Quote of the day
Our passions are most like to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Edgar J. Goodspeed
Born: October 23, 1871
Died: January 13, 1962 (aged 90)
Bio: Edgar Johnson Goodspeed 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.
Known for:
- Strange New Gospels (1931)
- The Story of the New Testament (1916)
- The Story of the Apocrypha (1939)
- The Formation of the New Testament (1926)
- How to Read the Bible (1946)