Biography
An ordained minister in the mainline Northern Baptist Convention,Wikgren then served as a minister at First Baptist Church in Belleville,Kansas and as a professor of New Testament literature at Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary (now Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee,Kansas) (1935-1937) and of biblical literature and classics at Ottawa University in Ottawa,Kansas (1937-1940) before returning to Chicago to join the University of Chicago Divinity School as the J. M. Powis Smith Instructor in 1940. [1] At Chicago,Wikgren was a member of the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature in the university's Division of the Humanities,a department which he would later serve as chair. His colleagues in New Testament studies during his long tenure administering the department (1953-1972) included figures such as Norman Perrin,Robert M. Grant and Markus Barth.
Perhaps Wikgren's most widely known contribution to the study of the New Testament was his role,together with Kurt Aland,Matthew Black,Carlo Maria Martini and Bruce M. Metzger,on the editorial committee that established the Greek text and critical apparatuses in the standard hand editions of the Greek New Testament:the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece (26th edition,published by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft first in 1979 and revised in 1983) and the United Bible Societies' The Greek New Testament (3rd edition,published by the United Bible Societies in 1983).
Wikgren served as president of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research in 1951–1952. He was a member of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) committee from 1952,participating in the translation of the deuterocanonical books and the revision of the New Testament. And he was director of the Chicago Lectionary Project from 1958 to 1972. [4] He also held visiting professorships at a number of universities:Indiana University–Gary,Pacific School of Religion (Berkeley,California),University of Ghana,Århus University,Concordia Theological Seminary (Springfield,Illinois [now back in Fort Wayne,Indiana]) and Uppsala University.
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