AGOURIDES SAVVAS
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Biographical Note
Emeritus Professor of New Testament in the University of Athens, was born in Athens in 1921. He graduated from Athens University Theological Faculty in 1943, and in 1950 took his Ph.D. from Duke University, N. Carolina, U.S.A. In 1956 he became “agrege” in the chair of the New Testament OF Athens Univ. He served as extraordinary and then as ordinary professor in the Theological Faculty of the University of Thessaloniki (1956-1968), and he moved to Athens University in 1968, teaching N. Testament up to the year 1985, when he resigned.
Main works: Introduction into the New Testament, Athens, 1971, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, (vol. A, Athens, 1974, vol. B. Athens, 1985), History of New Testament Times, Thessaloniki, 4th ed. 1985, A History of Israelite Religion, Athens, 1995, and six volumes of Biblical Studies published in Thessaloniki and Athens between 1965 and 1996. Prof. Agourides has contributed to translations of important New Testament and other theological manuals written by Jean Danielou, Oscar Cullmann, Eduard Lohse, and others.
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