Edgar Johnson Goodspeed

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Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (born October 23, 1871 in Quincy , † January 13, 1962 in Los Angeles ) was an American Baptist theologian and professor of Greek and New Testament . He taught for many years at the University of Chicago , whose collection of New Testament manuscripts he expanded as part of his research. This collection now bears his name in his honor. Goodspeed was best known for its Bible translation into contemporary American English ("Goodspeed Bible").

Life and academic background

Goodspeed came in Quincy (Illinois) , the son of Thomas W. Goodspeed and Mary Ellen Ten Broeke to the world, both came from families with a long pastor of Baptist tradition. He enjoyed private Latin lessons from an early age. In 1890 he made his Bachelor of Classical Studies ( summa cum laude ) at Denison University (Granville, Ohio ). 1890-1891 he studied Semitic languages at Yale University with William Rainey Harper . When Harper became president of the redesigned University of Chicago , Goodspeed moved to Chicago, where he received his first theological degree (BD) from Divinity School in 1897 , and his Ph.D. the following year. at the university. Two years of postgraduate studies took him to Germany, England, the Netherlands, Egypt, Palestine and Greece.

From 1900 to 1915 Goodspeed held teaching positions in the New Testament subject at the University of Chicago and its Divinity School as an assistant professor , and later as an associate professor . From 1915 to 1937 he held the full professorship for New Testament and Koine Greek .

Goodspeed died on January 13, 1962. He was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California .

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Goodspeed was remembered for his re-translation of the Bible into American. He vehemently opposed the preservation of the Bible in the King James Version of 1611. In 1923 The New Testament appeared: an American Translation . With John Merlin Powis Smith, he published the entire Bible in 1935: The Bible, An American Translation . He was also known for his translation of the Apocrypha (deuterocanonical scriptures), which he included in The Complete Bible, An American Translation (1939).

Goodspeed is assigned to the liberal wing of Protestantism.

In addition to his academic work, Goodspeed wrote numerous introductory writings and books for lay people from 1912 onwards:

  • 1916 The Story of the New Testament
  • 1931 Strange New Gospels
  • 1933 The Short Bible , ed., Together with JM Powis Smith, University of Chicago Press (a Bible in excerpts)
  • 1934 The Story of the Old Testament
  • 1936 The Story of the Bible
  • 1937 An Introduction to the New Testament
  • 1939 The Story of the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonical Scriptures)
  • 1940 How Came the Bible? , Abingdon-Cokesbury Press (1955 reprint, Jove Pillar Books, Pb.)
  • 1942 A History of Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago Press
  • 1945 Problems of New Testament Translation
  • 1946 How to Read the Bible
  • 1950 The Apostolic Fathers: An American Translation , Harper & Brothers
  • 1956 Modern Apocrypha , The Beacon Press
  • 1962 The Twelve, The Story of Christ's Apostles

Awards

literature

  • James Harrel Cobb, Louis B. Jennings: A Biography and Bibliography of Edgar Johnson Goodspeed. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1948. (24 pages)
  • James I. Cook: Edgar Johnson Goodspeed: Articulate Scholar. Society of Biblical Literature, 1/1981. ISBN 0891304398 (88 pages)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Edgar J. Goodspeed Manuscript Collection online, accessed February 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ Overview of Goodspeed Editions of the Bible , accessed February 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ Baptist Biblical Scholar: Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (1871-1962) , accessed February 22, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Goodspeed, Edgar Johnson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goodspeed, Edgar J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian, linguist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Quincy
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1962
Place of death los Angeles