University of Vermont Miss McClintock's School (Boston) Occidental College
Notable works
An Introduction to the New Testament (1937, with Kirsopp Lake)
Silva Tipple New Lake (March 18, 1898 — April 30, 1983) was an American classics professor, archaeologist, and scholar of the New Testament. She was awardedGuggenheim Fellowships in 1929 and 1930, for work on Greek, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts.
Silva Tipple began her academic career as an instructor at her alma mater, the University of Vermont. She was also briefly the head of the classics department at Miss McClintock's School inBoston.[5]
In 1929 and 1930, Silva Tipple New received Guggenheim Fellowships for research on the Greek, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts of the New Testament.[5][1] In 1929 she joined an archaeological dig atSerabit, with further explorations atSamaria (1932 and 1934),[6] andVan, Turkey (1938-1940).[7]
Later in life, she was a member of the religion faculty atOccidental College,[8][9] and served as President of the Pacific Coast Section of the National Association of Biblical Instructors.[10][11] In the 1950s, she was the only woman on an international committee to compile a critical edition of the Greek New Testament.[12][13] She lectured in the Pasadena area, and led students on summer tours of Europe and the Middle East in the 1950s.[14] In the 1960s she taught an adult Bible class atSt. James Episcopal Church inSouth Pasadena, California.[15] In 1974 she was professor emerita at Occidental, and still active at her church.[16]
Publications by Silva Tipple New Lake included a new translation of theNew Testament in 1928, "The Caesarean Text of the Gospel of Mark" (a 1929 article written withKirsopp Lake and Robert P. Blake),Six Collations of New Testament Manuscripts (1932, edited with Kirsopp Lake),[17] andAn Introduction to the New Testament (1937, also with Kirsopp Lake),[18] as well as many more technical reports. She was a founding editor of thetextual criticism seriesStudies and Documents,[19][20] and co-editor ofQuantulacumque (1937), a collection of essays.[21]
Silva Tipple married twice. Her first husband was writer Robert Warrington New; they married in 1918[22][23] and had three children together, Robert Jr., Silva Katherine, and Bertrand, before they divorced in 1932. Her second husband was her English-born mentor Kirsopp "Kay" Lake, whom she married in 1932.[3] They had one son together, John A. Kirsopp Lake.[24] She was widowed when Kirsopp Lake died in 1946.[19][25] Her eldest son, Robert W. New Jr., was fatally stabbed in 1948.[26] Silva Tipple New Lake died in South Pasadena, California on April 30, 1983.[27] Her letters are with her second husband's, atDumbarton Oaks Research Library.[28] Some of her early papers are with her first husband's, in the Clarence Herbert New and Robert Warrington New Papers atWake Forest University.[29]
Her step-granddaughter Anne Lake Prescott is a professor in the English, Medieval & Renaissance Studies department atBarnard College.[30][31]
^"Silva Lake Speaks for Sunday Church".Occidental Weekly. March 13, 1953. p. 8. RetrievedOctober 22, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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