James Hardy Ropes
James Hardy Ropes (September 3, 1866 – January 7, 1933) was an American theologian.[1][2] He graduated from Harvard College in 1889 and was an instructor there from 1895 to 1898 and an assistant professor until 1903.[3] Ropes was then appointed the Bussey Professor of New Testament criticism.[3] He occupied the Hollis Chair at Harvard Divinity School starting in 1910.[4] He was also the Chairman of Commission on Extension Courses and Dean of the University Extension.[5]
He led the funeral of Henry Bradford Endicott, for whom Ropes' boss, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, served as a pall bearer with Governors Calvin Coolidge and Samuel W. McCall.[6]
Works
[edit]Volume three of The Beginnings of Christianity was a presentation of Ropes' textual evidence for Acts.
References
[edit]- ^ McKim, Donald K (2007). Dictionary of major biblical interpreters. InterVarsity Press. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-8308-2927-9.
- ^ JAMES HARDY ROPES (1866-1933)
- ^ a b "PROF WHITTEM MADE A HARVARD DEAN". Boston Daily Globe. June 10, 1922. p. 5. ProQuest 504402540. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
- ^ Quinquennial catalogue of the officers and graduate. Harvard University. 1920. p. 22.
- ^ Shinagel 2010.
- ^ "MANY LABOR MEN AT ENDICOTT FUNDERAL: Simple Services at Home of Clarence W.Barron Gov Coolidge and Ex-Gov McCall Head Honorary Bearers". Boston Daily Globe. February 16, 1920. p. 6. ProQuest 503935974. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
Works cited
[edit]- Shinagel, Michael (2010). The Gates Unbarred: A History of University Extension at Harvard, 1910 - 2009. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674051355.
External links
[edit]- Sermons and glass slides by James Hardy Ropes are in the Harvard Divinity School Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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