The Passing of Paul W. Meyer

I have just learned that Paul W. Meyer has recently passed away. Mark Goodacre has alerted me to an announcement made by Princeton Theological Seminary. 

Word has been received of the death of Dr. Paul William Meyer, the Helen H. P. Manson

Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis Emeritus. Professor Meyer, who died at the age of 89 on Monday, July 29, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is survived by his wife, Mary Lou, and by two daughters, Katherine and Elizabeth.

The son of missionaries to India, Professor Meyer earned his Th.D. from Union Theological

Seminary, New York, before beginning a teaching career at Yale University Divinity School as

Assistant Professor of New Testament. At Yale, he began a lifelong friendship with J. Louis

Martyn and was a teacher of both Wayne Meeks and Moody Smith. He subsequently became Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Colgate Rochester Divinity School (1964-1970),before joining the faculty of Vanderbilt (1970-1978), followed by Princeton Theological Seminary where he served until his retirement in 1989. He was the Shaffer Lecturer at Yale in 1976. His collected essays, and his masterful, succinct commentary on Paul’s Letter to the Romans, were published in 2004 under the title, The Word in this World, edited by John T. Carroll.