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'''Merrill Chapin Tenney''' (April 16, 1904 – March 18, 1985) was an American professor of [[New Testament]] and Greek and author of several books. He was the general editor of the [[Zondervan]] Pictorial Bible Dictionary, and served on the original translation team for the [[New American Standard Bible]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lockman.org/nasb/nasbprin.php|title=New American Standard Bible – Translators of the NASB|accessdate=2009-11-02}}</ref> |
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'''Merrill Chapin Tenney''' (April 16, 1904 – March 18, 1985) was an American professor of [[New Testament]] and Greek and author of several books. He was the general editor of the [[Zondervan]] Pictorial Bible Dictionary, and served on the original translation team for the [[New American Standard Bible]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lockman.org/nasb/nasbprin.php|title=New American Standard Bible – Translators of the NASB|access-date=2009-11-02|archive-date=2006-11-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061118110400/http://www.lockman.org/nasb/nasbprin.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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==Background and education== |
==Background and education== |
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Tenney was born April 16, 1904 in [[Chelsea, Massachusetts]], to Wallace Fay Tenney and Lydia Smith Goodwin.<ref name="askew">{{cite book|last=Tenney|first=Merrill Chapin| |
Tenney was born April 16, 1904, in [[Chelsea, Massachusetts]], to Wallace Fay Tenney and Lydia Smith Goodwin.<ref name="askew">{{cite book|last=Tenney|first=Merrill Chapin|author2=Gerald F. Hawthorne |title=Current issues in Biblical and patristic interpretation|publisher=Eerdmans|year=1975|pages=15–18|isbn=0-8028-3442-6}}</ref> He earned a diploma from [[Nyack College|Nyack Missionary Training Institute]] (1924),<ref name="jets">{{cite journal|title=Memorials|journal=[[Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society|JETS]]|volume=29|issue=1|year=1986}}</ref> his [[Bachelor of Theology|Th.B.]] from [[Gordon College (Massachusetts)|Gordon College of Theology and Missions]] (1927), his [[Master of Arts|A.M.]] from [[Boston University]] (1930), and his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in Biblical and Patristic Greek from Harvard University (1944).<ref name="wheaton">{{cite web|url=http://archon.wheaton.edu/?p=collections/controlcard&id=130|title=Merrill C. Tenney Papers, 1927–1982|publisher=Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections|access-date=2009-11-02}}</ref> He married Helen Margaret Jaderquist (1904–1978) in 1930,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/044.htm|title=Papers of Mrs. Helen Margaret Jaderquist Tenney – Collection 44|publisher=Billy Graham Center Archives|access-date=2009-11-02}}</ref> and together they had three sons, John Merrill (who died in childhood), Robert Wallace and Philip Chapin.<ref name="askew"/> |
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==Academic career== |
==Academic career== |
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Tenney briefly served as pastor of Storrs Avenue Baptist Church in [[Braintree, Massachusetts]] (1926–1928), and began teaching at Gordon College while still a student there.<ref name="jets"/> After graduation, he joined the faculty and was professor of New Testament and Greek until moving to [[Wheaton College (Illinois)|Wheaton College]] in 1944, where he would eventually become dean of the graduate school from 1947 to 1971. Tenney was Henry Clarence Thiessen's chosen associate{{Clarify|date=October 2012}} and (accordingly) an advocate of fundamentalism.<ref>Keith Call [http://recollections.liblog.wheaton.edu/2009/11/23/thiessen-and-determinisms-cold-and-chilling-effects/ Thiessen and Determinism’s cold and chilling effects]. Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections. Quote: "Responding with a letter to Buswell, Thiessen recounts his own impressive academic qualifications and that “…there may be a way of realizing my ideal at Wheaton College.” Specifically, this meant an ambition to establish “…a first class theological school of the fundamentalist and premillennial type in the North…” .... As the curriculum solidified and expanded, he chose Dr. Merrill Tenney as his associate."</ref> He retired in 1977, but continued teaching as professor emeritus until 1982.<ref name="jets"/> |
