Ernest Cadman Colwell

Ernest Cadman Colwell (19 January 1901 – 12 September 1974) was an American biblical scholar, textual critic and palaeographer.

After graduating from Emory College and Candler School of Theology, Colwell earned a Ph.D. in the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago for his 1930 dissertation on "The Character of the Greek of the Fourth Gospel: Parallels to the 'Aramaisms' of the Fourth Gospel from Epictetus and the Papyri".

Returning to Emory, Colwell then served as vice president and dean of faculties from 1951 to 1957, founding at this time the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts.

[4] Colwell examined Minuscule 330 and found that the text of the Pauline epistles of this codex is textually very close to the codices 451, 2400 and 2492.

[6] In 1959 Colwell, together with M. M. Parvis, developed a new method of dealing with the multitude of witnesses available to those engaged in the textual criticism of the New Testament.

The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity (Claremont), founded under the directorship of Ernest Cadman Colwell.
On June 5, 1947, at Harvard University, first row, from left to right: Robert Oppenheimer , Colwell, General George Marshall , James B. Conant (Harvard president), General Omar Bradley , T. S. Eliot , James W. Wadsworth Jr. , for the granting of honorary degrees to Oppenheimer, Colwell, Marshall, Bradley and Eliot.