William Robertson Smith

Lectures on the Religion of the Semites (Second and Third Series) (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Day, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The outstanding nineteenth-century biblical scholar and Semitist William Robertson Smith gave three courses of Burnett Lectures on the Religion of the Semites at Aberdeen just over a century ago. The first series, published in 1889 (2nd edn, 1894), has long been a classic work. The second and third series were never published, owing to the author's ill health; however, the manuscript of them still exists in the Cambridge University Library and was recently discovered by John Day, who has produced this edited version of the work to commemorate the centenary of Smith's death. The Lectures, which constitute a work of considerable Semitic and Classical learning, are on the following subjects: Feasts, Priests and the Priestly Oracle, Prophecy and Divination, Semitic Polytheism and Cosmogony. Dr Day has written an Introduction, which evaluates the work and includes nineteenth-century press reports of the Lectures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567618245
• Artikelnr.: 40775379

Autorenporträt

William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) was a pioneer of historical criticism in Great Britain. He was educated at the universities in Aberdeen and Edinburgh and was Chair of Hebrew and Old Testament at Free Church College, Aberdeen. Smith was dismissed from Aberdeen in 1881 on a charge of heresy. In 1883 he moved to Cambridge as reader in Arabic and member of Trinity College.