Maurice A. Robinson

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  1. The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform 2005 (ed. Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont; Southborough, MA: Chilton Book Publishing, 2005) i.
  2. 1 2 Maurice A. Robinson, "Fifty Years behind the Text: Post-Retirement Reflections on a Career in NT Textual Criticism" (paper presented at the 68th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, San Antonio, Tex., 15 November 2016), 6.
  3. Maurice A. Robinson, "Textual Interrelationships among Selected Ancient Witnesses to the Book of Acts" (Th.M. thesis, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1975), conducted his investigation within the framework of reasoned eclecticism.
  4. Pertinent here are Maurice A. Robinson, "Eclectic Observations regarding the Current Critical Text" (paper presented at the 60th annual meeting of the ETS, Providence, R.I., 19 November 2008), esp. 1-5; ibid., "Fifty Years behind the Text: Post-Retirement Reflections on a Career in NT Textual Criticism" (paper presented at the 68th annual meeting of the ETS, San Antonio, Tex., 15 November 2016).
  5. The same skepticism is also apparent in Eldon J. Epp, with whom Robinson shared a meeting and lunch in Cleveland at the urging of Clark and whose following articles he found "strongly influential" (Robinson, "Fifty Years," 5): Eldon J. Epp, “The Twentieth Century Interlude in New Testament Textual Criticism,” Journal of Biblical Literature 93 (1974) 386–414; “The Eclectic Method in New Testament Textual Criticism: Solution or Symptom?” Harvard Theological Review 69 (1976) 211–57; “New Testament Textual Criticism in America: Requiem for a Discipline,” Journal of Biblical Literature 98 (1979) 94–98; and, “A Continuing Interlude in New Testament Textual Criticism?” Harvard Theological Review 73 (1980) 131–51.
  6. Kenneth W. Clark, "Today's Problems with the Critical Text of the New Testament," in Transitions in Biblical Scholarship (ed. J. Coert Rylaarsdam; Essays in Divinity 6; Chicago: University Press, 1968), 166.
  7. Robinson, "Fifty Years," 3.
  8. Robinson, "Interrelationships," 14.
  9. Robinson, "Interrelationships," 10, 12.
  10. Robinson, "Interrelationships," 124, 131.
  11. Robinson, "Interrelationships," 131.
  12. Robinson, "Fifty Years," 5.
  13. Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont, eds., The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform 2005 (Southborough, Mass.: Chilton Book Publishing, 2005), xiv.
  14. Robinson, "Eclectic Observations," 4-5.
  15. Unpublished bound volume. Wake Forest, N.C.: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Library, 2012.
  16. Unpublished bound volume. Wake Forest, N.C.: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Library, 2014.
  17. Filología Neotestamentaria 13 (2000) 35-59.
  18. Pages 115-45 in The Pericope of the Adulteress in Contemporary Research. Edited by David Alan Black and Jacob N. Cerone. Library of New Testament Studies 551. London: Bloomsbury T. & T. Clark, 2016.
  19. In addition to the first three unpublished papers listed below, others include: Maurice A. Robinson, "Hort Redivivus? A Critique of Gordon Fee in the Light of the Majority Text Theory" (unpublished paper distributed by the Majority Text Society, Dallas, Tex., 1979); ibid., "Scribal Habits among Manuscripts of the Apocalypse" (Ph.D. diss., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1982); ibid., "Burgon Revisited: Another Scrutiny of Vaticanus' Blank Space at the End of Mark" (unpublished paper distributed by the Majority Text Society, Dallas, Tex., n.d.); ibid., "How Many Manuscripts are Necessary to Establish the Majority Text?" (unpublished paper distributed by the Majority Text Society, Dallas, Tex., 1990); William G. Pierpont, "The Majority Text Notes and How to Use Them," in The Interlinear Bible: Hebrew-Greek-English (ed. Jay P. Green; 4 vols.; Baker Book House, 1979) 4:605-620; ibid., "What is the 'Majority Text' of the Greek New Testament?" (unpublished paper distributed by the Majority Text Society, Dallas, Tex., n.d.); ibid., "Burgon's Seven Notes of Truth" (unpublished paper distributed by the Majority Text Society, Dallas, Tex., n.d.); ibid., "Dean Burgon and the Received Text" (unpublished paper distributed by the Majority Text Society, Dallas, Tex., 1990).
  20. The Greek New Testament for Beginning Readers: Byzantine Textform (ed. Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont [Greek text and parsings] and Jeffrey Dodson [lexical data and layout]; Nürnberg: VTR Publications, 2010).
  21. Biblica 56 (1975) 231–240.
  22. Fort Worth: Calar, 1979.
  23. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981.
