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Our Professors

The instruction of the leaders of God's church is a high calling. Those who teach classes influence those who teach churches, reach foreign lands, and translate Bibles. In the content to the right, the Archives summarizes the life and work of a number of influential Southern professors whose instruction of students and research ability merit notice.



Basil Manly, Jr., professor of Old Testament 1859-1871 and 1879-1892, was born December 19, 1825 in Edgefield County, South Carolina to Basil and Sarah Manly. Manly grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, where his father pastored the First Baptist Church. In 1837, when his father was elected president of the University of Alabama, Manly moved with his family to Tuscaloosa. More






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