Matthew Black

Rev Matthew Black FBA FRSE[1] (3 September 1908, Kilmarnock[2] – 2 October 1994, St Andrews) was a Scottish minister and biblical scholar. He was the first editor of the journal, New Testament Studies.[3]

Matthew Black
Born	(1908-09-03)3 September 1908 Kilmarnock
Died	2 October 1994(1994-10-02) (aged 86) St Andrews
Occupation	Professor of Biblical Criticism and Antiquities
Known for	First editor of the journal, New Testament Studies
Board member of	President of the Society of Old Testament Studies
Awards	Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Academic background
Education	University of Glasgow, University of Bonn
Alma mater	University of Glasgow
Academic work
Institutions	Edinburgh University, St Andrews University<

Life

He was born in Kilmarnock the son of James Black. He attended Kilmarnock Academy.[4]

After earning an M.A. and B.D. in Old Testament at the University of Glasgow, Black then studied at the University of Bonn and returned to the University of Glasgow for his D.Litt.[5]

From 1942 to 1947 he was minister of Dunbarney.

From 1952 to 1954 he was Professor of Biblical Criticism and Antiquities at Edinburgh University and from 1954 to 1978 Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at St Andrews University.[6]

In 1968 he was President of the Society of Old Testament Studies.

He died in St Andrews in Fife.

New Testament Work

Together with Kurt Aland, Carlo Maria Martini, Bruce M. Metzger and Allen Wikgren, Black served on the editorial committee that established the Greek text and critical apparatuses in the standard hand editions of the Greek New Testament: the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece (26th edition, published by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft first in 1979 and revised in 1983) and the United Bible Societies' The Greek New Testament (3rd edition, published by the United Bible Societies in 1983).

Family

He married Ethel M. Hall in 1938.[7]

Works

Books

• ——— (1933). An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts. Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press. OCLC 1014663152.
• ——— (1938). Rituale Melchitarum: a christian Palestinian euchologion. Bonner orientalistische Studien. 22. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag. OCLC 230705827.
• ——— (1961). The Scrolls and Christian Origins. New York: Scribner. OCLC 5180119.

Edited by

• ———, ed. (1954). A Christian Palestinian Syriac Horologion (Berlin ms. Or. Oct. 1019). Texts and studies (Cambridge, England), new ser. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 1359355.
• ———; Smalley, William A., eds. (1974). On Language, Culture and Religion: in honor of Eugene A. Nida. Approaches to semiotics. 56. The Hague: Mouton. ISBN 9789027930118. OCLC 1183988.

See also

• Aramaic New Testament

References

1. Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF). I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. journals.cambridge.org/article_S0028688500021214 Matthew Black 3.9.1908–2.10.1994
4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. Garland, David E. (2007). "Black, Matthew". In McKim, Donald K (ed.). Dictionary of major biblical interpreters (2nd ed.). Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-8308-2927-9.
6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
7. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)