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See also: scholar, was See also: born near See also: Ballymena in See also: Ireland
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He was educated at the Royal See also: College of See also: Belfast, entered the Presbyterian See also: ministry in 1835, and was appointed professor of biblical See also: criticism at his own college
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Becoming a Congregationalist, he accepted in 1842 the chair of biblical criticism, literature and See also: oriental See also: languages at the See also: Lancashire See also: Independent College at 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 Text of the Old Testament, and the Interpretation of the See also: Bible, written for a new edition of See also: Horne's Introduction to the Sacred Scripture
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Its liberal tendencies caused him to be accused of unsound views, and a most exhaustive report prepared by the Lancashire College committee was followed by numerous See also: pamphlets for and against
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After his resignation a fund of £3000 was subscribed as a testimonial by his See also: friends
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In 1862 he removed to See also: London to become scripture examiner in London University, and he spent the rest of his See also: life in See also: literary See also: work
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He died on the 1st of See also: April 1898
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See also: Davidson was a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee
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Among his See also: principal See also: works are; Sacred 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 Tischendorf's text, Gieseler's Ecclesiastical See also: History (1846) and See also: Furst's Hebrew and See also: Chaldee See also: Lexicon
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