Five of the Christian scholars studying under the Interfaith Fellowship Program of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, here, have been awarded degrees of doctor of philosophy, the HUC-JIR announced. The five are the Rev. Leslie Alden, a Baptist; the Rev. Richard A. Henshaw, an Episcopalian; the Rev. Mark Edward Hillmer, a Lutheran; the Rev. Jean Ouellette, a Catholic; and the Rev. James Glen Williams, a Methodist. The Interfaith Fellowship Program is open to all Christian ministers and churchmen for postgraduate studies in the Bible and related subjects.
At the same time, Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of the HUC-JIR, announced today the appointment of Dr. Samuel Sandmel, an authority on the New Testament and its relation to Judaism, as Distinguished Service professor. Dr. Sandmel, who has been provost of the HUC-JIR since 1957, will retire from that post to devote himself entirely to teaching and writing, Dr. Glueck said.
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