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Silva Tipple New Lake

Silva Tipple New Lake (March 18, 1898 — April 30, 1983) was an American classics professor, archaeologist, and scholar of the New Testament. She was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1929 and 1930, for work on Greek, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts.

Silva Tipple New Lake
A middle-aged white woman in a dark print dress, standing in front of a bookcase, holding a book.
Silva Tipple New Lake (1898-1983), from the Smithsonian Institution Archives (5493933195)
Born
Silva Tipple

(1898-03-18)March 18, 1898
New Haven, Connecticut
DiedApril 30, 1983(1983-04-30) (aged 85)
South Pasadena, California
NationalityAmerican
Other namesSilva Lake, Silva Tipple New, Silva Tipple Lake
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1929, 1930)
Academic background
Alma materBrown University
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Archaeology
Sub-disciplineNew Testament scholarship
InstitutionsUniversity of Vermont
Miss McClintock's School (Boston)
Occidental College
Notable worksAn Introduction to the New Testament (1937, with Kirsopp Lake)

Early life and education

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Silva Tipple was born in 1898, in New Haven, Connecticut, daughter of Bertrand M. Tipple and Jane Downs Tipple. She was raised in Italy,[1] while her father was an ordained minister and a professor, founder of the Methodist International College in Rome. Her uncle Ezra Squier Tipple was also an academic, founder of Drew Theological Seminary.[2] Silva Tipple attended Wellesley College before she married,[1] then the University of Vermont, where she finished an undergraduate degree in 1924.[3] She completed doctoral studies at Brown University in 1936.[4]

Career

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Silva Tipple began her academic career as an instructor at her alma mater, the University of Vermont. She was also briefly the head of the classics department at Miss McClintock's School in Boston.[5]

In 1929 and 1930, Silva Tipple New received Guggenheim Fellowships for research on the Greek, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts of the New Testament.[5][1] In 1929 she joined an archaeological dig at Serabit, with further explorations at Samaria (1932 and 1934),[6] and Van, Turkey (1938-1940).[7]

Later in life, she was a member of the religion faculty at Occidental College,[8][9] and served as President of the Pacific Coast Section of the National Association of Biblical Instructors.[10][11] In the 1950s, she was the only woman on an international committee to compile a critical edition of the Greek New Testament.[12][13] She lectured in the Pasadena area, and led students on summer tours of Europe and the Middle East in the 1950s.[14] In the 1960s she taught an adult Bible class at St. James Episcopal Church in South Pasadena, California.[15] In 1974 she was professor emerita at Occidental, and still active at her church.[16]

Publications

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Publications by Silva Tipple New Lake included a new translation of the New Testament in 1928, "The Caesarean Text of the Gospel of Mark" (a 1929 article written with Kirsopp Lake and Robert P. Blake), Six Collations of New Testament Manuscripts (1932, edited with Kirsopp Lake),[17] and An Introduction to the New Testament (1937, also with Kirsopp Lake),[18] as well as many more technical reports. She was a founding editor of the textual criticism series Studies and Documents,[19][20] and co-editor of Quantulacumque (1937), a collection of essays.[21]

Personal life

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Silva Tipple married twice. Her first husband was writer Robert Warrington New; they married in 1918[22][23] and had three children together, Robert Jr., Silva Katherine, and Bertrand, before they divorced in 1932. Her second husband was her English-born mentor Kirsopp "Kay" Lake, whom she married in 1932.[3] They had one son together, John A. Kirsopp Lake.[24] She was widowed when Kirsopp Lake died in 1946.[19][25] Her eldest son, Robert W. New Jr., was fatally stabbed in 1948.[26] Silva Tipple New Lake died in South Pasadena, California on April 30, 1983.[27] Her letters are with her second husband's, at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library.[28] Some of her early papers are with her first husband's, in the Clarence Herbert New and Robert Warrington New Papers at Wake Forest University.[29]

