Dr. Ronald Youngblood is a graduate of Valparaiso University (BA),
Fuller Theological Seminary (BD), and the Dropsie College for
Hebrew and Cognate Learning (PhD). He has served as professor of
Old Testament at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, Wheaton Graduate
School, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Bethel Seminary in
San Diego, and is currently serving in the same capacity at
International College and Graduate School in Honolulu. He is an
associate editor of the NIV Study Bible; author of 1 and 2 Samuel
in the Expositor's Bible Commentary series; and a co-translator and
co-editor of the Holy Bible, New International Version. He has also
edited and/or written ten other volumes, including Nelson's New
Illustrated Bible Dictionary, for which he was awarded the Gold
Medallion Book Award by the Evangelical Christian Publishers
Association. He serves as chairman of the board of directors of
International Bible Society and frequently engages in preaching and
teaching ministries at home? F.F. (Frederick Fyvie)Bruce was born
in October the 12th, 1910, in Elgin (Scotland), to a Brethren
Assemblies family. His father was an itinerant preacher for the
Assemblies. F.F. was baptized and accepted as a member of his local
congregation in September 1928. He remained loyal to his
denomination for the rest of his life. "Through my own experience
with the Brethren, I can say they are the ideal place where a lay
theologian can serve the Church with his gifts" (Restrospect, p.
285).
As a lover of the Biblie and of the classical languages, when he
was only 10 years old, he started simultaneous studies in Greek and
Latin. F.F. was admitted to Aberdeen University in October 1928. He
studied also in University of Cambridge (England, 1932-34) and in
the University of Vienna (Austria, 1934-35), studying in
preparation for his Graduation and Doctoral degree, excelling in
both.
Bruce taught Greek in the Universities of Edinburgh (1935-38) and
Leeds (1938-47). Afterwards, he taught Bible History and Literature
in the University of Sheffield (1947-59) followed by Bible
Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester
(1959-78).
He lectured in prestigious universities all around the world:
Marburg (Germany), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Auckland (New
Zealand), and Makerere (Uganda). He also lectured in numerous
Theological Seminaries, among them the Calvin Seminary, in Grand
Rapids (U.S.A.) and the Union Seminary, in New York City
(U.S.A.).
He was voted President by the prestigious Societies of Old
Testament Studies and New Testament Studies.
F.F. Bruce wrote some 50 books, plus several thousand articles,
essays and reviews. His masterpiece The Acts of the Apostles: The
Greek Text with Introduction and Commentary (1951) marked for the
evangelical world the beginning of a new era in Bible study, being
seriously considered by the Academia. In spite of never having made
formal studies in Theology, he was an extraordinary reader of the
subject and the Aberdeen University granted him in 1957 a Doctor
Honoris Causa degree in Divinities.
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