Marcellus S. Snow
MARCELLUS S. SNOW, a former member of DIALOGUE'S board of editors, is associate professor of economics at the University of Hawaii, where he has taught since receiving his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. He served in the South German Mission and thereafter earned an M.S. in linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He compiled An English-German L.D.S. Dictionary and has previously contributed to DIALOGUE on scripture translation and as a reviewer. The research for this article was completed during a sabbatical leave as a Fulbright professor at the University of Bonn. Except for scriptures, all German translations are his.
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