Henry Adeney Redpath (1848–1908) was an English cleric and biblical scholar.

Life

Born at

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on 19 June 1848, he was eldest son of Henry Syme Redpath, solicitor of Sydenham, by his wife Harriet Adeney of

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. In 1857 he entered Merchant Taylors' School, and won a scholarship at

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, in 1867, taking a second class in classical moderations in 1869 and a third class in '' literæ humaniores'' in 1871, graduating B.A. in 1871, and proceeding M.A. in 1874 and D.Litt. in 1901. Ordained deacon in 1872 and priest in 1874, Redpath, became curate of

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, and then of

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. He was successively vicar of

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near Oxford (1880–3), rector of

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(1883–90), and vicar of

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with

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(1890–8). In 1898. by an exchange, he became rector of St. Dunstan-in-the-East in London. Redpath was Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint at Oxford (1901–5). He was also sub-warden of the Society of Sacred Study in the diocese of London, and examining chaplain to the Bishop of London (1905–8). He died at Sydenham on 24 September 1908, and was buried at

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, Surrey.

Works

Redpath had learned Hebrew at Merchant Taylors' School, and specialised in the Greek of the ''

Septuagint The Septuagint ( ), sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (), and abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew. The full Greek ...

'', completing and publishing the work which Edwin Hatch had left unfinished: ''A Concordance to the Septuagint and other Greek Translations of the Old Testament'' (Oxford, 1892-1906, 3 vols.). At the end of his life he was working on a ''Dictionary of Patristic Greek''. A conservative biblical scholar, Redpath set out his view of the

Old Testament The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...

in ''Modern Criticism and the Book of Genesis'' (1905), published by the

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. His ''Westminster Commentary'' on

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appeared in 1907. He was also a contributor to ''

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible ''Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible'' was a five-volume Biblical encyclopaedia published 1898–1904. First edition The full title was ''A Dictionary of the Bible, dealing with the Language, Literature and Contents, including the Biblical Theology ...

'' (1904) and to the ''Illustrated Bible Dictionary''.

Family

Redpath married at Marsh Caundle,

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, on 5 October 1886, Catherine Helen, daughter of Henry Peter Auber of Marsh Court,

Sherborne Sherborne is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England. It is sited on the River Yeo (South Somerset), River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The parish include ...

. She died at Shottermill on 26 August 1898, leaving one son.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Redpath, Henry Adeney 1848 births 1908 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests British biblical scholars Scholars of Koine Greek Anglican biblical scholars People from Sydenham, London