Philip B. Payne

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Philip B. Payne
Born
Philip Barton Payne

(1948-07-02) July 2, 1948 (age 77)
Rockville Centre, New York, U.S.
SpouseNancy Catherine Payne
Academic background
Education
Alma mater Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
Thesis Metaphor as a Model for Interpretation of the Parables of Jesus with Special Reference to the Parable of the Sower  (1976)
Doctoral advisor John Philip McMurdo Sweet
Website pbpayne.com

Philip Barton Payne (born July 2, 1948) is an American New Testament scholar and theologian whose work is centered on Christian egalitarianism. He has authored three books and published a number of articles on the topic. Payne is the founder and president of Linguist's Software, a company based in Edmonds (Washington) that develops fonts for Microsoft Windows and macOS. [1]

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Biography

Born in Rockville Centre, New York, Payne is one of the four sons of John Barton, conservative Old Testament scholar, and Dorothy Dean (née Dosker). [2] [3]

Payne graduated biology (pre-medical) from Wheaton College in 1969. After receiving his MA and MDiv in NT studies from the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, he went to Tübingen, where he studied under Martin Hengel and Peter Stuhlmacher for a year. He then received his PhD from the Selwyn College, University of Cambridge in 1976, his doctoral advisor being Rev. John Philip McMurdo Sweet. [4] Following this, Payne became a missionary for the Evangelical Free Church of America in Japan, serving from 1976 to 1984. Until 2014, Payne had sporadically taught at Cambridge, Trinity, Gordon–Conwell, Bethel, and Fuller Theological Seminary. [5]

Payne is a member of the Evangelical Free Church of America, which has declared itself to be complementarian. [6] He is also a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, [7] Christians for Biblical Equality, and the Evangelical Theological Society. [8]

In addition to English, Payne uses French, German, Greek, Hebrew, and Japanese. [1]

Research

Christian egalitarianism

Most of Payne's scholarship is concerned with the status of women in the Bible. Although initially a complementarian, Payne became convinced of egalitarianism after rereading certain parts of the Bible commonly considered misogynistic, which he thinks was motivated by his belief in biblical inerrancy. [9] [10]

In his volume Man and Woman, One in Christ, Payne argues that the Bible continuously affirms and teaches equality between men and women. [11] [12] For instance, he interprets 1 Timothy 2:11–15 as Paul prohibiting a woman from seizing authority to teach a man only in the context of a crisis of false teaching in Ephesus, which mostly involved women. [13] [14] Similar interpretations are also present in other egalitarian exegetes. [15] [16] [17] Payne also regards 1 Corinthians 14:34–35 as an interpolation, [18] a view that has gained increasing popularity among many critical scholars. [19] [20] [21]

Codex Vaticanus

Payne has published research making the case that Codex Vaticanus , a 4th-century Greek manuscript of the Bible, contains what he called distigmai-obeloi—specific symbols in the manuscript that represent additions to the New Testament text. According to Payne, these symbols go back to the original scribe of Vaticanus. [22] [23] While scholars generally accept the existence of distigmai-obeloi and their purpose, his claims regarding their originality have been severely criticized. [24] [25] [26] Payne has since publicly responded to the criticism. [27]

