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Ernest L. Martin
Portland, OR
- Biblical historian Ernest L. Martin, 69, died of a heart attack at his home
on January 16, 2002. He had also suffered a heart attack January 4. Survivors include his wife, Ramona,
two daughters Kathryn and Phyllis and one son Samuel, and several
grandchildren.
Dr. Martin was born in Meeker, Oklahoma on April 20, 1932.
He attended elementary and high school in Exeter, California and graduated
from the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California (specializing in
Meteorology). He was a member of United States Air Force from 1950 to 54,
and was sent by the Air Force to the University of New Mexico for advanced
Meteorological training. He forecasted the weather in Greenland for a
year, another year at Research and Development in High Altitude studies at
Lowry AFB, Denver, Colorado. He changed careers in 1955 from science to
social science (Theology and History).
He attended Ambassador College where he received a B.A.
(1958), M.A. in Theology (1962), and Ph.D. in Education (1966). He was
Secretary of the Board at Ambassador campus in England from 1960 to 72 and
Senior Professor of History and Theology and Elementary Meteorology. He
was dean of the faculty at Ambassador College in the United Kingdom from
1966 to 1972. He brought about the alliance of Ambassador with Hebrew
University in the largest archaeological excavation in Israel near the
Western (Wailing) Wall from 1969 through 1973. He supervised 450 college
students for those five years at the archaeological site in Jerusalem for
the summer months and Time magazine featured his program for providing
academic credits for archaeological work during that period.
Dr. Martin became Chairman of the Department of Theology
at Ambassador in Pasadena, California in 1973. He left Ambassador in 1974
(and gave up his tenured professorship) and started F.B.R. (the Foundation
for Biblical Research) in Pasadena. He was Chairman of the Board of F.B.R.
from 1974 to 85. He left F.B.R. to found the Associates for Scriptural
Knowledge (A.S.K.) in 1985 and is presently Chairman of the Board.
He authored hundreds of special theological and historical
studies in printed form, and over 200 cassette taped lectures on similar
subjects, and has appeared numerous times on Television and Radio programs
in which he was interviewed. His primary profession was that of advanced
studies as a research theologian and historian with a deep interest in the
relationship between the subjects of science and biblical matters.
He was an ordained Christian minister in the A.S.K. ekklesia
(translated as "church" in the King James Version). Dr. Martin
was first ordained in London, England in January 2, 1959 by the Worldwide
Church of God (then Radio Church of God); then by the Foundation for
Biblical Research in January, 1974; and finally by ASK in January, 1985.
His ecclesiastical persuasion is non-denominational in beliefs. His main
interest was to restore biblical truth and to help all people have the
opportunity of knowing the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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