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Farquhar, J. N. (John Nicol), 1861-1929 (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Farquhar, J. N. (John Nicol), 1861-1929
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The historicity of Christ, proving that the Christ of the New Testament is a myth and the Gospels spurious. A controversy between Thakur Kahanchandra Varma of Lahore, and Professor J.N. Farquhar of Calcutta, 1903

Wikipedia, viewed 11 July 2018 (John Nicol Farquhar (6 April 1861 - 17 July 1929) was a Scottish educational missionary to Calcutta, and an Orientalist. Farquhar was born at Aberdeen in 1861. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen University and served an apprenticeship as a draper, but he returned to school at an age of 21, and finished his studies at Oxford University. With no prior ordination, he was recruited by London Missionary Society as a lay educational missionary and sent to India in 1891. He spent the last six years of his life working as a professor of comparative religion in the University of Manchester. He died in Manchester in 1929.)

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