

The fragment, designated Papyrus 137 and subsequently dated by its editors to the later 2nd or earlier 3rd century, was eventually published in 2018, in the series of Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXXIII. This claim resulted in widespread speculation on social media and in the press as to the fragment's content, provenance, and date, exacerbated by Wallace's inability to give any further details due to a non-disclosure agreement. The fragment might consequently be the earliest surviving Christian text. In 2012 Wallace claimed that a recently identified papyrus fragment of the Gospel of Mark had been definitively dated by a leading paleographer to the late first century, and would shortly be published by E.J. Wallace is a Presbyterian and a soft cessationist. Wallace critiqued Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus: The Story of Who Changed the Bible and Why for misrepresenting commonly held views of textual criticism, especially in Ehrman's view of the "orthodox corruption of Scripture." Wallace and Ehrman dialogued at the Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum in April 2008, at Southern Methodist University in October 2011, and again at UNC Chapel Hill in February 2012. He is a contributor to the Ehrman Project, a website that critiques the writings of Bart Ehrman. Bock, has been an outspoken critic of the alleged "popular culture" quest to discredit conservative evangelical views of Jesus-including the writings of Elaine Pagels and Bart Ehrman. Wallace, along with DTS colleague Darrell L. In 2019 he joined the Committee on Bible Translation which is responsible for the NIV. In 2016 he was the president of the Evangelical Theological Society. He also has served as senior New Testament editor for the NET Bible and has founded the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts.

Two-thirds of schools that teach the subject use the textbook. It has since become a standard work in the field and has been translated into half a dozen languages. He published his first edition of Greek Grammar Beyond The Basics in 1996. Wallace began his academic career teaching at Dallas Seminary from 1979 until 1981 and then at Grace Theological Seminary from 1981 until 1983, before returning to Dallas where he has been tenured since 1995. He also pursued postdoctoral studies in a variety of places, including in Cambridge at Tyndale House, Christ's College, Clare College, and Westminster College, in Germany at the Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Tübingen, and the Bavarian State Library, and in Greece at the National Library in Athens. (1995) in New Testament studies from Dallas Theological Seminary. (1975) from Biola University, and his Th.M.

Wallace was born in June 1952, in California.
