Ben F. Meyer

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Ben F. Meyer

Religious Studies

#1637

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#3194

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Theology

#1385

World Rank

#3166

Historical Rank

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Religious Studies

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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Franklin Meyer was a theologian and scholar of religion. Born in November 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, he studied with the Jesuits, his studies taking him to California, Strasbourg, Göttingen, and Rome, where he received his doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1965. He taught briefly at Alma College and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley before joining the faculty at McMaster University in 1969, where he taught in the religious studies department until 1992. Meyer's areas of specialization included the historical Jesus, and the hermeneutics of Bernard Lonergan. He authored several important monographs over his 30-year career. He died on 28 December 1995 in Les Verrières, Switzerland.

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Ben F. Meyer's Published Works

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Published Works

The Aims of Jesus (1979) (97)
Jesus and the Remnant of Israel (1965) (13)
Did Paul's View of the Resurrection of the Dead Undergo Development? (1986) (11)
The pre-Pauline Formula in Rom. 3. 25–26a (1983) (9)
Many (= All) are Called, But Few (= Not All) are Chosen (1990) (7)
Lonergan's hermeneutics : its development and application (1989) (6)
Self-definition in the Graeco-Roman period (1982) (5)
Jesus' Ministry and Self-Understanding (1994) (4)
Election-Historical Thinking in Romans 9-11, and Ourselves (2004) (4)
Book Review: The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words Of Jesus (1994) (3)
Some Consequences of Birger Gerhardsson’S Account of the Origins of the Gospel Tradition (1991) (3)
The Relevance of ‘Horizon’ (1994) (2)
Paul and the Resurrection of the Dead (1987) (2)
Self-definition and self-discovery in early Christianity : a study in changing horizons : essays in appreciation of Ben F. Meyer from former students (1990) (1)
One loaf, one cup : ecumenical studies of 1 Cor 11 and other eucharistic texts : the Cambridge Conference on the Eucharist, August 1988 (1993) (1)
In Tune With a World That is Good : Variations on the Theme of Authenticity (1990) (1)
Master Builder and Copestone of the Portal: Images of the Mission of Jesus (1993) (1)
A Caricature of Joachim Jeremias and His Scholarly Work (1991) (1)
Jesus's Scenario of the Future (1991) (1)
The temple: symbol central to biblical theology (1993) (1)
How Jesus charged language with meaning: A study in rhetoric (1990) (0)
Book Review: The Gentiles and the Gentile Mission in Luke-Acts (1976) (0)
Réponses / Responses to John C. Robertson / 3 (1979) (0)
Book Review: Justification: Pauline Texts Interpreted in the Light of the Old and New Testaments (1973) (0)
Dialogues in Celebration Cathleen Going, editor Montreal: Thomas More Institute, 1980. Pp. x + 314 (1982) (0)
Book Review: Old or New: The Christian Struggle with Change and Tradition (1971) (0)
Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Partial Knowledge: Philosophical Studies in Paul Paul W. Gooch Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1987. viii + 200 p (1988) (0)
Book Reviews (1980) (0)

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McMaster University