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JOSEPH HENRY THAYER (1828-1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 728 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:HENRY See also:THAYER (1828-1901)  , See also:American biblical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Boston on the 7th of See also:November 1828 . He studied at the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 185o . Subsequently he studied See also:theology at the Harvard Divinity School, and graduated at See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary in 1857 . He preached in See also:Quincy, and in 1859—64 in See also:Salem, See also:Massachusetts, and in 1862—63 was See also:chaplain of the 4oth Massachusetts See also:Volunteers . He was See also:professor of sacred literature in Andover Seminary in 1864—82, and in 1884 succeeded See also:Ezra See also:Abbot as Bussey professor of New Testament See also:criticism in the Harvard Divinity School . He died on the 26th of November 1901, soon after his resignation from the Bussey professorship . He was a member of the American See also:Bible Revision See also:Committee and recording secretary of the New Testament See also:company . His See also:chief See also:works were his See also:translation of See also:Grimm's Clavis Novi Testa-, menti (1887; revised 1889) as A See also:Greek-See also:English See also:Lexicon of the New Testament, and his New Testament bibliography (1890) .

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