Matthew Black
Rev Matthew Black was a Scottish minister and biblical scholar. He was the first editor of the journal, New Testament Studies.Life
He was born in Kilmarnock the son of James Black. He attended Kilmarnock Academy.
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.
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.
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 and the United Bible Societies' The Greek New Testament.Family
He married Ethel M. Hall in 1938.Works
Books
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