Scope and Contents
This collection provides documentation of Leander E. Keck's long career as a New Testament scholar, professor, and theological education administrator. His many speaking engagements, publications, and engagement in the scholarly community are well documented. These are not the official archives of Keck's tenure as Dean of the Yale Divinity School, which are held by the University Archives, but insights into the life of the Divinity School are available in correspondence and course-related materials.
Dates
- 1950-2013
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Leander E. Keck, 2013
Arrangement
- I. Lectures, Sermons, Talks
- II. Writings
- III. Course-related Material
- IV. Correspondence
- V. Biographical Documentation
Extent
10.5 Linear Feet (25 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Writings, lectures, course-related materials, and correspondence document the life and work of Leander E. Keck, who served as Dean of the Yale Divinity School from 1979 to 1989 and Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology from 1979, Emeritus as of January 1998.
Biographical / Historical
For additional biographical documentation, see Series V.
- 1928 Mar 3
- Born near Washburn, North Dakota
- 1949
- B.A., Linfield College
- 1953
- B.D., Andover-Newton Theological School
- 1955-1956
- Study in Kiel and Gottingen, Germany
- 1957
- Ph.D., Yale University
- 1957-1959
- Instructor, Biblical History, Wellesley College
- 1959-1972
- Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School
- 1964-1965
- Postdoctoral research, Tubingen, Germany
- 1971
- Visiting Professor, Union Theological Seminary, Manila, Philippines
- 1971
- Postdoctoral research, Cambridge, England
- 1972-1979
- Professor and Chairman of Division of Religion in Graduate School, Emory University
- 1975
- S.T.D., Bethany College
- 1976
- Postdoctoral research, Cambridge, England
- 1979-1989
- Dean, Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology, Yale Divinity School
- 1980
- D. Litt., Atlantic Christian College
- 1980
- D.H.L., Linfield College
- 1986
- D.D., Texas Christian University
- 1987
- L.L.D., Davidson College
- 1992
- Beecher Lectures, Yale Divinity School
- 1998-
- Winkley Professor Emeritus of Biblical Theology, Yale Divinity School
- Title
- Guide to the Leander E. Keck Papers
- Author
- Compiled by Noemi Palomares and Martha Lund Smalley
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared According To Local Divinity Library Descriptive Practices
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Yale Divinity Library Repository