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31-July-1998 
98249 
 
    News of Theological Institutions 
 
    by Alexa Smith 
 
DUBUQUE, Iowa- The University of Dubuque Library has received a limited 
first edition copy of the "Leningrad Codex" of the Bible from an anonymous 
donor.  Dating from the Middle Ages - 1008 A.D. - this ancient Hebrew text 
was kept under tight control of the former Soviet government and was 
unavailable to translators.  The manuscript is believed to have been used 
by Karaite Jews, a community  in Egypt that was prominent in the mid-eighth 
century A.D. and arose out of the Jewish settlement in Babylonia (modern 
Iraq). 
 
PRINCETON, N.J.- Princeton Theological Seminary has received a $10,040 
grant from the William Albert and Eugenie Hummel Sullivan Fund of the The 
Philadelphia Foundation to maintain its Sullivan Scholarship for students 
of exceptional promise.  The funds began in 1942 as trusts under Mr. 
Sullivan's will, and each year income generated from these trusts has been 
distributed to numerous Philadelphia institutions.  Seminary vice president 
Fred W. Cassell expressed the school's gratitude: "The William Albert and 
Eugenie Hummel Sullivan Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund will help 
support men and women at Princeton who are preparing for ministry.  Many 
would not be able to afford to follow God's call to seminary were it not 
for the generosity of grants like this one." 
 
SAN ANSELMO, Calif.-Sixty students from around the world just completed six 
weeks at San Francisco Theology Seminary in the annual doctor of ministry 
summer term.  Thirteen countries and 16 denominations were represented. 
The summer program began June 8 and continued through July 17.  Visiting 
faculty included Mercy Amba Oduyoye, president of the Ecumenical 
Association of Third World Theologians; Letty Russell, Yale Divinity School 
professor of theology; and Duncan Hanson, coordinator for Europe for the 
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).  Areas of special emphasis were Christian 
spirituality, international feminist theologies, pastoral ministry and 
preaching. 
 
RICHMOND, Va.-Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of 
Christian Education has received accreditation from two agencies that 
accredit institutions of higher learning.  The Southern Association of 
Colleges and Schools and the Association of Theological Schools in the 
United States and Canada moved to approve the federated Union-PSCE in 
separate meetings in June, recognizing all degrees and moving Union-PSCE 
into a course of regularly scheduled accreditation visits. 
 
AUSTIN, Texas-J. Andrew Dearman began his five-year term as academic dean 
of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in June.  Dearman is a member 
of the Department of Biblical Studies and has been the seminary's acting 
academic dean for some time.  Other faculty promotions include Lewis R. 
Donelson, who was promoted to the rank of full professor of New Testament; 
Scott Black Johnson, who became associate professor of homiletics; and 
Michael Jinkins, who was promoted to associate professor of pastoral 
theology.  The Rev. Timothy D. Lincoln was reappointed to a five-year term 
as director of the David and Jane Stitt Library. 

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