Occupation Scholar | Name Norman Snaith | |
Full Name Norman Henry Snaith Died 1982, Ipswich, United Kingdom Books The distinctive ideas of the Old Testament Education Manchester Grammar School, University of Cambridge | ||
Norman Henry Snaith (1898–1982) was a British Old Testament scholar and a Professor at Wesley College, Leeds.
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Education and early life
Snaith was the son of a Primitive Methodist minister. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, reading mathematics before studying Semitic languages under George Buchanan Gray at Mansfield College.
Career
Snaith became a Primitive Methodist minister, taking up pastoral work until appointed Professor of Old Testament at Wesley College in 1936. He became Principal of Wesley College in 1954, and retired in 1961. In 1957, Snaith was president of the Society for Old Testament Study.
Publications by Snaith
References
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