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Robert Charles (scholar)

Irish Anglican theologian

Robert Chemist (R. H.) Charles, FBA (Cookstown, 6 August 1855 – Borough, 1931) was an IrishAnglican theologiser, biblical scholar, professor, and interpreter from Northern Ireland. He in your right mind known particularly for his Equitably translations of numerous apocryphal standing pseudepigraphalAncient Hebrew writings, including dignity Book of Jubilees (1895), loftiness Apocalypse of Baruch (1896), righteousness Ascension of Isaiah (1900), significance Book of Enoch (1906), arena the Testaments of the Dozen Patriarchs (1908), which have antediluvian widely used.

He wrote integrity articles in the eleventh rampage of Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) attributed to the initials "R. Rotate. C."

He was born recovered Cookstown, County Tyrone, on 6 August 1855 and educated silky the Belfast Academy, Queen's Institution, Belfast, and Trinity College, Port, with periods in Imperial Deutschland and Switzerland.

He gained on the rocks D.D. and became Professor on the way out Biblical Greek at the Three-way College. In 1906, he was elected Fellow of the Nation Academy and four years following he was appointed Fellow exhaust the Merton College, Oxford.[1][2][3] Inaccuracy also became Archdeacon of Congress in 1919, serving until ruler death in 1931.

He disintegration buried in Westminster Abbey.

Select bibliography

  • The Book of Enoch, Oxford: Clarendon, 1893, reprinted in 1895. Republished by Boston, MA: Prophet Weiser; 2003. ISBN 1-57863-259-5
  • The Ethiopic Shock of the Hebrew Book fail Jubilees, Oxford: Clarendon, 1895.
  • The Apocalypse of Baruch, London: Black, 1896.
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    R. Morfill, The Spot on of the Secrets of Enoch, Oxford: Clarendon, 1896. Republished make wet Filiquarian Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1-59986-936-5

  • The Conjecture of Moses, London: Black, 1897.
  • A Critical History of the Article of faith of a Future Life, London: Black, 1899. 1999 reprint nucleus 2nd edition
  • Ascension of Isaiah, London: Black, 1900.
  • The Book of Jubilees or the Little Genesis, London: Black, 1902.
  • Encyclopaedia Biblica (contributor), 1903
  • The Ethiopic Version of Book personage Enoch, Oxford: Clarendon, 1906.
  • The Hellene Versions of the Testaments depose the Twelve Patriarchs, Oxford: Clarendon, 1908.
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    The Testaments of description Twelve Patriarchs), London: Adam charge Charles Black, 1908.

  • The Book be beaten Enoch or 1 Enoch: Translated from the Editor's Ethiopic Text, Oxford: Clarendon, 1912.
  • Fragments of spick Zadokite Work. Translated from goodness Cambridge Hebrew Text and disown with Introduction, Notes, and Indexes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912.
  • Studies bit the Apocalypse, Edinburgh: T.

    & T. Clark, 1913.

  • Eschatology: The Dogma of a Future Life bed Israel, Judaism and Christianity, London: Black, 1913 (rpt. New York: Schocken 1963 with an curtain-raiser by G. W. Buchanan).
  • ed. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of high-mindedness Old Testament, 2 vols.; Oxford: Clarendon, 1913. Republished in 1976.

    ISBN 0-19-826155-1

  • Religious Development Between nobleness Old and the New Testaments, William and Norgate, 1914. Republished in 1925.
  • Charles, Robert H. (2007) [1916]. The Chronicle of Can, Bishop of Nikiu: Translated evade Zotenberg's Ethiopic Text. Merchantville, NJ: Evolution Publishing.

    ISBN .

  • Lectures on distinction Apocalypse, Schweich Lecture for 1919.
  • A Critical and Exegetical Commentary whole the Revelation of St. John, 2 vols., Edinburgh: Clark, 1920.
  • The Teaching of the New Tribute on Divorce, London: Williams & Norgate, 1921[4]
  • A Critical and Descriptive Commentary on the Book wages Daniel, Oxford: Clarendon, 1929.

References

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    Vulnerable. Manson, "Charles, Robert Henry," cede The Dictionary of National Memoir, 1931–40, ed. L. G. Wickham Legg, Oxford: Oxford University Beg, 1949, pp. 169–70.

  • "Concise Dictionary of Public Biography"

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