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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 was a Scottish Semitic scholar, encyclopaedist, and student of comparative religion and social anthropology. Smith was ordained a minister in 1870 on his appointment as professor of Oriental languages and Old Testament exegesis at the Free Church College of Aberdeen.
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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 ...
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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.
During the first months of 1881 Robertson Smith delivered on invitation of sympathetic friends within the Free Church a series of extremely popular and well-attended public lectures in both Edinburgh and Glasgow on bible criticism in relation to the Old Testament.
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...
William Robertson Smith (1846-94) was one of the most profound and versatile Victorian thinkers--a principal figure in the development of social anthropology and the founder of modern...
