Records, 1929-1975.

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...

Meeks, Wayne A.

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Wayne A. Meeks is Woolsey Professor of Biblical Studies at Yale University. He has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship, and the Kent Fellowship. His books include The Prophet-King: Moses Traditions and the Johannine Christology, The first urban Christians : the social world of the Apostle Paul, and The origins of Christian morality : the first two centuries. From the description of Wayne A. Meeks, McDonal...

Craig, Clarence Tucker, 1895-1953

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Oberlin College. Graduate School of Theology

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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...

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...

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...

Pope, Marvin H

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Marvin H. Pope taught at Yale in the Department of Religious Studies and Divinity School from 1949 to 1986 and was one of the world's leading authorities on Ugarit. Pope made many contributions to biblical studies, which included helping to prepare the Revised Standard Version of the Bible and advising the National Council of Churches on the New Revised Standard Version. His scholarly output was prodigious, and he helped to bring the public's attention to the importance of Ugaritic texts in the ...