Edgar J. Goodspeed

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Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (1871–1962) was an American theologian and scholar of Greek and the New Testament. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago, whose collection of New Testament manuscripts he enriched by his searches. The University's collection is now named in his honor.

He is widely remembered for his translations of the Bible: The New Testament: an American Translation (1923), and (with John Merlin Powis Smith) "The Bible, An American Translation" (1935), the "Goodspeed Bible". He is also remembered for his translation of the Apocrypha, and that translation was included in The Complete Bible, An American Translation (1939)

Edgar J. Goodspeed was born in Quincy, Illinois. He graduated from Denison University (where he also received a doctorate in Divinity, 1928) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. 1898).

Aside from his scholarly work, he wrote many non-dogmatic introductions to biblical literature for the lay reader:

The Story of the Bible and
The Story of the Apocrypha,
The Story of the New Testament, 1916
The Story of the Old Testament, 1934
How to Read the Bible 1946
The Twelve, The Story of Christ's Apostles
Strange New Gospels, 1931
How Came the Bible?, Abingdon–Cokesbury Press, c1940.
A History of Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago Press, 1942
Problems of New Testament Translation, 1945
The Life of Jesus for Young People
The Apostolic Fathers: An American Translation, Harper & Brothers 1950
Modern Apocrypha, The Beacon Press, 1956
The Short Bible, Edited by Edgar J. Goodspeed and J.M.Powis Smith, University of Chicago Press, 1933

Edgar J. Goodspeed died in 1962 and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

External links

Goodspeed, "The translators to the Reader": Goodspeed's thesis on the Preface to the King James Version, 1611
Goodspeed and the Goodspeed Collection of Manuscripts at Chicago
Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (1922). "Chicago, University of". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.).

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 76347560 LCCN: n50037319 ISNI: 0000 0001 0917 1357 GND: 116773200 BNF: cb12110687c

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Name	Goodspeed, Edgar J.
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Short description	American theologian and scholar of Greek and the New Testament
Date of birth	1871
Place of birth	Quincy, Illinois, United States
Date of death	1962
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