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Russel B. Swensen, Brigham Young University
Abstract
After graduating from Brigham Young University in 1926, Russel B. Swensen (1902-1987) taught seminary in Mesa, Arizona, and later in Kamas and Hurricane, Utah. In 1930, Joseph F. Merrill, then LDS Church commissioner of education, invited Swensen, along with two others, to attend the University of Chicago Divinity School. There he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in New Testament Studies.
Recommended Citation
(1997)
"The Russel B. Swensen Lecture,"
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing: Vol. 26:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thetean/vol26/iss1/3
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