Tenney briefly served as pastor of Storrs Avenue Baptist Church in [[Braintree, Massachusetts]] (1926–1928), and began teaching at Gordon College while still a student there.<ref name="jets"/> After graduation, he joined the faculty and was professor of New Testament and Greek until moving to [[Wheaton College (Illinois)|Wheaton College]] in 1944, where he would eventually become dean of the graduate school from 1947 to 1971. Tenney was Henry Clarence Thiessen's chosen associate{{Clarify|date=October 2012}} and (accordingly) an advocate of fundamentalism.<ref>Keith Call [http://recollections.liblog.wheaton.edu/2009/11/23/thiessen-and-determinisms-cold-and-chilling-effects/ Thiessen and Determinism’s cold and chilling effects]. Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections. Quote: "Responding with a letter to Buswell, Thiessen recounts his own impressive academic qualifications and that “…there may be a way of realizing my ideal at Wheaton College.” Specifically, this meant an ambition to establish “…a first class theological school of the fundamentalist and premillennial type in the North…” .... As the curriculum solidified and expanded, he chose Dr. Merrill Tenney as his associate."</ref> He retired in 1977, but continued teaching as professor emeritus until 1982.<ref name="jets"/> |
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==Legacy and death== |
==Legacy and death== |
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In 1951, Tenney became the second president of the [[Evangelical Theological Society]]. In 1975, a volume of essays entitled ''Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation'' (ISBN |
In 1951, Tenney became the second president of the [[Evangelical Theological Society]]. In 1975, a volume of essays entitled ''Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation'' ({{ISBN|0802834426}}) was published in his honor. Tenney died in Wheaton on March 18, 1985.<ref name="jets"/> |
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==Selected |
==Selected works== |
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===Books=== |
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*''John: The Gospel of Belief'' (1948, 1997) ISBN 0-8028-4351-4 |
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*{{cite book|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |title=John: The Gospel of Belief: an analytic study of the text |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=1948 |oclc=854160341 }} |
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*''Galatians: The Charter of Christian Liberty'' (1957, 1989) ISBN 0-8028-0449-7 |
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*{{cite book|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=Philippians: The Gospel at Work |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=1956 }} |
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*{{cite book |author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=Galatians: The Charter of Christian Liberty |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=1957 |isbn=9780802832535 |oclc=2174410 |url=https://archive.org/details/galatianscharter00tenn }} |
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*''Interpreting Revelation'' (1957, 1988) ISBN 0-8028-0421-7 |
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*{{cite book|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=Interpreting Revelation |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=1957 |isbn=9780802832542 |oclc=13074699 }} |
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*''New Testament Survey'' (1961, 1985) ISBN 0-8028-3611-9 |
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*{{cite book|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=New Testament Survey |url=https://archive.org/details/newtestamentsurv00tenn |url-access=registration |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=1961 |oclc=10534288 }} |
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*''Zondervan's Pictorial Bible Dictionary'', with J. D. Douglas (1964, 1988) ISBN 0-310-23560-X |
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*{{cite book |author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=New Testament Times |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Eerdmans |date=1967 |isbn=9780802804181 |oclc=1473505 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/newtestamenttime0000tenn }} |
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*''New Testament Times'' (1967, 2001) ISBN 1-56563-657-0 |
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*{{cite book|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=Roads a Christian Must Travel: fresh insights into the principles of Christian experience |publisher=Tyndale House Publishers |date=1979 |isbn=9780842356756 }} |
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*''Roads a Christian Must Travel'' (1979) ISBN 0842356754 |
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*{{cite book |author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=12 Questions Jesus Asked |publisher=Victor Books |date=1980 |isbn=9780882073460 |url=https://archive.org/details/12questionsjesus00tenn }} |
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*''12 Questions Jesus Asked'' (1980) ISBN 088207346X |
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===As editor=== |
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*{{cite book|editor1-last=Tenney |editor1-first=Merrill C. |editor1-mask=3 |title=Zondervan's Pictorial Bible Dictionary |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Zonde3rvan |date=1963 |isbn=9780310235606 |oclc=2517623 }} |
