Last week, Dr. David Scholer passed away. Dr. Scholer lived with colorectal cancer for the past 6 years. His cancer was incurable and spread to both lungs. Over the past few years, Dr. Scholer was battling, and perhaps slowly succumbing to a terminal form of cancer.

David Scholer was the professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. Dr. Scholer was a NT scholar who received his doctorate from Harvard, and written the thrilling volumes, “Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1948-1969 (1971) and Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1970-1994 (1997)”. His strong areas of expertise were in the NT, women in the Church, English Bible translation, Church and Judaism, gnosticism, Revelation, and 2nd century Christianity.

There is no doubt the Rev. David M. Scholer was a prominent NT scholar.

Thankfully I had Dr. Scholer for two of my seminary classes: Exegetical Methods and NT2–Acts -Revelation. Dr. Scholer was one of my favorite Seminary professors. He not only engaged the head, but he engaged the heart when surverying and exegeting the NT. Class was never dull with Dr. Scholer even when were contemplating some difficult past participle tenses in Paul’s writings.

Dr. Scholer you will be missed!!!! You radically changed my life in the way I view the 1st and 2nd century.