Papers of the Standard Bible Committee, 1939-1968.

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Papers of the Standard Bible Committee, 1939-1968.

The collection includes agendas, notes and working drafts which document the Committee's progress in its translation revision work. There is a small amount of material related to Committee procedures and publicity material. There is interesting documentation of public reaction to the new Revised Standard Version.

4.5 linear ft. (12 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6742598

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Moffatt, James, 1870-1944

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Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974

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Cadbury earned his Harvard AM in 1904, and his Harvard PhD (Philol.) in 1914. From the description of Records of his PhD examination, 1914. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075107 Epithet: theologian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x0001d1 Cadbury earned his Harvard AM in 1904, and his Harvard PhD in 1914. From the description of Student papers prepared for va...

Goodspeed, Edgar J. (Edgar Johnson), 1871-1962

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Goodspeed was born Oct. 23, 1871 in Quincy, IL; began teaching at Univ. of Chicago in 1894; he later became professor of the Bible and Patristic Greek; wrote more than fifty books, including translations of the Old and New Testaments, The story of the Bible (1957), How to read the Bible (1946), A life of Jesus (1950), and an autobiography titled, As I remember (1953); died Jan. 13, 1962. From the description of Papers, 1950-1951. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat reco...

Burrows, Millar, 1889-1980

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Millar Burrows was Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology at Yale from 1934 to 1958. From the description of Millar Burrows Papers, 1913-1981 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152931 1889 Born in Wyoming, Ohio 1912 B.A., Cornell University ...

Weigle, Luther Allan, 1880-1976

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Luther Allan Weigle, university professor, received his B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1900, his M.A. degree in 1903, and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1905. He was ordained in the Lutheran ministry in 1903, and was a pastor in Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1903-1904. Weigle was an assistant in psychology at Yale from 1904-1905, a professor of philosophy at Carleton College from 1905-1916, the Horace Bushnell Professor of Christian Nurture at Yale from 1916-1924, and Sterling Professor of Religi...

Standard Bible Committee.

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The Standard Bible Committee was organized in 1929 by the International Council of Religious Education. The Committee was authorized in 1937 to proceed with the revision of the English translation of the Bible. The Committee's work resulted in the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. The Revised Standard Version of the New Testament was published in 1946, the entire Bible in 1952, and the Apocrypha in 1957. The work of the Committee was ongoing, to provide for future translation revisions. ...