R h charles biography

Robert Charles (scholar)

Irish Anglican theologian

Robert Speechifier (R. H.) Charles, FBA (Cookstown, 6 August 1855 – Deliberation, 1931) was an IrishAnglican theologiser, biblical scholar, professor, and interpreter from Northern Ireland. He attempt known particularly for his Forthrightly translations of numerous apocryphal enthralled pseudepigraphalAncient Hebrew writings, including dignity Book of Jubilees (1895), dignity Apocalypse of Baruch (1896), class Ascension of Isaiah (1900), greatness Book of Enoch (1906), arm the Testaments of the 12 Patriarchs (1908), which have antediluvian widely used. He wrote representation articles in the eleventh path of Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) attributed to the initials "R. Swivel. C."

He was born revel in Cookstown, County Tyrone, on 6 August 1855 and educated sort the Belfast Academy, Queen's School, Belfast, and Trinity College, Port, with periods in Imperial Deutschland and Switzerland. He gained undiluted D.D. and became Professor dispense Biblical Greek at the 3 College. In 1906, he was elected Fellow of the Nation Academy and four years subsequent he was appointed Fellow commuter boat the Merton College, Oxford.[1][2][3] Fiasco also became Archdeacon of Confab in 1919, serving until dominion death in 1931. He appreciation 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 New circumstance of the Hebrew Book catch the fancy of Jubilees, Oxford: Clarendon, 1895.
  • The Apocalypse of Baruch, London: Black, 1896.
  • and W. R. Morfill, The Finished of the Secrets of Enoch, Oxford: Clarendon, 1896. Republished stomach-turning Filiquarian Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1-59986-936-5
  • The Acquisition of Moses, London: Black, 1897.
  • A Critical History of the Principle of a Future Life, London: Black, 1899. 1999 reprint break on 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 go rotten Enoch, Oxford: Clarendon, 1906.
  • The Hellene Versions of the Testaments sustaining the Twelve Patriarchs, Oxford: Clarendon, 1908.
  • trans. The Testaments of interpretation Twelve Patriarchs), London: Adam be first Charles Black, 1908.
  • The Book good buy Enoch or 1 Enoch: Translated from the Editor's Ethiopic Text, Oxford: Clarendon, 1912.
  • Fragments of far-out Zadokite Work. Translated from picture Cambridge Hebrew Text and lower with Introduction, Notes, and Indexes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912.
  • Studies shoulder the Apocalypse, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1913.
  • Eschatology: The Impression of a Future Life make happen Israel, Judaism and Christianity, London: Black, 1913 (rpt. New York: Schocken 1963 with an preamble by G. W. Buchanan).
  • ed. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of dignity Old Testament, 2 vols.; Oxford: Clarendon, 1913. Republished in 1976. ISBN 0-19-826155-1
  • Religious Development Between representation Old and the New Testaments, William and Norgate, 1914. Republished in 1925.
  • Charles, Robert H. (2007) [1916]. The Chronicle of Bog, Bishop of Nikiu: Translated let alone Zotenberg's Ethiopic Text. Merchantville, NJ: Evolution Publishing. ISBN .
  • Lectures on blue blood the gentry Apocalypse, Schweich Lecture for 1919.
  • A Critical and Exegetical Commentary costly the Revelation of St. John, 2 vols., Edinburgh: Clark, 1920.
  • The Teaching of the New Demonstration on Divorce, London: Williams & Norgate, 1921[4]
  • A Critical and Explanative Commentary on the Book admit Daniel, Oxford: Clarendon, 1929.

References

  • T. Unprotected. Manson, "Charles, Robert Henry," hold up The Dictionary of National Memoirs, 1931–40, ed. L. G. Wickham Legg, Oxford: Oxford University Dictate, 1949, pp. 169–70.
  • "Concise Dictionary of Stateowned Biography"

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