volume=49 |date=2006 |pages=287–312 }}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=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 |journal=Themelios |volume= 32 |issue=1 |date=2006 |pages=18–43 }}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=A Surrejoinder to Peter Enns |journal= Themelios |volume=32 |issue=3 |date=2006 }}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=A Surrejoinder to Peter Enns's Response to G. K. Beale's JETS Review Article of His Book, Inspiration and Incarnation |journal= Southern Baptist Journal of Theology |volume=11 |issue=1 |date=Spring 2007 |pages= 16–37}}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title= Justification and Variegated Nomism. Vol. 2: The Paradoxes of Paul|journal=Trinity Journal |volume=29 |issue=1 |date=2008|pages=146 }}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Beale |author1-first=Gregory K. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Overstated "New" Perspective? |journal= Bulletin for Biblical Research |volume=19 |issue=1 |date=2009 |pages=85-94 |doi=10.2307/bullbiblrese.19.1.0085}}

Festschrift

{{cite book |editor1-last=Gurtner |editor1-first=Daniel M. |editor1-link=Daniel M. Gurtner |editor2-last=Gladd |editor2-first=Benjamin L. |editor2-link=Benjamin L. Gladd |title=From Creation to New Creation: biblical theology and exegesis: essays in honor of G. K. Beale |location=Peabody, MA |publisher=Hendrickson Publishers |date=2013 |isbn=978-1-598-56837-0 |oclc=871022733 }}