Dr. Jack P. Lewis was an American Bible scholar affiliated with the Churches of Christ. He earned a Ph.D. in New Testament from Harvard University in 1953 and a Ph.D. in Old Testament from Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion in 1962. For 50 years, Lewis taught Bible and biblical languages, first at Harding University in Searcy, AR, and then at Harding School of Theology in Memphis, TN, where he was named professor emeritus upon his retirement. He authored over 223 articles in scholarly and church publications and published more than twenty-five books.
Lewis published an article on the Council of Jamnia in 1964, which brought him academic recognition and brought later invitations to write articles on the debate regarding that Council. He served on the Bible translation committee for the New International Version and contributed the notes to Hosea and Joel in The NIV Study Bible.
Lewis’s teaching career included nearly fifty years of teaching a course in History of the English Bible. His book on The English Bible from KJV to NIV is one of the important works on the history of the English Bible. In 2004 at the 400th anniversary of the King James Version, he was invited to present a paper on the history of the printing of the KJV. In 2016, he published The Day after Domesday: The Making of the Bishops Bible, which is a study of the Bishops Bible, the least known of the Tudor period Bibles and predecessor to the King James Version.
In 1967-68 Lewis received a fellowship grant from the American Schools of Oriental research to study as a Thayer Fellow in Jerusalem. He participated in an archaeological excavation at Aran. In 1968, he received the Twentieth Century Christian Education award in recognition of his “scholarly research, profound writing, and inspirational teaching.” He was chosen Senior Fellow at the W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem in 1983. He served on the editorial boards of the Restoration Quarterly and Journal of Hebraic Studies and as president of the Southern section of the Evangelical Theological Society in 1969-70.
Lewis was invited to be the commencement speaker at Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1994. At the graduation ceremonies there in 2006, Lewis was awarded a Graduate Medallion as an outstanding alumnus.
Lewis continued to speak on lectureships and in churches world-wide and served as an elder at the Church of Christ at White Station in Memphis, Tennessee, until his death in 2018.
Contributor: JeanS (47799948)
Lewis published an article on the Council of Jamnia in 1964, which brought him academic recognition and brought later invitations to write articles on the debate regarding that Council. He served on the Bible translation committee for the New International Version and contributed the notes to Hosea and Joel in The NIV Study Bible.
Lewis’s teaching career included nearly fifty years of teaching a course in History of the English Bible. His book on The English Bible from KJV to NIV is one of the important works on the history of the English Bible. In 2004 at the 400th anniversary of the King James Version, he was invited to present a paper on the history of the printing of the KJV. In 2016, he published The Day after Domesday: The Making of the Bishops Bible, which is a study of the Bishops Bible, the least known of the Tudor period Bibles and predecessor to the King James Version.
In 1967-68 Lewis received a fellowship grant from the American Schools of Oriental research to study as a Thayer Fellow in Jerusalem. He participated in an archaeological excavation at Aran. In 1968, he received the Twentieth Century Christian Education award in recognition of his “scholarly research, profound writing, and inspirational teaching.” He was chosen Senior Fellow at the W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem in 1983. He served on the editorial boards of the Restoration Quarterly and Journal of Hebraic Studies and as president of the Southern section of the Evangelical Theological Society in 1969-70.
Lewis was invited to be the commencement speaker at Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1994. At the graduation ceremonies there in 2006, Lewis was awarded a Graduate Medallion as an outstanding alumnus.
Lewis continued to speak on lectureships and in churches world-wide and served as an elder at the Church of Christ at White Station in Memphis, Tennessee, until his death in 2018.
Contributor: JeanS (47799948)
Dr. Jack P. Lewis was an American Bible scholar affiliated with the Churches of Christ. He earned a Ph.D. in New Testament from Harvard University in 1953 and a Ph.D. in Old Testament from Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion in 1962. For 50 years, Lewis taught Bible and biblical languages, first at Harding University in Searcy, AR, and then at Harding School of Theology in Memphis, TN, where he was named professor emeritus upon his retirement. He authored over 223 articles in scholarly and church publications and published more than twenty-five books.
Lewis published an article on the Council of Jamnia in 1964, which brought him academic recognition and brought later invitations to write articles on the debate regarding that Council. He served on the Bible translation committee for the New International Version and contributed the notes to Hosea and Joel in The NIV Study Bible.
Lewis’s teaching career included nearly fifty years of teaching a course in History of the English Bible. His book on The English Bible from KJV to NIV is one of the important works on the history of the English Bible. In 2004 at the 400th anniversary of the King James Version, he was invited to present a paper on the history of the printing of the KJV. In 2016, he published The Day after Domesday: The Making of the Bishops Bible, which is a study of the Bishops Bible, the least known of the Tudor period Bibles and predecessor to the King James Version.
In 1967-68 Lewis received a fellowship grant from the American Schools of Oriental research to study as a Thayer Fellow in Jerusalem. He participated in an archaeological excavation at Aran. In 1968, he received the Twentieth Century Christian Education award in recognition of his “scholarly research, profound writing, and inspirational teaching.” He was chosen Senior Fellow at the W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem in 1983. He served on the editorial boards of the Restoration Quarterly and Journal of Hebraic Studies and as president of the Southern section of the Evangelical Theological Society in 1969-70.
Lewis was invited to be the commencement speaker at Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1994. At the graduation ceremonies there in 2006, Lewis was awarded a Graduate Medallion as an outstanding alumnus.
Lewis continued to speak on lectureships and in churches world-wide and served as an elder at the Church of Christ at White Station in Memphis, Tennessee, until his death in 2018.
Contributor: JeanS (47799948)
Lewis published an article on the Council of Jamnia in 1964, which brought him academic recognition and brought later invitations to write articles on the debate regarding that Council. He served on the Bible translation committee for the New International Version and contributed the notes to Hosea and Joel in The NIV Study Bible.
Lewis’s teaching career included nearly fifty years of teaching a course in History of the English Bible. His book on The English Bible from KJV to NIV is one of the important works on the history of the English Bible. In 2004 at the 400th anniversary of the King James Version, he was invited to present a paper on the history of the printing of the KJV. In 2016, he published The Day after Domesday: The Making of the Bishops Bible, which is a study of the Bishops Bible, the least known of the Tudor period Bibles and predecessor to the King James Version.
In 1967-68 Lewis received a fellowship grant from the American Schools of Oriental research to study as a Thayer Fellow in Jerusalem. He participated in an archaeological excavation at Aran. In 1968, he received the Twentieth Century Christian Education award in recognition of his “scholarly research, profound writing, and inspirational teaching.” He was chosen Senior Fellow at the W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem in 1983. He served on the editorial boards of the Restoration Quarterly and Journal of Hebraic Studies and as president of the Southern section of the Evangelical Theological Society in 1969-70.
Lewis was invited to be the commencement speaker at Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1994. At the graduation ceremonies there in 2006, Lewis was awarded a Graduate Medallion as an outstanding alumnus.
Lewis continued to speak on lectureships and in churches world-wide and served as an elder at the Church of Christ at White Station in Memphis, Tennessee, until his death in 2018.
Contributor: JeanS (47799948)
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