Question: Which New Testament scholar and Christian minister was endorsed by the American historical theologian and ninth president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary?

Context articles: Thomas R. Schreiner
Lee Rutland Scarborough
Scot McKnight
Allen Wikgren
George W. Knight III
William Hatch
Benjamin L. Merkle
Frank Stagg (theologian)
F. David Farnell
Albert Mohler

Thomas R. Schreiner is an American New Testament scholar.
 He is the James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
 He previously taught at Bethel Theological Seminary and Azusa Pacific University.
 He is also co-chairman of the Christian Standard Bible's Translation Oversight Committee.
Lee Rutland Scarborough (1870–1945) was an American Southern Baptist pastor, evangelist, denominational leader, and professor at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
 He accepted the invitation of B. H. Carroll in 1908 to occupy the world's first academic chair of evangelism, "The Chair of Fire," (also known as the L. R. Scarborough Chair of Evangelism) and chaired of the seminary's department of evangelism.
 In February 1915, following the death of B. H. Carroll, he became president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
 He remained in both positions until 1942, during which time he also served a term as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas (1929–32) and a term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1938–40).
Scot McKnight is an American New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity, theologian, speaker, author and blogger who has written widely on the historical Jesus, early Christianity, the emerging church and missional church movements, spiritual formation and Christian living.
 He is currently Professor of New Testament at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, IL.
 McKnight is an ordained Anglican with anabaptist leanings, and has also written frequently on issues in modern anabaptism.
Wikgren earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (in Greek) in 1928, his Master of Arts degree in 1929 and his Ph.D. in 1932, all from the University of Chicago.
 His doctoral dissertation was entitled "A Comparative Study of the Theodotionic and Septuagint Versions of Daniel".
 An ordained minister in the mainline Northern Baptist Convention, Wikgren then served as a minister at First Baptist Church in Belleville, Kansas and as a professor of New Testament literature at Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary (now Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee, Kansas) (1935-1937) and of biblical literature and classics at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas (1937-1940) before returning to Chicago to join the University of Chicago Divinity School as the J. M. Powis Smith Instructor in 1940.
 At Chicago, Wikgren was a member of the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature in the university's Division of the Humanities, a department which he would later serve as chair.
 His colleagues in New Testament studies during his long tenure administering the department (1953-1972) included figures such as Norman Perrin, Robert M. Grant and Markus Barth.
George William Knight III (born 1931) is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
 He is a theologian, author, preacher, churchman, and adjunct professor of New Testament at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Taylors, South Carolina.
 Formerly, he was the founding Dean and Professor of New Testament at Knox Theological Seminary.
 Prior to his appointment at Knox Theological Seminary, he taught New Testament and New Testament Greek at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
 As a pastor, he planted Covenant Presbyterian Church in Naples, Florida and has served numerous other local churches in the Presbyterian Church in America and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
 A former president of the Evangelical Theological Society, he has also taught and preached the Bible at many other seminaries and churches around the world.
 He has authored several works, most notably "The Pastoral Epistles" and a short commentary of Timothy and Titus as included in the "Baker Commentary on the Bible".
 He received his theological doctorate from Free University of Amsterdam in 1968.
 Dr. Knight was a member of the General Assembly-appointed "Ad Interim Committee" to study the number of ordained offices in the Presbyterian Church in America according to Scripture.
 His "Ad Interim Report of the Number of Offices" by George W. Knight III was incorporated into the polity of the Presbyterian Church in America.
 He also served on an ad interim committee to study the issue of marriage, divorce and remarriage, which brought about the 1992 publication of a Position Paper of the Presbyterian Church in America on Remarriage and Divorce, 1992.
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William Henry Paine Hatch (August 2, 1875 – November 11, 1972) was an American theologian and New Testament scholar, born at Camden, N. J. He attended Harvard, graduating in 1898 (Ph.D., 1904).
 Afterward, he graduated the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the General Theological Seminary in New York City.
 He was ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in 1902.
 Hatch was awarded a Doctor of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York and a D.Théol.
 from the University of Strasbourg.
 He was Professor of the Literature and Interpretation of the New Testament at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 Hatch published many articles and reviews and was the author of "The Pauline Idea of Faith" (1917), and, with C. C. Edmunds, "The Gospel Manuscripts of the General Theological Seminary" (1918).
Benjamin Lee Merkle (born 1971) is an American New Testament scholar.
 He is Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
 Merkle studied at Kuyper College, Westminster Seminary California, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
 He served as Professor of New Testament at Malaysia Baptist Theological Seminary before coming to SEBTS.
Frank Stagg, Ph.D., (1911–2001) was a Southern Baptist theologian, seminary professor, author, and pastor over a 50-year ministry career.
 He taught New Testament interpretation and Greek at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary from 1945 until 1964 and at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky from 1964 until 1978.
 His publications, recognitions and honors earned him distinction as one of the eminent theologians of the past century.
 Other eminent theologians have honored him as a "Teaching Prophet."
F. David Farnell (born 1958) is an American New Testament scholar, Christian minister and professor of New Testament studies at The Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, California.
 He promotes a conservative approach to New Testament studies.
 Farnell's works include the book "The Jesus Crisis: The Inroads of historical Criticism into Evangelical Scholarship" and "The Jesus Quest: The Danger from Within".
 His writings on biblical inerrancy have been endorsed by John F. MacArthur, Albert Mohler, and Paige Patterson.
 He is also the pastor of Grace Bible Church in Oxnard, California.
Richard Albert Mohler Jr. (born October 19, 1959), is an American historical theologian and the ninth president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
 He has been described as "one of America's most influential evangelicals".