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William Robertson Smith - His Life, his Work and his Times (Hardcover)
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William Robertson Smith - His Life, his Work and his Times (Hardcover)
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 67
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William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) was successively the embattled
champion of the emergent "higher criticism" as applied to the Old
Testament, chief editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and
Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. Today he is
acknowledged to have been a pioneering figure in both social
anthropology and the study of comparative religion, deeply
influencing the thinking of J. G. Frazer, Emile Durkheim and
Sigmund Freud. The first full-length biography of Robertson Smith
to be published for almost a hundred years, this text makes use of
hitherto unknown material preserved by the Smith family and draws
upon the extensive range of correspondence between Smith and such
scholars as Albrecht Ritschl, Paul de Lagarde, Julius Wellhausen,
Abraham Kuenen and Theodor Nöldeke. Adopting an interdisciplinary
approach, the biography locates and defines the place of this
remarkable polymath within the context of Free Church Calvinism,
the Scottish Enlightenment and 19th century German Protestant
theology. It highlights Smith's interest in physics and philosophy,
his friendship with contemporary artists, his Oriental travels, and
his involvement in the social life of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. In
recent years, the image of Smith as a comparative religionist has
come to dominate all other perspectives and indeed tends now to
overshadow his fame as an Old Testament scholar. This book seeks to
redress the balance, aiming to discover the theological drive
behind Smith's manifold activities.
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