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Edward William Grinfield
Edward William Grinfield (1785–1864) was an English biblical scholar. Life He was the son of Thomas Grinfield and Anna Joanna, daughter of Joseph Foster Barham of Bedford, and brother of Thomas Grinfield. He was a schoolfellow of Thomas de Quincey at Wingfield, Wiltshire. He entered Lincoln College, Oxford, proceeded B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808, and was ordained in the same year by the Bishop of Lincoln. After studying law at Lincoln's Inn and the Inner Temple, Grinfield became minister of Laura Chapel, Bath. It had been founded by Francis Randolph, its proprietor, in 1756. Later he moved to London, where he occasionally preached at Kensington. In 1859 Grinfield founded and endowed a lectureship at Oxford on the Septuagint. He died at Brighton on 9 July 1864, and was buried in Hove churchyard. Works Grinfield wrote many pamphlets, articles, and reviews, as an advocate of Anglican orthodoxy. His works are: * ‘Reflections on the Connection of the British Government with the Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Foster Barham Of Bedford
Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew (). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled , . In Kurdish (''Kurdî''), the name is , Persian, the name is , and in Turkish it is . In Pashto the name is spelled ''Esaf'' (ايسپ) and in Malayalam it is spelled ''Ousep'' (ഔസേപ്പ്). In Tamil, it is spelled as ''Yosepu'' (யோசேப்பு). The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wharton Booth Marriott
Wharton may refer to: Education * Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States * Wharton County Junior College, in Wharton, Texas, United States * Paul R. Wharton High School, in Tampa, Florida, United States * Wharton Center for Performing Arts, at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, United States Places Antarctica * Mount Wharton Australia * Wharton, Western Australia, a town in the Shire of Esperance England * Wharton, Cheshire * Wharton, Cumbria United States * Wharton, New Jersey * Wharton, Ohio * Wharton, Texas * Wharton, West Virginia * Wharton Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania * Wharton Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania * Wharton Creek, a stream in New York State * Wharton State Forest, New Jersey Other * Wharton Basin, the north-eastern part of the Indian Ocean People * Wharton (name), including a list of people with the name See also *Warton (other) Warton may refer to: Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Dunbar Kilpatrick
George Dunbar Kilpatrick (15 September 1910 – 14 January 1989) was an Anglican priest and theologian. He was Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford from 1949 to 1977. Life Kilpatrick was born in Coal Creek, British Columbia, Canada. Education He studied at University College, London (obtaining a first-class degree in classics in 1932) and Oriel College, Oxford (obtaining a second-class degree in Literae Humaniores (classics) in 1934 and a second-class degree in theology in 1936, as well as a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1944). In 1948 he obtained his Doctor of Divinity degree. Academic work He was ordained deacon in 1936 and priest in 1937, serving as a curate in Horsell, Surrey, and in Selly Oak, Birmingham. After tutoring at Queen's College, Edgbaston, and serving as Acting Warden of the College of the Ascension, Selly Oak, Kilpatrick became rector of Wishaw, Warwickshire, and a lecturer at Lichfield Theological Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walter Manson
Thomas Walter Manson (July 22, 1893 – May 1, 1958), FBA was an English biblical scholar. Born in North Shields on July 22, 1893, he was educated at Tynemouth Municipal High School and the University of Glasgow where he was awarded an M.A. In 1922 he entered Westminster College, Cambridge, for training as a minister of the Presbyterian Church of England, and concurrently Christ's College where he read for the Oriental Tripos. In 1925 he was ordained as a minister and after a period at the Jewish Mission Institute in Bethnal Green he became minister at Falstone Church, Northumberland, in 1926. In the same year he married Nora Wallace. While at Falstone his first book, ''The Teaching of Jesus'', was published. This book established him as a New Testament scholar. In 1932 he was appointed Yates Professor of New Testament Greek and Exegesis at Mansfield College, Oxford. His writings are mainly in the field of New Testament studies but his knowledge of Hebrew and several more orient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Rolles Driver
Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver (20 August 1892 – 22 April 1975), known as G. R. Driver, was an English Orientalist noted for his studies of Semitic languages and Assyriology. His father was considered the "most distinguished British Hebraist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". Life Driver was born in Oxford, England, son of the noted English biblical scholar Samuel Rolles Driver, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, (1911–1915) where he won the Pusey and Ellerton and Senior Kennicott Hebrew Scholarships and the Gaisford Prize for Greek prose (1913) and for Greek verse (1916). After serving in World War I, with tasks as varied as hospital work, postal censorship, and intelligence, in 1919, he was named fellow and classical tutor in Magdalen College, Oxford. He remained at Oxford for his entire career, ultimately as Professor of Semitic Philology, and produced a steady stream of scholarly articles on subjects including vocabu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Harold Dodd
