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Conference Speakers

Plenary Speakers

Gregory Beale
Dr. Beale is the Kenneth T. Wessner Professor of New Testament at Wheaton Graduate School. His research has concentrated on the subjects of the use of the Old Testament in the New, eschatology, apocalyptic and the Book of Revelation. He has recently completed a major commentary on Revelation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999), a commentary on I-II Thessalonians (IVP 2003), and A Biblical Theology of the Temple (IVP 2004). He is currently writing a commentary on Colossians and Philemon (Grand Rapids: Baker) and co-editing A Commentary on the Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker). Dr. Beale presently serves as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Daniel Block
Dr. Block occupies the John R. Sampey Professor of Old Testament Interpretation chair at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. His most significant publications include a major two-volume commentary on The Book of Ezekiel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997, 1998) and a commentary on Judges and Ruth (Nashville: Broadman & Homan, 1999). He currently is writing a commentary on Deuteronomy (Zondervan, 2005) and a book on worship, For the Glory of God: A Biblical Theology of Worship (Baker). Dr. Block currently serves as president of The Institute for Biblical Research. His driving passion is to see the Old Testament resurrected as the living and transforming word of God for the evangelical church. Dr. Block and Ellen, his wife of 39 years, are both natives of Saskatchewan, Canada and have two married children and four grandchildren.

Gordon Fee
Dr. Fee is Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Regent College where he taught for the last seventeen years of his teaching career. He is a distinguished New Testament scholar, publishing numerous books in the areas of NT textual criticism and NT interpretation, commentaries on 1 Corinthians, Philippians and the Pastoral Letters, and a major work on the Holy Spirit in the letters of Paul. He currently serves as general editor of the New International Commentary series (NICNT), and also is a member of the NIV revision committee. An ordained minister with the Assemblies of God, Dr. Fee is a noted preacher and conference speaker. He and his wife have four married children.

Jeffrey Weima
Dr. Weima is Professor of New Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary where he has taught for the past 13 years. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, essays and book reviews, he has published two books: Neglected Endings: The Significance of the Pauline Letters Closings (Sheffield: JSOT, 1994) and An Annotated Bibliography of 1 & 2 Thessalonians (Leiden: Brill, 1998). He is currently writing a commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians in the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series (BECNT). Dr. Weima is an active member of several academic societies, lectures overseas, leads biblical study tours, and preaches widely in the Christian Reformed Church. He and his wife have four children, ages 13 to 20 years old.

Preachers

David Block, John R. Sampey Professor of Old Testament Interpretation chair, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky

David Holwerda, Professor Emeritus of New Testament, Calvin Theological Seminary

Mary Hulst, Ph.D. student in Communication Ethics, University of Illinois

Cornelius Plantinga Jr., President, Calvin Theological Seminary

Seminar Leaders

Gregory Beale, Professor of New Testament, Wheaton Graduate School

Lyle Bierma, Professor of Theology, Calvin Theological Seminary

Daniel Block, Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, Southern Baptist Seminary

Carl Bosma, Associate Professor of Old Testament, Calvin Theological Seminary

Dean Deppe, Associate Professor of New Testament, Calvin Theological Seminary

Gordon Fee, Professor Emeritus of New Testament, Regent College