William Robertson Smith
"William Robertson Smith (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 became popularly known because of his trial for heresy in the 1870's, following the publication of an article in the Encyclopædia Britannica. He is also known for his book Religion of the Semites, which is considered a foundational text in the comparative study of religion."
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth Edition
William Robertson Smith was the joint editor of this monumental work
Published in the period 1875-89, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth Edition was an immense work comprising 25 volumes and about 25 million words.It is known as the "Scholar's Edition" due to the great scholarship of its articles and the high caliber of its contributors.
The contributors included some of the great academics and experts of the late 19th century, such as Thomas Henry Huxley, Thomas Arnold, W S Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Frazer, and many more.
The Ninth Edition of the Britannica was reprinted with additional articles as the Tenth Edition in 1902.
Read more in my 1902 Encyclopedia lens, and visit the online version of this encyclopedia at 1902 Encyclopedia.
Books by William Robertson Smith
Lectures on the Religion of the Semites
Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 08/21/2008)
Lectures on the Religion of the Semites.: Second and Third Series ((Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Ser.; Vol. 183))
Amazon Price: $100.00 (as of 08/21/2008)
Articles by William Robertson Smith
- Angel (Britannica, 9th Edition)
- "ANGEL is a transcription of the Greek angellos, a messenger, but in signification corresponds to the special theological sense which the latter word assumed among the Hellenistic Jews (and hence in the New Testament and in Christian writings), by being adopted as the translation of the Hebrew Mal'akh. Thus both name and notion of angel go back to the Old Testament..."
- Bible (Britannica, 9th Edition)
- This is one of the main articles that led to William Robertson Smith's heresy trial.
- Nineveh (Britannica, 9th Edition)
- "NINEVEH..., the famous capital of the Assyrian empire, called Ninua or Nina on the monuments.
Through the city appears to have been entirely destroyed in the fall of the empire... the name of Nineveh (Syriac, Ninwe; Arabic, Nínawá, Núnawá) continued, even in the Middle Ages, to be applied to a site opposite Mosul on the east bank of the Tigris, where gigantic tells or artificial mounds, and the traces of an ancient city wall, bore evident witness of fallen greatness..."
Books about William Robertson Smith
Children of the Manse: Growing Up in Victorian Aberdeenshireby Alice Thiele Smith
What was it like to be a girl, born and brought up within a Free Kirk manse in the heart of Aberdeenshire during mid-Victorian times? Almost certainly no other account now exists that is in any way comparable to this fascinating story by Alice Thiele Smith, ninth of the eleven children born to Jane Robertson and Dr William Pirie Smith, Free Church minister of Keig near Alford. Alice was born in 1858, married a young German lad in 1883 and lived the rest of her life abroad. Late in life she wrote down the story of her childhood for the interest of her grandchildren.
It was only very recently that these unique memoirs were discovered and subsequently translated by her great-granddaughter, Astrid Hess, in collaboration with Dr Gordon Booth (a native of Aberdeenshire with a particular interest in Alice's famous brother, William Robertson Smith, Hebrew scholar and polymath, heretic in the eyes of his contemporaries yet now remembered as the Scottish pioneer of modern Biblical criticism and comparative religion).
Alice's tale, however, is not about her brother's tempestuous career but deals with the everyday interests and pleasures, as well as the numerous trials and petty restrictions, of a girl's upbringing within the confines of a home-life in the 1860s and 70s, where the Shorter Catechism ruled supreme and where illness and death were constant visitors. A respectable marriage tied to a lifetime of domesticity were the only legitimate female ambitions for surviving daughters such as Alice: how she resolves those frustrations with her big brother's aid is just part of this intriguing and illuminating book.
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Websites relating to William Robertson Smith
- William Robertson Smith (1846-94)
- William Robertson Smith: the scientific, literary and cultural context from 1866 to 1881.
- William Robertson Smith
- A short biography and a number of projects dedicated to William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) and other members of his family.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th and 10th Editions)
- Articles and illustrations from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th and 10th Editions), of which William Robertson Smith was joint editor.
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