Kenneth Willis Clark (1898–1979) was a professor at
Duke University
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, Greek
palaeographer
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; area of interest: Greek
New Testament
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manuscripts, and author of numerous books.
Clark catalogued the Greek New Testament manuscripts housed in the libraries of the United States and Canada (1937).
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''A descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. By K.W. Clark''
„The Journal of Hellenic Studies”, Volume 59, Issue 1, 1939, p. 179. Clark described and catalogued manuscripts housed in the library of the
Saint Catherine's Monastery
Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...
during his an expedition the Mount Sinai (1952). According to his report two-thirds of that library comprised Greek manuscripts with items in Arabic, Persian, Georgian, Syriac, Ethiopian and Slavonic.
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May 2, 2016 He also catalogued the manuscripts housed in the libraries of the
Greek
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and
Armenian Patriarchates in Jerusalem (1953).
Works
* ''Codex 2401 - the Theophanes praxapostolos'' (1933)
* ''A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America'' (1937)
* ''Eight American praxapostoloi'' (1941)
''Checklist of Manuscripts in St. Catherine's monastery, Mount Sinai, microfilmed for the Library of Congress, 1950, prepared under the direction of Kenneth W. Clark, general editor of the Mount Sinai Expedition, 1949-50''(1952)
* ''Checklist of manuscripts in the libraries of the Greek and Armenian Patriarchates in Jerusalem'' (1953)
* ''Exploring the manuscripts of Sinai and Jerusalem'' (1953)
* ''The making of the Twentieth century New Testament'' (1955)
* ''The Posture of the Ancient Scribe'', "The Biblical Archaeologist" Vol. 26, No. 2 (May, 1963), pp. 63–72.
''Theological relevance of textual variation in current criticism of the Greek New Testament'' "Journal of Biblical Literature", Vol. 85, No. 1 (Mar., 1966), pp. 1–16
* ''Studies in the history and text of the New Testament in honor of Kenneth Willis Clark'' (1967)
* ''Illuminations in manuscripts in St. Catherine's monastery, Mount Sinai'' (1973)
* ''The Gentile bias and other essays'' (1980)
See also
*
Kenneth Willis Clark Collection The Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University contains over one hundred manuscripts — in both roll and codex form — dating from the 9th to the 17th century. T ...
References
External links
''An exhibition of Greek manuscripts from the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection : Perkins Library, Duke University''(1999)
''Kenneth W. Clark Lectures''Duke University
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1898 births
1979 deaths
American palaeographers
Duke University faculty