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===Articles and chapters=== |
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*{{cite journal|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Footnotes of John's Gospel |journal=Bibliotheca Sacra |volume=117 |issue=468 |date=1960 |pages=350–364 }} |
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*{{cite journal|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=Topics from the Gospel of John: Part I: The Person of the Father |journal=Bibliotheca Sacra |volume=132 |date=January 1975 |pages=37–46 }} |
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*{{cite journal|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=Topics from the Gospel of John: Part II: The Meaning of the Signs |journal=Bibliotheca Sacra |volume=132 |date=April 1975 |pages=145–60 }} |
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*{{cite journal|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=Topics from the Gospel of John: Part III: The Meaning of "Witness" in John |journal=Bibliotheca Sacra |volume=132 |date=July 1975 |pages=229–41 }} |
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*{{cite journal|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=I. Literary Keys to the Fourth Gospel: The Symphonic Structure of John |journal=Bibliotheca Sacra |volume=120 |date=1963 |pages=117–25 }} |
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*{{cite journal|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=II. Literary Keys to the Fourth Gospel: The Authori's Testimony to Himself |journal=Bibliotheca Sacra |volume=120 |date=July 1963 |pages=214–23 }} |
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*{{cite journal|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=III. Literary Keys to the Fourth Gospel: The Old Testament and the Fourth Gospel |journal=Bibliotheca Sacra |volume=120 |date=October 1963 |pages=300–308 }} |
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*{{cite journal|author1-last=Tenney |author1-first=Merrill C. |author1-mask=3 |title=IV. Literary Keys to the Fourth Gospel: The Imagery of John |journal=Bibliotheca Sacra |volume=121 |date=January 1964 |pages=13–21 }} |
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*{{cite book|last=Elwell|first=Walter A. |author-link=Walter A. Elwell|chapter=Merrill Chapin Tenney |title=Bible interpreters of the twentieth century: a selection of evangelical voices|publisher=Baker Books|year=1999|pages=202–215|isbn=0-8010-2073-5}} |
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Merrill Chapin Tenney
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Born | (1904-04-16)April 16, 1904
Chelsea, Massachusetts
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Died | March 18, 1985(1985-03-18) (aged 80)
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Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | American professor of New Testament and Greek |
Known for | Editor of the Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary |
Board member of | Evangelical Theological Society |
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Alma mater | Harvard University |
Thesis | (1944) |
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Institutions | Gordon College, Braintree, Massachusetts; Wheaton College |
Merrill Chapin Tenney (April 16, 1904 – March 18, 1985) was an American professor of New Testament and Greek and author of several books. He was the general editor of the Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary, and served on the original translation team for the New American Standard Bible.[1]
Tenney was born April 16, 1904, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, to Wallace Fay Tenney and Lydia Smith Goodwin.[2] He earned a diploma from Nyack Missionary Training Institute (1924),[3] his Th.B. from Gordon College of Theology and Missions (1927), his A.M. from Boston University (1930), and his Ph.D. in Biblical and Patristic Greek from Harvard University (1944).[4] He married Helen Margaret Jaderquist (1904–1978) in 1930,[5] and together they had three sons, John Merrill (who died in childhood), Robert Wallace and Philip Chapin.[2]
Tenney briefly served as pastor of Storrs Avenue Baptist Church in Braintree, Massachusetts (1926–1928), and began teaching at Gordon College while still a student there.[3] After graduation, he joined the faculty and was professor of New Testament and Greek until moving to Wheaton College in 1944, where he would eventually become dean of the graduate school from 1947 to 1971. Tenney was Henry Clarence Thiessen's chosen associate[clarification needed] and (accordingly) an advocate of fundamentalism.[6] He retired in 1977, but continued teaching as professor emeritus until 1982.[3]
In 1951, Tenney became the second president of the Evangelical Theological Society. In 1975, a volume of essays entitled Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation (ISBN 0802834426) was published in his honor. Tenney died in Wheaton on March 18, 1985.[3]
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