Bibliography

Books

Articles

References

  1. 1 2 Gargan, Edward A. (May 22, 1994). "For Mac Users, Software for Typing in Tongues". The New York Times . p. 9. Archived from the original on May 26, 2015. Retrieved September 3, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Creve Coeur Professor Killed in Japan Climb". St. Louis Post-Dispatch . July 6, 1979. p. 21. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Dorothy Dosker Becomes Bride of Rev. John Payne". Oakland Tribune . February 26, 1946. p. 8. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
  4. ↑ Payne 2009, p. 11.
  5. ↑ "Philip B. Payne". Christians for Biblical Equality . Retrieved September 10, 2025.
  6. ↑ "Where We Stand in the EFCA: Denials and Affirmations". EFCA. June 21, 2023. Archived from the original on July 17, 2025. Retrieved September 2, 2025.
  7. ↑ AAR/SBL Membership Directory. Atlanta, GA: Scholars' Press. 1996. p. 192.
  8. ↑ "Marriage and the Family: Annual Program" (PDF). Evangelical Theological Society. November 17–19, 2015. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
  9. ↑ Dow, Lois K. (2010–2011). "Book Review. Philip B. Payne. Man and Woman, One in Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul's Letters" (PDF). McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry. 12.
  10. ↑ "Mutuality Matters: (Women and Words) "I Tried To Prove Egalitarians Wrong" with Dr. Philip B. Payne". CBE International. July 7, 2023. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  11. ↑ Howard, James M. (2011). "Man And Woman, One In Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul's Letters". Bulletin for Biblical Research . 21 (3): 427–429. doi:10.2307/26424401. JSTOR   26424401.
  12. ↑ Meyer, Wilhelm J. (2010). "Man And Woman, One In Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul's Letters, Philip B. Payne". Neotestamentica. 44 (2): 381–383. hdl:10520/EJC83379.
  13. ↑ Spencer, Aída Besançon (2011). "Man and Woman, One in Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul's Letters. By Philip B. Payne" (PDF). Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society . 54: 175–177.
  14. ↑ Schreiner, Thomas R. (2010). "Philip Payne on Familiar Ground: A Review of Philip B. Payne, Man and Woman, One in Christ". The Journal for Biblical Manhood & Womanhood. 15: 33–46. Archived from the original on March 13, 2016.
  15. ↑ Keener, Craig (1998). "Interpreting 1 Timothy 2:8-15". Priscilla Papers . 12 (3): 11–13. Archived from the original on 2024-10-03. Retrieved 2025-09-03.
  16. ↑ Towner, Philip H. (2006). The Letters to Timothy and Titus. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 190–206. ISBN   978-0-8028-2513-1.
  17. ↑ Wright, N. T. (July 12, 2016). "Women's Service in the Church: The Biblical Basis". N.T. Wright Online. Archived from the original on August 10, 2025. Retrieved September 2, 2025.
  18. ↑ Critiqued in Shack, Jennifer (2014). "A Text Without 1 Corinthians 14.34–35? Not According to the Manuscript Evidence"" (PDF). Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism : 90–112. Cf. Payne 2017 , p. 618
  19. ↑ Welborne, Laurence L. (2018). "1 Corinthians". In Coogan, Michael D. (ed.). The New Oxford Annotated Bible (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 1657. ISBN   978-0-19-027607-2. Many scholars regard this passage as a later non-Pauline addition, because it disrupts the flow of the argument from v. 33a to v. 37…
  20. ↑ Hart, David Bentley (2023). The New Testament: A Translation (2nd ed.). Yale University Press. p. 345. ISBN   978-0-300-26570-5. Archived from the original on 2025-07-13. Retrieved 2025-09-03. These verses are a considerable textual problem, as they clearly constitute an interpolation that breaks the flow of the text, that seems written in a voice unlike Paul's, and that contradicts other passages in Paul.
  21. ↑ Fellows, Richard G. (2024). "The Interpolation of 1 Cor. 14.34–35 and the Reversal of the Name Order of Prisca and Aquila at 1 Cor. 16.19". Journal for the Study of the New Testament . 47 (2): 179–217. doi: 10.1177/0142064X231226165 .
  22. ↑ Payne 1995; Payne & Canart 2000; Payne 2017.
  23. ↑ Payne, Philip B.; Canart, Paul (2009). "Distigmai Matching the Original Ink of Codex Vaticanus: Do They Mark the Location of Textual Variants?" (PDF). In Andrist, Patrick (ed.). Le manuscrit B de la Bible (Vaticanus graecus 1209) : Introduction au fac-similé, Actes du Colloque de Genève (11 juin 2001), Contributions supplémentaires (in French). Lausanne: Éditions du Zèbre. pp. 199–226. ISBN   978-2-940351-05-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2025-02-16. Retrieved 2025-09-03.
  24. ↑ Krans, Jan (2019). "Paragraphos, Not Obelos, in Codex Vaticanus". New Testament Studies. 65 (2): 252–257. doi:10.1017/S0028688518000450.
  25. ↑ Fellows, Richard G. (2019). "Are There Distigme-Obelos Symbols in Vaticanus?". New Testament Studies. 65 (2): 246–251. doi:10.1017/S002868851800036X.
  26. ↑ Gordon, Nehemia; Andrist, Patrick; Hahn, Oliver; Vasileiadis, Pavlos; Calvillo, Nelson; Rabin, Ira (2024). "Did the Original Scribes Write the Distigmai in Codex Vaticanus B of the Bible (Vat. gr. 1209)?". The Vatican Library Review. 3 (2): 125–156. doi: 10.1163/27728641-00302005 .
  27. ↑ Green, Dwayne (February 19, 2025). "Codex VATICANUS distigmai and a RESPONSE from Philip B. Payne". YouTube . Archived from the original on September 2, 2025. Retrieved September 2, 2025.
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