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In Memoriam: J. Alan Groves (December 17, 1952 - February 5, 2007)

Will Nielsen
February 7th, 2007
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J. Alan Groves (b. December 17, 1952) met his Savior face to face on February 5 at the age of 54. He is survived by his wife of 28 years, Elizabeth W. Davis Groves; by his four children, Alasdair and wife Lauren, Rebeckah, Eowyn, and Alden; and by his parents James and Jacqueline Groves and his siblings Warren, Jill, and Bryan.

Born in 1952, Al received his B.A. in 1975 and B.E. in 1976 from Dartmouth College, and an M.A.R. in 1981 and a Th.M. in 1983 from Westminster Theological Seminary. He also pursued graduate studies at Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning and was a Ph.D. candidate at Vrije Universiteit, working on a doctoral thesis entitled “A Textlinguistic Analysis of Exodus 1-14.” He was a ruling elder at New Life Presbyterian Church (PCA), Glenside, Pennsylvania. [Read the complete WTS article]

I am sad to share with you that a dear brother has passed on. I sat under Alan Groves for Deuteronomic History and was blown away that when I missed the one class discussion time we had, he called me on a vacation to speak with me about all that we were learning. I know him to be amazingly charitable and irenic, committed to the discipleship of his students’ minds. Any time you read the Old Testament in really any modern language that takes the BHS Hebrew Text into account, you are indebted to Alan Groves and those who worked with him to bring God’s Word to His people.

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