David Edward Aune (born November 8, 1939) is an American New Testament scholar. He is the emeritus Walter Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Notre Dame.[1]
Aune studied at Wheaton College, Illinois and in 1961 he earned a B.A. In 1963 Auned earned a M.A. granted with high honor in New Testament Language and Literature at the Wheaton Graduate School of Theology with the thesis Paul's Exegesis of the Old Testament as Illustrated by His Quotations in Romans 9-11 under the supervision of A. Berkeley Mickelsen. In 1969 he earned a M.A. in Classical Civilization at the University of Minnesota. From 1970, Aune holds a Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christian Literature from the University of Chicago with the dissertation The cultic setting of realized eschatology in the early Church supervised by Robert M. Grant.
Academic work
He taught at Saint Xavier College and Loyola University Chicago before taking up an appointment at the University of Notre Dame. On 21 October 2012 Aune was named honorary president for life of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research.[2]
In 2006, a Festschrift was published in his honor. The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune included contributions from Peder Borgen, Robert M. Grant, and Margaret M. Mitchell.
Works
Aune is the author of numerous books and articles on the New Testament and early Christianity.
Theses
Aune, David Edward (1963). Paul's Exegesis of the Old Testament as Illustrated by His Quotations in Romans 9-11 (M.A. thesis, Wheaton Graduate School of Theology).
Aune, David E. (1972). The Cultic Setting of Realized Eschatology in Early Christianity. Supplements to Novum Testamentum. Vol. 28. Leiden: E.J. Brill. OCLC384083.
——— (1983). Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN9780802806352. OCLC9555379.
——— (1987). The New Testament in its Literary Environment. Library of early Christianity. Vol. 8. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press. ISBN9780664219123. OCLC14069039.
———, ed. (1972). Studies in New Testament and Early Christian Literature; essays in honor of Allen P. Wikgren. Supplements to Novum Testamentum. Vol. 33. Leiden: E.J. Brill. ISBN9789004035041. OCLC707874.
———, ed. (2010). The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament. Blackwell Companions to Religion. Chichester, UK & Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN9781405108256. OCLC430678992.
———; Brenk, Frederick E., eds. (2012). Greco-Roman Culture and the New Testament: studies commemorating the centennial of the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Supplements to Novum Testamentum. Vol. 143. Leiden: E.J. Brill. ISBN9789004226548. OCLC797843303.
Articles and chapters
——— (Summer 1964). "The Text-Tradition of Luke-Acts". Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society. 7 (3): 69–82.
——— (July–September 1966). "St John's Portrait of the Church in the Apocalypse". The Evangelical Quarterly. 38 (3): 131–149. doi:10.1163/27725472-03803002. S2CID251652447.
——— (1972). "The Phenomenon of Early Christian "anti-Sacramentalism"". In ——— (ed.). Studies in New Testament and Early Christian Literature; essays in honor of Allen P. Wikgren. Supplements to Novum Testamentum. Vol. 33. Leiden: E.J. Brill. pp. 194–214. ISBN9789004035041. OCLC707874.
——— (July–September 1973). "A Note of Jesus' Messianic Consciousness and 11Q Melchizadek". Evangelical Quarterly. 45 (3): 161–165. doi:10.1163/27725472-04503004. S2CID251870336.
——— (2012). "The Polyvalent Imagery of Rev 3:20 in the Light of Greco-Egyptian Divination Texts". In ———; Brenk, Frederick E. (eds.). Greco-Roman Culture and the New Testament: studies commemorating the centennial of the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Supplements to Novum Testamentum. Vol. 143. Leiden: E.J. Brill. pp. 197–184. ISBN9789004226548. OCLC797843303.
