Silva Tipple New Lake (March 18, 1898 — April 30, 1983) was an American classics professor, archaeologist, and scholar of the New Testament.

[2] Silva Tipple attended Wellesley College before she married,[1] then the University of Vermont, where she finished an undergraduate degree in 1924.

[5] In 1929 and 1930, Silva Tipple New received Guggenheim Fellowships for research on the Greek, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts of the New Testament.

[7] Later in life, she was a member of the religion faculty at Occidental College,[8][9] and served as President of the Pacific Coast Section of the National Association of Biblical Instructors.

[29] Her step-granddaughter Anne Lake Prescott is a professor in the English, Medieval & Renaissance Studies department at Barnard College.