Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. The manuscript that was three feet tall. Are you wondering what that is?

Well, it was actually the handwritten manuscript for a book that was 1500 pages.

I don't know if you've ever read a book that's 1500 pages.

It's quite a feat.

Well, it's a feat to write a book that's 1500 pages.

And the manuscript behind that book was three feet tall. It was

done by Archibald Thomas Robertson, AT Robertson. And he was actually a professor at the Southern Baptist Theological

Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. And I'm recording this episode on location in Louisville.

We're in the alumni chapel here on the campus

of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Who was AT Robertson the man behind this three feet tall manuscript?

Well he was born in 1863 in Virginia but he grew up in North Carolina. He studied at Wake Forest College, excelled at languages,

received a master's degree there.

And then he went and studied here

at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

He married a daughter of the President at the time.

Robertson showed up here, graduated in 1888, and upon his graduation he served for two years as a teaching assistant for John Brodice,

and then in 1890 he was appointed an associate professor and then in

1894 he married and in 1895 he became a full professor he spent his decades

here teaching students, New Testament, and Greek.

On September the 24th, 1934, he was feeling a little ill. He actually collapsed. His students, noticed that he was sweating profusely. He dismissed his class. A younger faculty member helped his 70-year- old colleague make it to his home and there

later in the day he died of a stroke. He spent his entire career here from

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