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For its first 50 years, Radcliffe College, established in 1879 as the "Harvard Annex for Women", [35] paid Harvard faculty to repeat their lectures for a female audience. During World War II , male and female undergraduates attended classes together for the first time, though it was many decades [ clarification needed ] before the population of ...
The chronologies of Ussher and other biblical scholars corresponded so closely because they used much the same method to calculate key events recorded in the Bible. Establishing the chronologies is complicated by the fact that the Bible was compiled by different authors over several centuries with lengthy chronological gaps, making it difficult ...
What was originally called Harvard Colledge [3] (around which Harvard University eventually grew) [4] held its first Commencement in September 1642, when nine degrees were conferred. [5] Today some 1700 undergraduate degrees, and 5000 advanced degrees from the university's various graduate and professional schools, are conferred each ...
Eliot Indian Bible, printed in 1663 at Harvard Indian College's press. The Indian College building was the second location for the first printing press in the English colonies. [9] Under missionary John Eliot's direction, that press was used to print a translation of the Bible into the Massachusett language.
John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in Colonial New England whose deathbed [2] bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that the colony consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge".
Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History, originally published as Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History is a wallchart which graphically depicts a Biblical genealogy alongside a timeline composed of historic sources from the history of humanity from 4004 BC to modern times.
Paul David Hanson (November 17, 1939 – June 9, 2023) was an American biblical scholar who taught for 40 years at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hanson spent his whole career at Harvard Divinity School, starting out in 1971 as an Assistant Professor of Old Testament.
The project of biblical archaeology associated with W.F. Albright (1891–1971), which sought to validate the historicity of the events narrated in the Bible through the ancient texts and material remains of the Near East, [21] has a more specific focus compared to the more expansive view of history described by archaeologist William Dever (b