Darrell L. Bock | |
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Born | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | December 8, 1953
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Executive Director for Cultural Engagement and Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Aberdeen (Ph.D.) University of Texas at Austin (Bachelor's) |
Influences | Harold Hoehner, Howard Marshall, Martin Hengel, Otto Betz. |
Academic work | |
Discipline | New Testament studies |
Sub-discipline | Lukan scholar |
Institutions | Dallas Theological Seminary |
Main interests | Lukan studies |
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 |
Darrell L. Bock (born December 8,1953) is an American evangelical New Testament scholar. He is executive director of Cultural Engagement at 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. [1] 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. [2]
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: CS1 maint: location (link)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.
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