Ronald Youngblood collection, 1976-1988

Collection

Identifier: MSS-Bio-12

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Ronald Youngblood collection spans 7 cubic feet over 16 boxes. The bulk of the collection dates between 1976 to 1988.

The three folders of writings are typed or handwritten. The topics of these writings are Biblical in nature. Some of these writings were written by people other than Youngblood.

There are four Genesis Project film reels on Abraham, titled "The Journeys", "The Promise", Sodom and Gomorrah", and "The Binding of Isaac."

There are 10 Genesis Project film reels. They start with series IX on Isaac, Esau, and Jacob and end with series XVIII on Israel in Egypt.

The Bible Teaching for Confident Living magazine issue is "The Jews-Unique in God's Program", dating to June 1988. There are five The New Media BibleTimes magazine issues by The Genesis Project on the book of Genesis, and four more on Abraham. They appear to parallel the films.

There are several boxes of photographic slides of archaeological scenes used by Youngblood to teach Biblical history.

Dates

1976 - 1988

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for researcher use.

Biographical Note

Ronald Youngblood was born in 1931 in Chicago. He married Carolyn Johnson in 1952.

Youngblood received a B.A. from Valparaiso University in 1952, a B.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1955, and a Ph.D. from Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in 1961. In 1958, he was ordained at Oxford Circle Baptist Church in Philadelphia.

He taught at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul from 1961 to 1978. From 1978 to 1981, he taught at Wheaton Graduate School, then at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School from 1981 to 1982. He returned to teaching at Bethel Seminary in 1982, where he was faculty in San Diego until 2001.

In 1970, he served on the translation team for the New International Version, as well as on its revision in 1984. He joined the Committee on Bible Translation in 1976. He served as executive editor of the New International Reader's Version of the Bible and associate editor of the NIV Study Bible. He assisted in translation of Today's New International Version of the Bible. Additionally, Youngblood was editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. He published many other books.

Youngblood died in 2014.