Lyman, Mary Ely. The Christian Epic: A Study of the New Testament Literature. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. First Edition - A. [8129]
Green cloth, 6 x 8 inches, 275 pp., pencil marginalia in many places. Ex college library with the standard markups. Good. Hardcover.
Mary Ely Lyman (1887-1975), graduated with B.D. from Union Seminary in 1919 (the only female student at the time), and was the first woman to receive the Traveling Fellowship for the highest academic honors in the graduating class that year. The award sent her to England for one year to study at Cambridge, which contributed to her earning the Ph.D. in New Testament from the University of Chicago in 1924. She became the first woman to hold a full professorship at Union, and became Jessup Professor of English Bible and Dean of Women Students in that Seminary.
"Lyman was a meticulous exegete whose focus was interpretation of biblical texts in their contexts and the relevance of biblical texts for contemporary lives and communities. An ordained Congregational minister (1949), she also wrote many articles in support of the Social Gospel movement and women's inclusion in church leadership." - Columbia University Archives online.