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SAMUEL DAVIDSON (1807-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 864 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL See also:DAVIDSON (1807-1898)  , Irish biblical See also:scholar, was See also:born near See also:Ballymena in See also:Ireland . He was educated at the Royal See also:College of See also:Belfast, entered the Presbyterian See also:ministry in 1835, and was appointed See also:professor of biblical See also:criticism at his own college . Becoming a Congregationalist, he accepted in 1842 the See also:chair of biblical criticism, literature and See also:oriental See also:languages at the See also:Lancashire See also:Independent College at See also:Manchester; but he was obliged to resign in 1857, being brought into collision with the college authorities by the publication of an introduction to the Old Testament entitled The See also:Text of the Old Testament, and the See also:Interpretation of the See also:Bible, written for a new edition of See also:Horne's Introduction to the Sacred Scripture . Its liberal tendencies caused him to be accused of unsound views, and a most exhaustive See also:report prepared by the Lancashire College See also:committee was followed by numerous See also:pamphlets for and against . After his resignation a fund of £3000 was subscribed as a testimonial by his See also:friends . In 1862 he removed to See also:London to become scripture examiner in London University, and he spent the See also:rest of his See also:life in See also:literary See also:work . He died on the 1st of See also:April 1898 . See also:Davidson was a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee . Among his See also:principal See also:works are; Sacred See also:Hermeneutics See also:Developed and Applied (1843), rewritten and republished as A See also:Treatise on Biblical Criticism (1852), Lectures on Ecclesiastical Polity (1848), An Introduction to the New Testament (1848-1851), The See also:Hebrew Text of the Old Testament Revised (1855), Introduction to the Old Testament (1862), On a Fresh Revision of the Old Testament (1893), The See also:Canon of the Bible (1877), TheDoctrine of Last Things in the New Testament (1883), besides See also:translations of the New Testament from Von See also:Tischendorf's text, See also:Gieseler's Ecclesiastical See also:History (1846) and See also:Furst's Hebrew and See also:Chaldee See also:Lexicon .

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