Scope and Contents
Correspondence, notes, writings, photographs, and slides document Burrows' life and work.
Dates
- 1913-1981
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Arrangement
- I. Correspondence, 1934-1979
- II. Notes, undated
- III. Sermons, Lectures, Interviews, 1943-1979, undated
- IV. Writings, 1925-1978, undated
- V. Slides and Photographs, 1938-1960, undated
- VI. Personal Items and Memorabilia, 1913-1981, undated
Extent
4 Linear Feet (9 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Correspondence, notes, writings, photographs, and slides document Burrows' life and work. Millar Burrows (1889-1980) was Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology at Yale from 1934 to 1958.
Biographical / Historical
- 1889
- Born in Wyoming, Ohio
- 1912
- B.A., Cornell University
- 1915
- B.D., Union Theological Seminary, New York
- 1915-1919
- Pastorate in Wallace, Texas
- 1919-1920
- Supervisor, Texas Church Survey
- 1920-1923
- Professor of Biblical History and Literature, Tusculum College, Tennessee
- 1925
- Ph.D., Yale University
- 1925-1928
- Assistant professor, Biblical Literature and History of Religion, Brown University
- 1928-1932
- Associate professor, Brown
- 1932-1934
- Professor, Brown
- 1934-1948
- President, American School for Oriental Research, Jersalem
- 1934-1958
- Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology, Yale Divinity School
- 1950-1958
- Chairman, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Yale
- 1960
- D.D., Oberlin
- 1961
- D.D., Yale, Brown
- 1980
- Died
- Title
- Guide to the Millar Burrows Papers
- Author
- Compiled by Martha Lund Smalley
- Date
- 1998
- 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