In a post on 10/16/2024, James Tabor shared a list of his top three NT scholars. Allison was the first one listed.
Extracts from Wiki – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Allison
Dale C. Allison Jr. (born November 25, 1955)[1] is a historian whose areas of expertise include the historical Jesus, the Gospel of Matthew, Second Temple Jewish literature, and the history of the interpretation and reception of the Bible. Allison is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary (2013- ). He was previously the Erret M. Grable Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (1997-2013). From 2001-2014, he was an editor for the multi-volume Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception.
Allison has written several books aimed at readers outside the academic guild. The Sermon on the Mount (1999) seeks to clarify the ethical teaching attributed to Jesus in Matthew 5-7. The Luminous Dusk (2006) is a Pascalian exploration of the sources of spiritual experience and how they have been affected by recent cultural and technological changes. The Love There That’s Sleeping (2006) surveys the musical corpus of George Harrison in the light of his biography and religious convictions. The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus (2009) presents Allison’s reflections on the theological meaning of the modern quest for the historical Jesus. Night Comes (2016) is a series of meditations on death and what might lie beyond. Encountering Mystery (2022) is a survey and interpretation of religious experiences in the contemporary world.
The relationship between Allison’s personal religious experiences and his scholarship is discussed by Jeffrey Kripal in The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities (2023).
