Leona Glidden Running, R.I.P.

PIONEERING FEMALE SCHOLAR:

Biblical Languages Expert Leaves Legacy of Student Mentorship

By Patricia Spangler
http://news.adventist.org
Posted 2014-01-31 21:21 GMT

Leona Running, who was the first female professor at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, where she served for nearly six decades, and was an expert in biblical languages, died on January 22. She was 97.

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Outside Adventist circles she was best known for her biography of William Foxwell Albright, whom she knew from her doctoral work at Johns Hopkins University in the early 1960s.