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Article: Vocation by chance.(professor Marvin Pope)(Column)(Obituary)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- July 16, 1997
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THE LATE Marvin Pope was a truly distinguished authority on Ugarit, an ancient city, and its language, Ugaritic. He was a scholar's scholar. And though Ugarit and Ugaritic lie beyond the ken of most of us moderns, the ancient Syrian city and language are much studied by biblical scholars, who cite Pope constantly. Many learned from him: from 1949 to 1986 he taught, wittily and profoundly, at Yale.
Holcomb B. Noble's New York Times obituary suggests that Pope, a key figure in producing the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, died as he lived: close to the scriptural sources. "He and his wife had just finished reading passages from the Bible to the ...