Her step-granddaughter Anne Lake Prescott is a professor in the English, Medieval & Renaissance Studies department at Barnard College.[30][31]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Mrs. New Pioneering in Testament Study". The Boston Globe. March 30, 1929. p. 22. Retrieved October 22, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Mrs. Silva New wed to Dr. Kirsopp Lake". New York Times. December 17, 1932. p. 21 – via ProQuest.
  3. ^ a b "Marriage Announced of Mrs. Silva New, U. V. M. Graduate, to Prof. Lake". Burlington Free Press. December 23, 1932. p. 8. Retrieved October 22, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Lake Van, (Tilki Tepe) Turkey Expedition, Finding aid prepared by B. Roberts, A. Pezzati, and J. Rodgers. University of Pennsylvania, Penn Museum Archives.
  5. ^ a b Silva Tipple New, 1929 Guggenheim Fellow.
  6. ^ "Archaeologist Describes Excavation of Samaria". Arizona Star. December 14, 1954. p. 13. Retrieved October 23, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Will Penetrate Asia Minor for World History". The Central New Jersey Home News. February 27, 1938. p. 3. Retrieved October 22, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Silva Lake Speaks for Sunday Church". Occidental Weekly. March 13, 1953. p. 8. Retrieved October 22, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  9. ^ "Dr. Silva Lake to Speak to Oxy Women". San Marino Tribune. March 5, 1959. p. 5. Retrieved October 23, 2019 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  10. ^ "Front Matter". Journal of Bible and Religion. 18 (4): 209–245. 1950. ISSN 0885-2758. JSTOR 1458084.
  11. ^ "Dr. Lake Speaks at Episcopal Church Sunday". El Sereno Star. February 9, 1956. p. 4. Retrieved October 22, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  12. ^ Thrapp, Dan L. (November 2, 1952). "New Testament of Today Not Original; Dr. Silva Lake Describes Growth of Bible from Many Translations". The Los Angeles Times. p. 57. Retrieved October 23, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Manuscripts Promise New Biblical Version". The Los Angeles Times. November 9, 1950. p. 52. Retrieved October 23, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Summer Tour of Europe Offered Students by Occidental College". El Sereno Star. April 14, 1955. p. 10. Retrieved October 22, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  15. ^ "St. James Church Opens Fall Schedule". El Sereno Star. September 17, 1964. p. 5. Retrieved October 22, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  16. ^ "Rev. Knowles Selected Rector at St. James". Star News. June 1, 1974. p. 4. Retrieved October 23, 2019 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  17. ^ Lake, Kirsopp; Lake, Silva (Tipple) (1932). Six collations of New Testament manuscripts. Harvard Theological Studies, no. 17. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  18. ^ Kirsopp Lake and Silva Lake, An Introduction to the New Testament (Harper & Brothers 1937).
  19. ^ a b McKim, Donald K. (2007-11-12). Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters. InterVarsity Press. p. 637. ISBN 9780830829279.
  20. ^ Petersen, William Lawrence (2012-01-01). Krans, Jan; Verheyden, Joseph (eds.). "Preliminary Material". Patristic and Text-Critical Studies: i–xvi. doi:10.1163/9789004196131_001. ISBN 9789004192898.
  21. ^ Agnes Kirsopp Lake, Robert Pierce Casey, and Silva Tipple Lake, eds., Quantulacumque: Studies Presented to Kirsopp Lake (Christophers, 1937).
  22. ^ Harvard University Class of 1917 (1921). Secretary's ... Report. class. p. 367.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  23. ^ "R. W. New, Student, Weds". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. March 13, 1918. p. 1. Retrieved October 22, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ Grant, F. C. (2004). "Lake, Kirsopp (1872–1946), biblical scholar". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34375. Retrieved 2019-10-23. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  25. ^ "Dr. Kirsopp Lake". The Boston Globe. November 12, 1946. p. 19. Retrieved October 22, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ "Seaman Remembers Nothing in Charleston Stabbing Case". The Greenville News. May 9, 1948. p. 10. Retrieved October 22, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ^ "Lake, Dr. Silva". The Los Angeles Times. May 4, 1983. p. 70. Retrieved October 23, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. ^ Mildred Barnes and Robert Woods Bliss Correspondence with Kirsopp and Silva Lake, 1933-1941 Archived 2018-07-03 at the Wayback Machine Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington D. C.
  29. ^ Finding aid and inventory, Clarence Herbert New and Robert Warrington New Papers Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University.
  30. ^ "Students Engaged, to Wed in June". The Bridgeport Post. January 2, 1957. p. 34. Retrieved October 22, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  31. ^ "Anne Prescott. Barnard College biography".
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