Fuller: Hauge
By Ed Piper
My professor in my First Peter class in June 2017 was amused: "Wow, that's quite a word," he said, or words to that effect.
I told him during my short five-day audit of his summer intensive course at Fuller Seminary that I was going to use the word "amanuensis", which means "ghost writer", in my blog.
And I've finally done it.
I love the word, because it's so current in the New Testament (hence the initials "NT" in the name of the blog): In Peter's First Letter, he says in his closing, "And Silvanus wrote this for me." Silvanus, or Silas, was one of Peter's co-workers. Obviously, he was well-educated, because the letter, carrying the name of a lowly fisherman, shows the marks of erudite Greek. Plus Peter grew up speaking Aramaian, so a jump to refined Greek would have been quite a trick.
My NT professor was Dr. Matt Hauge, who told us to call him "Matt" or "Hauge" (pronounced "how-ghee"). He is quite a character. We covered quite a bit of territory in the five days I sat in his class (the entire class lasted 10 days, continuing on to the Letter of James the week after I departed). He knows his stuff.
Rather than a theologian, Mauge, who has been a professor of New Testament at Azusa Pacific University for 19 years, calls himself a form critic. "I'm not a theologian," he told us 11 students in class. As a purveyor of form criticism, he is an expert in ancient texts of all kinds, not just biblical texts.
I had not known of him or met him before the class. He doesn't need an amanuensis, though.
My professor in my First Peter class in June 2017 was amused: "Wow, that's quite a word," he said, or words to that effect.
I told him during my short five-day audit of his summer intensive course at Fuller Seminary that I was going to use the word "amanuensis", which means "ghost writer", in my blog.
And I've finally done it.
I love the word, because it's so current in the New Testament (hence the initials "NT" in the name of the blog): In Peter's First Letter, he says in his closing, "And Silvanus wrote this for me." Silvanus, or Silas, was one of Peter's co-workers. Obviously, he was well-educated, because the letter, carrying the name of a lowly fisherman, shows the marks of erudite Greek. Plus Peter grew up speaking Aramaian, so a jump to refined Greek would have been quite a trick.
My NT professor was Dr. Matt Hauge, who told us to call him "Matt" or "Hauge" (pronounced "how-ghee"). He is quite a character. We covered quite a bit of territory in the five days I sat in his class (the entire class lasted 10 days, continuing on to the Letter of James the week after I departed). He knows his stuff.
Rather than a theologian, Mauge, who has been a professor of New Testament at Azusa Pacific University for 19 years, calls himself a form critic. "I'm not a theologian," he told us 11 students in class. As a purveyor of form criticism, he is an expert in ancient texts of all kinds, not just biblical texts.
I had not known of him or met him before the class. He doesn't need an amanuensis, though.
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