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{{Infobox academic
| name = Gleason Leonard Archer Jr.
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| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|4|27|1916|5|22}}
| death_place = [[Sterling, Kansas]], U.S.
| nationality = American
| citizenship =
| education = {{no wrap|[[Harvard University]] ([[B. A.|BA]], [[M. A.|MA]], [[PhD]])}}<br>[[Suffolk University]] Law School([[LLB]])<br>[[Princeton Theological Seminary]] ([[BDiv]])
| occupation = Scholar, theologian, educator, and author
| employer =
| known_for =
| title =
| parents = Elizabeth (Snyder) and [[Gleason Archer Sr.]] (father)
| spouse = {{Plainlist |
* {{marriage |Virginia Lillian (nee Atkinson)|1939|1962|end=her death}}
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| thesis_year = 1944
| thesis_title = The Reception of Pindar in Germany during the Eighteenth Century
| discipline = [[Biblical studies]]
| workplaces = [[Fuller Theological Seminary]]<br />[[Trinity Evangelical Divinity School]]
}}
 
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==Early life and education==
Gleason Archer was born in [[Norwell, Massachusetts]], in 1916 and became a Christian at a young age through the influence of his mother, Elizabeth Archer. His maternal grandfather was a pastor. Archer's father was [[Gleason Archer Sr.]], the first president of [[Suffolk University]] and the founder of [[Suffolk Law School]] in Boston.

Archer grewwas upraised in [[Boston, and spent summers in NorwellMassachusetts]]. HeAfter graduatedgraduating from [[Boston Latin School]] and in 1938, he graduatedwas fromeducated at [[Harvard University]], withwhere he received a BA[[Bachelor (of Arts]], ''[[summa cum laude]]'', in [[Classicsclassics]]) in 1938. He then received ana [[Bachelor of Laws]] (LL.B.]]) from [[Suffolk University|Suffolk Law School]] in Boston in 1939, the same year he was admitted to the [[Massachusetts]] [[barBar (law)|barAssociation]].<ref name="JETSMemorial" />

In 1940, heArcher received a master's degree from Harvard and inalso 1944earned hea wasPh.D. awardedfrom athe PhDuniversity atin Harvard Universityclassics in Classics1944. FinallyIn he1945, received his [[Bachelor of Divinity]] (B.Div.) from [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] in 1945.<ref name="JETSMemorial">{{cite journal|title=Memorial to Gleason Archer |journal=[[Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society]] |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=213–220 |date=March 2005 |url=http://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/48/48-1/48-1-pp213-220_JETS.pdf|access-date=February 18, 2016}}</ref>
 
==Career==
Archer served as an assistant pastor ofat [[Park Street Church]] in Boston from 1945 to 1948. He then becamewas a Professorprofessor of Biblical Languageslanguages at [[Fuller Theological Seminary]] in [[Pasadena, California]], from 1948 to 1965.

From 1965 to 1986, heArcher served as a Professorprofessor of [[Old Testament]] and [[Semitic languages|Semiticssemitics]] at [[Trinity Evangelical Divinity School]], in [[Deerfield, Illinois]]. He became an [[emeritus]] faculty member in 1989. The remainder of his life was spent researching, writing, and lecturing.
 
Archer served as one of the 50 original translators of the [[New American Standard Bible|NASB]] published in 1971. He also worked on the team which translated the [[New International Version|NIV]] Bible published in 1978. His defense of the doctrine of [[Biblical inerrancy]] by proposing harmonizations and [[exegesis]] regarding [[inconsistencies in the Bible]] made Archer a well known [[Biblical inerrancy|biblical inerrantist]]. He stated: "One cannot allow for error in history-science without also ending up with error in doctrine."<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.frontlinemin.org/resurrection.asp|title= Resurrection|publisher= Frontline Ministries|access-date= August 17, 2005|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080522111719/http://www.frontlinemin.org/resurrection.asp|archive-date= May 22, 2008|url-status= dead}}; quoted without reference</ref> He was critical of the documentary hypothesis which denies the [[Mosaic authorship]] of the [[Torah|Pentateuch]]. Archer also maintained that the prophet [[Isaiah]] wrote the entire [[book of Isaiah]]; he wrote regarding this issue: "There is not a shred of internal evidence to support the theory of a Second Isaiah, apart from a philosophical prejudice against the possibility of predictive prophecy."
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*{{cite book|last=Archer Jr. |first=Gleason Leonard |author-mask=3 |title=A Survey of Old Testament Introduction |location=Chicago |publisher=Moody Press |date=2007 |isbn=978-0-8024-8434-5 |edition=Revised }}
 
== References ==
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