Your presence is still felt through the excellence of your students...
And welcome back home...
George
Edward Hobbs wrote:
>
> Colleagues:
>
> With sadness, I convey the message of the death of ALLEN WIKGREN.
> He died a few weeks ago near his home in Wisconsin; one of his sons
> sent me the obituary.
>
> Allen's name was on the title-page of every Greek New Testament for
> decades; being one of the original four editors of the United Bible
> Societies' GNT. His name finally disappeared when the 4th edition
> (worst of the series!) came out, as he was too old to continue
> working on the committee. He was 91 when he died.
>
> Allen Wikgren's death completes the passing on of all my teachers in
> Bible and in Jewish & Christian origins: Ralph Marcus (as early as the
> 1950's), Harold Willoughby, Ernest Cadman Colwell, William Irwin,
> Ray Bowman, Paul Schubert, Amos Wilder (my Doktorvater), and now Allen
> Wikgren.
>
> Edward Hobbs