Benjamin Wisner Bacon was an American

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 theologian

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. He was born at Litchfield

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, Conn.

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, and graduated at Yale College

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 (College, 1881; Divinity School, 1884). After serving in pastorates at Old Lyme. Conn. (1884-1889), and at Oswego, N. Y. (1889-96), he was made an instructor in New Testament Greek at Yale Divinity School and became in 1897 professor

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 of New Testament criticism and exegesis

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. The degrees D.D., Litt.D., and LL.D. were conferred upon him. Besides contributions to the Hibbert Journal

The Hibbert Journal

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and to the American Journal of Theology (of both of which he was chosen as an editor), his writings include:

• The Genesis of Genesis (1891)
• Triple Tradition of the Exodus (1894)
• The Sermon on the Mount (1902)
• The Story of St. Paul (1904)
• An Introduction to the New Testament (1907)
• The Founding of the Church (1909)
• The Fourth Gospel in Research and Debate (1909)
• Jesus the Son of God (1911)
• The Making of the New Testament (1912)
• Theodore Thornton Munger (1914)
• Is Mark a Roman Gospel? (1919)
• The Gospel of Mark: Its composition and date (1925)

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