Talk:Daniel B. Wallace

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This article was nominated for deletion on 19/4/2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

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Someone stated that Wallace is not even teaching at DTS; not true, he is presently teaching advanced Greek and exegesis of Romans.

Regarding the comment that DTS is a 'diploma mill?' Get serious.

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Keep the article! This man is a professor at a famous univerity. We need his information. (LonghornJohnny 23:04, 7 September 2006 (UTC))

You'll be pleased to know that we travelled five months into the future to count your vote. The JPS^{talk to me} 23:11, 7 September 2006 (UTC) (i.e. the voting process ended in April :P )

I will confess to being biased because Dr Wallace is my advisor at Dallas Seminary. Yet the notion that people who have had ZERO scholarly works - like Kenneth Copeland or Joyce Meyer, for example - are Wikipedia worthy but Wallace is not?

The guy has TWO second-year grammars for Greek. The first is the long edition replete with examples and commentary; the second one, called the Barney version due to its pink color, is condensed for liberal seminaries that teach Greek but do not want the evangelical commentary. His grammar is the most widely used second-year grammar out there (2/3 of the seminaries use it) - and it will last awhile because most of the old ones used the eight-case Greek noun method as opposed to the current five.

He was recognized within evangelical Christianity as an authority even before he was a tenured professor - appearing on The John Ankerberg Show on the KJV Only issue, and let's face it - some of those guys are Wiki worthy (Ruckman, James White).

He was also a student of Harry Sturz, who worked on the Majority Text. His 'significant finding' is that the number of 'distinctly Byzantine readings' Sturz argued for has been reduced from 150 to only eight; in other words, Wallace has DEMONSTRATED the proof of the Hortian hypothesis - the Byzantine text-type as a late development.

Gordon Fee is considered a textual scholar and Wiki worthy - yet Fee has not written a grammar and most folks would be hard pressed to name even one of Fee's actual works. Not knocking Fee - I like him, but it seems to me that if Fee is included, you have to include Wallace.