[B-Greek] FW: SAD NEWS: Robert W. Funk

James Ernest jdemail at charter.net
Tue Sep 6 22:19:25 EDT 2005


Just noticed the following, which was posted to another list a couple of
days ago, and thought it would be of interest to B-GREEKers ...

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James Ernest
jernest at bakeracademic.com
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From: Douglas Knight came this sad news:
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Robert Walter Funk, 1926-2005

We have received the sad news that Robert W. Funk died yesterday evening. 
Professor Funk is well known for his many publications on the New Testament,

the Greek language, hermeneutics, and the Bible and culture. He was 
president (1974-75) and executive secretary (1968-73) of the Society of 
Biblical Literature, founder and director of Scholars Press (1974-80), 
founder in 1985 of the Jesus Seminar, and founder and director of Weststar 
Institute (1986-2005). 

For more details about his life and contributions, see
<ttp://www.westarinstitute.org/Fellows/Funk/funk.html>.

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