Dale Basil Martin (July 26, 1954 - November 17, 2023) was an American

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scholar and historian of Christianity.

Career

Martin joined the faculty of

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in 1999 and retired as the Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies in 2018. Before Yale, he was a faculty member at Rhodes College and

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. Martin held degrees from Abilene Christian University,

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, and Yale. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Personal life

Dale was born on July 26, 1954 in Baytown, Texas, to Harold Kelly Martin, Jr. and JoAn Watson Martin. Martin grew up in Texas and attended a fundamentalist church related to the

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. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. Martin was openly gay. Dale Martin passed away peacefully on November 17th, 2023 at 5:38 AM at his home in Galveston, Texas, after a brief battle with cirrhosis of the liver.

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