Rodney J. Decker (1953-2014) received his ThD from Central Baptist Theological Seminary and served as professor of Greek and New Testament at Baptist Bible Seminary in Pennsylvania. He authored "Temporal Deixis of the Greek Verb in the Gospel of Mark with Reference to Verbal Aspect "and several major Greek study books, including "A Koine Greek Reader" and the forthcoming Mark volumes in the Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament.