Marshall was one of the great British evangelical scholars of the second half of the 20th century. “New Testament interpretation will be much poorer as a result of his death, and I doubt we will see another like him for some time,” said Stanley E. Porter, professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario.
Porter, who met Marshall as a doctoral student, said Marshall was also a fabulous mentor and example to younger scholars. He was “honest, interested, and humble—besides, of course, being firmly evangelical in the best sense,” said Porter.
At the beginning of his career, Marshall’s approach to the New Testament seemed antiquated, and he was one of only a few well-known evangelical scholars in the 1970s, said N. T. Wright, professor of New Testament and early Christianity at St. Andrews University.
“He was courageous, wise, personally gracious, immensely hard working, and productive, both a role model and a support for the next generation,” Wright told CT. “Wide in his sympathies while definite in his convictions, he kept alive a flame that many feared—and some liberals hoped—would go out altogether.”
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