John D. W. Watts
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The Reverend Doctor John D. W. Watts SBC |
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| Born |
John Drayton Williams Watts August 9, 1921 Laurens, South Carolina |
| Died | July 21, 2013 (aged 91) Penney Farms, Florida |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | B.A., B.D., Th.D. |
| Alma mater | Mississippi College, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Years active | 1948-1995 |
| Parent(s) | J. Wash Watts |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Church | Southern Baptist Convention |
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Congregations served
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Military chaplain, U. S. Navy (1944-1946) |
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Offices held
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Teacher in Old Testament, - International Baptist Theological Seminary, Rüschlikon (Switzerland) (1948-1970), - Serampore College, Serampore (India) (1972-1975), - Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena (United States) (1976-1981)(1976-1981), - Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville (United States) (1981-1995) |
John D. W. Watts (August 9, 1921 – July 21, 2013) was a Baptist theologian and Old Testament scholar.
In 1948, Watts was a member of the founding faculty of the International Baptist Theological Seminary, Rüschlikon in Switzerland where he taught Old Testament. He eventually served as President of the Seminary from 1963 until 1969, and continued teaching there until 1970. After his retirement, he returned to teach for one more year at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in 1995-1996, which had by that time moved to Prague in the Czech Republic.
Serampore College, a constituent College of the Senate of Serampore College (University), Serampore India was founded in 1818 by the Baptist Missions led by Joshua Marshman, William Carey, and William Ward with affiliated seminaries throughout the Indian subcontinent. It was in this historic college that John Watts began teaching Old Testament from 1972 onwards in place of K. V. Mathew but was joined by G. Babu Rao. Among the seminarians who studied during that period include, D. K. Sahu, the present Dean of the Theology Department of the Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, and others.
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