George Wesley Buchanan

George Wesley Buchanan (December 25, 1921 – 2019) was an American biblical scholar who was a Professor of New Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. He was on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Biblical Archaeology Review.

Life Buchanan was ordained an elder in the United Methodist Church and pastored churches for fourteen years. He also was awarded with Alumni Achievement Award by Simpson College.

Academic work

From 1960 to 1990 he worked as a professor at Wesley Theological Seminary, where he was appointed Professor Emeritus.

G. W. Buchanan was an author or editor of several books and was on the Editorial Committee and Editorial Advisory Board of the Biblical Archaeology Review.

He has also collaborated at Logos Bible Software with, among other works, the George Wesley Buchanan Collection (9 vols.), where he is placed as a biblical scholar, one of the main defenders of intertextual criticism and one of the best Bible scholars of the 20th century.

Views

G. W. Buchanan was one of the people who purported he change in thinking regarding the location of the Jewish Temple. He changed his thinking about the location when he realized there is no natural spring on / under the Haram esh-Sharif. The gihon spring is a siphon spring located 600 feet south of Al Aqsa Mosque, where the Ophel originally stood.

Buchanan is one of the modern proponents that the Tetragrammaton YHWH was also pronounced Yehowah, contrary to the consensus that it was pronounced only Yahweh.

Publications

The English title does not correspond to any work by Reimarius in either German or English Wikipedia.