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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|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 |
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|accessdate=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|accessdate=2009-11-02}}</ref> and together they had two sons, Robert Wallace and Philip Chapin.<ref name="askew"/> |
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==Academic career== |
==Academic career== |
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 two sons, 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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