Background
BLACK, Matthew was born on September 3, 1908 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Son of James Black and Ellen Black.
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The New Testament was preserved in Greek, but the events narrated in the Gospels and part of Acts took place in a largely Aramaic-speaking environment. Matthew Black therefore begins with the hypothesis that the material contained in these books was spoken or written in Aramaic. Black surveys the New Testament for Aramaic grammatical features (syntax, grammar, and vocabulary), poetic features (parallelism, alliteration), and other linguistic evidence that the New Testament text was translated from Aramaic. He uses this approach to shed light on difficult passages from the Gospels and Acts. Black s foundational work, which continues to be the starting point for any study of Aramaic and the New Testament, is enhanced by a new introduction from Craig A. Evans. Evans places Black s work in the context of related scholarly studies, provides extensive resources for further study of Aramaic and its significance for New Testament studies, and discusses the criteria best used when consulting the Targumim in New Testament interpretation.
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BLACK, Matthew was born on September 3, 1908 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Son of James Black and Ellen Black.
He attended Kilmarnock Academy. And Bachelor of Divinity 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 Doctor of Literature
He was the first editor of the journal, New Testament Studies. After earning an Master of Arts 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 Street Andrews University.
In 1968 he was President of the Society of Old Testament Studies.
He died in Street Andrews in Fife. 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).
Baylor University in Waco, Texas holds Mathew Black"s personal library. Baylor purchased the collection from Reverend Black in the late 1980s under the agreement the books would be delivered upon Black"s death.
While the collection was not kept physically together, there is a note on each bibliographic record listing important information.
The Scholar"s Collection (housed in Baylor"s main library, Moody) contains Professor Black"s papers.
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Royal Swedish Society of Sciences of Uppsala. Gottingen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Married Ethel Maiy Hall in 1938.