Ben F. Meyer Explained

Ben F. Meyer
Birth Name:	Benjamin Franklin Meyer
Birth Date:	November 1927
Birth Place:	Chicago, Illinois, US
Death Place:	Les Verrières, Switzerland

Spouse:	Denise Meyer
Alma Mater:	Pontifical Gregorian University
Influences:	Bernard Lonergan
Notable Works:	The Aims of Jesus (1979)

Benjamin Franklin Meyer (1927–1995) was a theologian and scholar of religion. Born in November 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, he studied with the Jesuits, his studies taking him to California, Strasbourg, Göttingen, and Rome, where he received his doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1965. He taught briefly at Alma College and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley before joining the faculty at McMaster University in 1969, where he taught in the religious studies department until 1992. Meyer's areas of specialization included the historical Jesus, and the hermeneutics of Bernard Lonergan. He authored several important monographs over his 30-year career. He died on 28 December 1995 in Les Verrières, Switzerland.

Meyer's works deeply influenced major scholars, such as Bruce Chilton, N. T. Wright, John P. Meier and Ben Witherington III.^[1]

Works

Meyer . Ben F. . Christ and the Apostolic Community . Roma . Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana . 1965 . 45132128 .

Book: Meyer . Ben F. . The Church in Three Tenses . Garden City, NY . Doubleday . 1971 . 135021 .
Book: Meyer . Ben F. . 3 . The Aims of Jesus . London . SCM Press . 1979 . 978-0-334-00027-3 . 4760225 .
Book: Meyer . Ben F. . 3 . The Early Christians: their world mission and self-discovery . Good News Studies . 16 . Wilmington, DE . Glazier (Michael) Inc. . 1986 . 978-0-8146-5542-9 . 13998055 . registration .
Book: Meyer . Ben F. . 3 . Critical Realism and the New TestamentvPrinceton Theological Monograph Series . 17 . Allison Park, PA . Pickwick Publications . 1989 . 978-0-915138-97-5 . 18681445 .
Book: Meyer . Ben F. . 3 . Christus Faber: the master builder and the house of God . Princeton Theological Monograph Series . 29 . Allison Park, PA . Pickwick Publications . 1992 . 978-1-55635-014-6 . 25093369 .
Book: Meyer . Ben F. . 3 . Five Speeches that Changed the World . Collegeville, MN. Liturgical Press . 1994 . 978-0-8146-2282-7 . 29465963.
Book: Meyer . Ben F. . 3 . Reality and Illusion in New Testament Scholarship: a primer in critical realist hermeneutics . Collegeville, MI . Glazier/Liturgical . 1994 . 978-0-8146-5771-3 . 31610448 .

Book: Meyer . Ben F. . 3 . One Loaf, One Cup: Ecumenical Studies of 1 Cor 11 and Other Eucharistic Texts . New Gospel Studies . 6 . Macon, GA . Mercer University Press . 1993 . 978-0-86554-398-0 . 24380520 .

Encyclopedia: Chilton. Bruce. Bruce Chilton. 2008. Meyer, Ben F.. Evans. Craig A.. Craig A. Evans. Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus. New York. Routledge. 2014. 411–412. 978-1-317-72224-3.
Book: Denton , Donald L. Jr. . 2004. Historiography and Hermeneutics in Jesus Studies: An Examination of the Work of John Dominic Crossan and Ben F. Meyer. London. T&T Clark. 978-0-567-08203-9.
Hadidian. Dikran Y.. 1995. In Memoriam: A Personal Tribute: Ben F. Meyer (1927–1995). Ex Auditu. 11. iii–iv. 0883-0053.
1995. Professor Emeritus Ben Meyer. Ex Auditu. 11. 0883-0053. .
Westerholm. Stephen. 1995. Passages: Benjamin Franklin Meyer. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. 24. 4. 491–493. 10.1177/000842989502400407. 220899449. 2042-0587.

Web site: Ben F. Meyer fonds - Search Research Collections. McMaster University Library. William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. 17 July 2019.