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January 1825 A.D. Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) William Henry Green born
A few words from Wikipedia
about this “old Princetonian” who single-handedly defanged the
documentarians—but they didn’t believe it, but his work still stands.
William Henry Green (January 27, 1825 – February 10, 1900), American Hebrew scholar, was born in Groveville, near Bordentown, New Jersey.
Biography
He was descended in the sixth
generation from Jonathan Dickinson, first president of the College of New
Jersey (now Princeton University), and his ancestors had been closely connected with the Presbyterian
church. He graduated in 1840 from Lafayette College, where he was tutor in mathematics (1840–1842) and adjunct professor
(1843–1844). In 1846 he graduated from Princeton Theological
Seminary, and was instructor in Hebrew there from 1846 to 1849.
He was ordained in 1848 and was pastor
of the Central Presbyterian church of Philadelphia from 1849 to 1851. From
August 1851 until his death, in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 75, he was professor of Biblical and Oriental Literature in
Princeton Theological Seminary. From 1859 the title of his chair was Oriental
and Old Testament Literature.
In 1868 he refused the presidency of
Princeton College; as senior professor he was long acting head of the
Theological Seminary. His Grammar of the Hebrew Language (1861, revised
1888) was a distinct improvement in method on Gesenius, Rödiger, Ewald and Nordheimer. All his knowledge of Semitic
languages he used in a conservative Higher Criticism, which is maintained in
the following works:
- The Pentateuch Vindicated from the Aspersions of Bishop Colenso (1863)
- Moses and the Prophets (1883)
- The Hebrew Feasts in their Relation to Recent Critical Hypotheses Concerning the Pentateuch (1885)
- The Unity of the Book of Genesis (1895)
- The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch (1895)
- A General Introduction to the Old Testament, vol. i. Canon (1898), vol. ii. Text (1899)
He was the scholarly leader of the
orthodox wing of American Presbyterianism, and was the moderator of the General
Assembly of 1891. Green was chairman of the Old Testament committee of the Anglo-American Bible
revision committee.
References
See the articles by John D Davis in The
Biblical World, new series, vol. xv., pp. 406–413 (Chicago, 1900), and The Presbyterian
and Reformed Review, vol. xi. pp. 377–396
(Philadelphia, 1900).
External links
A Grammar of the Hebrew Language by William Henry
Green, 1872 Third Edition; PDF available on Internet Archive
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