Papers, 1930-1978.

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Papers, 1930-1978.

Papers consist of lectures, appointment books, class books, notes, ms. drafts of sermons and talks, book reviews, photographs, reports of trips, correspondence with publishers, scholars, former students, and Oberlin colleagues, and published materials about May.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7248856

Oberlin College Library

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National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Revised Standard Version Bible Committee

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The Revised Standard Version Bible Committee of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America authored revised translations of the New Testament (1946, 1972), the Old Testament (1952), and the Apocrypha (1957). The committee was organized in 1929, operated for a short time and then dissolved until 1937. From the Committee's inception until 1966, the chairman was Luther A. Weigle of Yale University Divinity School. Oberlin Graduate School of Theology Professor Herbert...

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The Graduate School of Theology began as the Theological Department of Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1833. Academic work began in 1835 with the arrival of rebel seminarians from Lane Theological Seminary. By the 1870s, the school had become known as the Oberlin Theological Seminary. Its name changed to the Graduate School of Theology in 1916. The purpose of the seminary throughout its 133-year history was the training of ministers in a non-sectarian, non-denominational setting. The seminary cl...

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May, Herbert G. (Herbert Gordon), 1904-1977

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The Rev. Dr. Herbert Gordon May, internationally known biblical scholar, was born in Fair Haven, Vermont in 1904. He graduated with the B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1927 and received the M.A. (1929) and the Ph. D. (1931) from the University of Chicago. He earned the B.D. degree from Chicago Theological Seminary in 1930 and the D.D. from Wesleyan University in 1952. Oberlin College awarded May the honorary L.H.D. in 1976. From 1931 to 1934, he served as epigrapher to the University of Chicago...