Charles Harold Dodd (7 April 1884 – 21 September 1973) was a Welsh New Testament scholar and influential Protestant theologian. He is known for promoting "realized eschatology", the belief that Jesus' references to the kingdom of God meant a present reality rather than a future apocalypse. He was influenced by Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Otto. Life Dodd was born on 7 April 1884 in the Welsh town of Wrexham, Denbighshire. He was the elder brother of the historian A. H. Dodd, the classicist P. W. Dodd and the teacher E. E. Dodd. He studied classics at University College, Oxford, from 1902. After graduating in 1906 he spent a year in Berlin, where he studied under the influential Adolf von Harnack. He studied for the ministry at Mansfield College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1912. He was a Congregationalist minister for three years in Warwick, before going into academia. From 1915 he was Yates Lecturer in New Testament at Oxford. He became Rylands Professor of Biblical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Buchanan Gray
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Hamblin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry St
''Henry St.'' is the sixth studio album by Swedish folk musician The Tallest Man On Earth. It was released on 14 April 2023 by Anti-. Critical reception Critical reception for ''Henry St.'' was generally positive. The album has a score of 74 out of 100 on the review aggregate website Metacritic Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created ... based on reviews from 5 critics. Track listing All songs by Kristian Matsson except where noted. Music By Kristian Matsson. Lyrics by Kristian Matsson and Amelia Meath. Personnel Credits adapted from the album liner notes. * Kristian Matsson – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Feedback, Banjo, Ukulele (Track 7), 12-String Guitar * Ryan Gustafson – Classical Guitar, Electric Guitar, Lap Steel, Ukulele (Track 9) * TJ Maiani – Drums (T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Henry Charles
Robert Henry (R. H.) Charles, (Cookstown, 6 August 1855 – Westminster, 1931) was an Irish Anglican theologian, biblical scholar, professor, and translator from Northern Ireland. He is known particularly for his English translations of numerous apocryphal and pseudepigraphal Ancient Hebrew writings, including the ''Book of Jubilees'' (1895), the '' Apocalypse of Baruch'' (1896), the ''Ascension of Isaiah'' (1900), the ''Book of Enoch'' (1906), and the ''Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs'' (1908), which have been widely used. He wrote the articles in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, eleventh edition of ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1911) attributed to the initials "R. H. C." He was born in Cookstown Cookstown (, ) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the fourth-largest town in the county and had a population of 12,546 in the 2021 census. It, along with Magherafelt and Dungannon, is one of the main towns in the Mid-Ulster ..., County Tyr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Adeney Redpath
Henry Adeney Redpath (1848–1908) was an English cleric and biblical scholar. Life Born at Sydenham on 19 June 1848, he was eldest son of Henry Syme Redpath, solicitor of Sydenham, by his wife Harriet Adeney of Islington. In 1857 he entered Merchant Taylors' School, and won a scholarship at The Queen's College, Oxford, 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 Southam in Warwickshire, and then of Luddesdown in Kent. He was successively vicar of Wolvercote near Oxford (1880–3), rector of Holwell, Dorset (1883–90), and vicar of Sparsholt, Oxfordshire with Kingston Lisle (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 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Henry Hamilton Wright
Charles Henry Hamilton Wright (9 March 1836, Dublin – 22 March 1909) was an Irish Anglican clergyman. Biography Wright was the second son of barrister Edward Wright and his wife Charlotte. His older brother was Edward Percival Wright. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1857. He was Bampton lecturer at Oxford in 1878, Donnellan lecturer at Dublin 1880, Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint at Oxford 1893–97, and vicar of Saint John's, Liverpool, 1891–98, examiner in Hebrew at the University of London 1897–99, at the University of Wales 1897–1901, and clerical superintendent of the Protestant Reformation Society in 1898–1907. Publications * ''Grammar of Modern Irish'' (1855; ed. 1860) * ''Book of Genesis in Hebrew'' (1859) * ''Bunyan's Works with Notes'' (1866) * ''Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin'' (1874) * ''The One Religion'' (1881) * ''The Book Of Koheleth, Commonly Called Ecclesiastes, Considered In Relation To Modern Criticism, And To The Doctr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Edersheim
Alfred Edersheim (7 March 1825 – 16 March 1889) was a Jewish convert to Christianity and a Biblical scholar known especially for his book ''The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah'' (1883). Early life and education Edersheim was born in Vienna to Jewish parents of culture and wealth. English was spoken in their home, and he became fluent at an early age. He was educated at a local gymnasium and also in the Talmud and Torah at a Hebrew school, and in 1841 he entered the University of Vienna. His father suffered illness and financial reversals before Alfred could complete his university education, and he had to support himself. Conversion and Christian ministry Edersheim emigrated to Hungary and became a teacher of languages. He converted to Christianity in Pest when he came under the influence of John Duncan, a Free Church of Scotland chaplain to workmen engaged in constructing a bridge over the Danube. Edersheim accompanied Duncan on his return to Scotland and studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