  24. Luther Rice Theological Journal 3 (1985) 6–16.
  25. Computer Chess Reports (Fall-Winter 1986) 114–122.
  26. Faith and Mission 13 (Fall 1996) 66–111.
  27. Faith and Mission 11 (1993) 46–74. [Issued in 1997 but back-dated 1993.]
  28. Faith and Mission 16 (Spring 1999) 16–31.
  29. TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 6 (2001). Online: http://purl.org/TC/vol06/Robinson2001.html.
  30. TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 7 (2002). Online: http://purl.org/TC/vol07/Robinson2002.html.
  31. Pages 125–39 in Rethinking New Testament Textual Criticism. Edited by David Alan Black. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002. [A summarized version of the major article published in TC above.]
  32. Filología Neotestamentaria 13 (2000) 35–59.
  33. TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 8 (2003). Online: http://purl.org/TC/vol08/Pierpont2003obit.html. [Co-authored with Ken Pierpont.]
  34. Pages 45–67 in The New Testament Text in Early Christianity: Proceedings of the Lille Colloquium, July 2000. Edited by Christian-B. Amphoux and J. Keith Elliott. Histoire du Texte Biblique 6. Lausanne: Éditions du Zèbre, 2003.
  35. Pages 533–86 [Appendix] in The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform 2005. Edited by Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont. Southborough, MA: Chilton Book Publishing, 2005.
  36. Pages 40–79 in Perspectives on the Ending of Mark. Edited by David Alan Black. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 2008.
  37. Pages 27–61 in Translating the New Testament: Text, Translation, Theology. Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Mark J. Boda. McMaster New Testament Studies 10. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.
  38. Pages 96–110 in Translating the New Testament: Text, Translation, Theology. Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Mark J. Boda. McMaster New Testament Studies 10. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.
  39. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2012. [Co-edited with Mark House.]
  40. Pages 115–45 in The Pericope of the Adulteress in Contemporary Research. Edited by David Alan Black and Jacob N. Cerone. Library of New Testament Studies 551. London: Bloomsbury T. & T. Clark, 2016.
  41. Pages 116–53 in Getting into the Text: New Testament Essays in Honor of David Alan Black. Edited by Daniel L. Akin and Thomas W. Hudgins. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2017.
  42. Filología Neotestamentaria 30 (2017): 89–119.
  43. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Region of the ETS. Nashville, Tenn., March 21, 1986.
  44. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Region of the ETS. Dayton, Tenn., March 3, 1990.
  45. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Region of the ETS. Toccoa Falls, Ga., March 8, 1991.
  46. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Region of the ETS. Collegedale, Tenn., March 1993.
  47. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Region of the ETS. Louisville, Ky., March 1994.
  48. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Region of the ETS. Mobile, Al., March 15, 1996.
  49. Paper presented at the 48th annual meeting of the ETS. Jackson, Tenn., November 21, 1996.
  50. Paper presented at the 55th annual meeting of the ETS. Atlanta, Ga., November 19, 2003.
  51. Paper presented at the 56th annual meeting of the ETS. San Antonio, Tex., November 17, 2004.
  52. Paper presented at the 57th annual meeting of the ETS. Valley Forge, Penn., November 16, 2005.
  53. Paper presented at the 58th annual meeting of the ETS. Washington, D.C., November 15, 2006.
  54. Lecture presented to the faculty of the University of Lund. Lund, Sweden, December 12, 2006.
  55. Seminar conducted with the faculty of the University of Lund. Lund, Sweden, December 13, 2006.
  56. Paper presented at the 60th annual meeting of the ETS. Providence, R.I., November 19, 2008.
  57. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Region of the ETS. Chattanooga, Tenn., April 3, 2009.
  58. Paper presented at the Canadian Bible Society's 2010 international symposium of the Centre for Training and Research in Bible Translation. Montreal, Quebec, May 25, 2010.
  59. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Region of the ETS. Wake Forest, N.C., March 23, 2012.
  60. Paper presented at the 64th annual meeting of the ETS. Milwaukee, Wisc., November 14, 2012.
  61. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Region of the ETS. Lynchburg, Va., March 1, 2013.
  62. Paper presented at the 68th annual meeting of the ETS. San Antonio, Tex., November 15, 2016.
Maurice Arthur Robinson
Born (1947-10-13) October 13, 1947 (age 76)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s) Biblical scholar, professor, textual critic
Known forByzantine-priority method of New Testament textual criticism
Title Research professor of New Testament and Greek (retired)
SpouseRenee Guscott
ChildrenJean-Paul Pierre
Academic background
EducationB.S. (1969), M.Div. (1973), Th.M. (1975), Ph.D. (1982)
Alma mater Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Thesis "Scribal Habits among Manuscripts of the Apocalypse" (1982)
Doctoral advisorJames A. Brooks