570.585.9397
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/

Education:
B.R.E., Baptist Bible College
M.Div., Baptist Bible Seminary
Th.M., Detroit Baptist Seminary
Th.D., Central Baptist Seminary



Dr. Rodney Decker has served as a professor at BBS since 1996. He has published one major book (Temporal Deixis of the Greek Verb, vol. 10 of Studies in Biblical Greek, Peter Lang, 2001), several smaller books, as well as scholarly articles in Trinity Journal, Bibliotheca Sacra, Grace Journal, Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal, and The Journal of Ministry and Theology. He has presented papers at the Evangelical Theological Society and at the Bible Faculty Leadership Summit and was the guest lecturer for the Clearwater Lecture Series at Central Baptist Seminary of Virginia Beach in 2002. He served as the Evangelical Theological Society Eastern Region Chair, 2003-2004. In addition, he edits and maintains www.NTResources.com and has created several specialized TrueType fonts for Greek, including a polytonic Greek Unicode font. Prior to teaching at BBS, Dr. Decker taught for six years at Calvary Bible College and Seminary in Kansas City. Previously he spend a dozen years in pastoral ministry.

At the M.Div. level, Dr. Decker teaches:

Elements of Greek
http://webct.bbc.edu/public/NT502/index.html
Greek Reading
http://webct.bbc.edu/public/NT504/index.html
Survey of Greek Literature
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/classes/nt887.htm
NT Textual Criticism
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/classes/nt810.htm
Exegesis of Colossians
http://webct.bbc.edu/public/NT809/index.html
Exegesis of Mark
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/classes/nt811.htm

In the Ph.D. program, courses include:

Seminar in Greek Studies
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/phd/greek.htm
Intertextuality
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/phd/intertex.htm
NT Backgrounds
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/phd/nt_bkgrd.htm
NT Biblical Theology
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/phd/bib_th.htm