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William Robertson Smith FRSE (8 November 1846 – 31 March 1894) was a Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity, and minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was an editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica.
Apr 9, 2024 · William Robertson Smith (born Nov. 8, 1846, Keig, Aberdeenshire, Scot.—died March 31, 1894, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.) was a Scottish Semitic scholar, encyclopaedist, and student of comparative religion and social anthropology.
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William Robertson Smith (November 8, 1846 – March 31, 1894) was a Scottish philologist, anthropologist, and Biblical critic. He is best known for his work on the Encyclopædia Britannica and his book Religion of the Semites (1889), which is considered a foundational text in the comparative study of religion. He is credited as one who ...
May 9, 2018 · Analysis of religion. As achurchman and theologian, Robertson Smith had an immediate concern with religion. His writings were, in part at least, the solution to apersonal problem, giving him a more satisfactory understanding of the essence of religion and a reason for his continued convictions.
In W. Robertson Smith and the Sociological Study of Religion, T. O. Beidelman, a renowned anthropologist and ethnographer, relates Smith's personality and career to the radical nature of his...
William Robertson Smith (1846 – 1894) was a celebrated Scottish biblical critic and a theorist of both religion and myth. Smith's accomplishments were multiple. He brought higher biblical criticism from Germany to the English-speaking world and then developed it far beyond its continental origins.
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William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) was successively the embattled champion of the emergent higher criticism as applied to the Old Testament, chief editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and...
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