Name R. Herford | ||
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Died 1950, Kelsall, United Kingdom Books Christianity in Talmud and Midrash, Talmud and Apocrypha, Pharisaism, Its Aim and Its Method | ||
Robert Travers Herford (1860–1950) was a British Unitarian minister and scholar of rabbinical literature.
He was the grandson of John Gooch Robberds and brother of Professor C. H. Herford, of Manchester University. Herford was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and Manchester New College, London (B.A. 1880) Then, as a Hibbert Scholar, he studied at the University of Leiden. From 1914 to 1925 he was librarian of Dr. Williams's Library, Grafton Street, London. In 1886 Herford's first effort in Talmudics appeared in an article on "The Jerusalem Talmud" contributed to The Christian Reformer. From 1914 to 1925 he lived in London, having been appointed to the charge of Dr. Williams' Library, .. breaking down the prejudices of both the learned and cultured laity. In 1928 another important volume of a more popular nature appeared, Judaism in the New Testament Period, published for the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Churches.
He was noted as one of the first Christian scholars of the Pharisees to take a neutral view between Talmud and New Testament.