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William Robertson Smith : essays in reassessment / edited by William Johnstone.

By: William Robertson Smith Congress (1994 : University of Aberdeen)
Contributor(s): Johnstone, William
Material type: TextTextSeries: Journal for the study of the Old Testament: 189.Publisher: Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 403 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 185075523XSubject(s): Smith, W. Robertson (William Robertson), 1846-1894 -- Congresses | Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- 19th century -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographies and index.Local Note: Copy 2 is from the collection of Professor R. Norman Whybray.Differentiable Local Note:
Contents:
Bible and confession in Scotland: the background to the Robertson Smith case / Alec C. Cheyne -- The school in the Free Church manse at Keig / Donald J. Withrington -- William Robertson Smith and the Academy of Old Deer -- The indemnity: William Robertson Smith and George Adam Smith / Alastair G. Hunter -- Samuel Davidson and William Robertson Smith: parallel cases? / R. Tomes -- William Robertson Smith in the nineteenth century in the light of his correspondence / Judith B. Shiel -- Scholarship and piety: the sermons of William Robertson Smith / Richard A. Riesen -- William Robertson Smith and the death of Christ / Malcolm A. Kinnear -- William Robertson Smith and the missionary movement / Andrew F. Walls -- 'To capture the modern universe of thought': Religion of the Semites as an attempt at a Christian comparative religion / Gillian M. Bediako -- W. R. Smith's The Old Testament in the Jewish Church: its antecedents, its influence and its abiding value / John W. Rogerson -- The biblical prophets as apologists for the Christian religion: reading William Robertson Smith's The Prophets of Israel today / Robert P. Carroll -- W. R. Smith's 'ehyeh 'aser 'ehyeh: five score years and eighteen / Meir Lubetski -- William Robertson Smith and the 'asherah' / Judith M. Hadley --
William Robertson Smith and the so-called new histories of Palestine / Keith W. Whitelam -- William Robertson Smith's hitherto unpublished second and third series of Burnett lectures on the religion of the Semites / John Day -- The Burnett lectures series two and three: William Robertson Smith as Christian and scholar / Carol Smith -- William Robertson Smith in relation to Hebraists and Jews at Christ's College, Cambridge / Stefan C. Reif -- William Robertson Smith and Julius Wellhausen / Rudolf Smend -- Some problems of writing a research history of Old Testament studies in the latter part of the nineteenth century--with special regard to the life and work of William Robertson Smith / Magne Saebo -- William Robertson Smith and the revival of American biblical studies / Warner M. Bailey -- William Robertson Smith and American anthropology: science, religion and interpretation / Susan Parman -- Demonology in William Robertson Smith's theory of religious belief / Mary Douglas -- William Robertson Smith and John Ferguson McLennan: the Aberdeen roots of British social anthropology / Peter Riviere -- William Robertson Smith and the anthropological study of myth / Aleksandar Boskovik --
William Robertson Smith and Frank Byron Jevons: faith and evolution / Douglas Davies -- Deity and the social bond: Robertson Smith and the psychoanalytic theory of religion / Harriet Lutzky -- A reconsideration of Frazer's relationship with Robertson Smith: the myth and the facts / Hushang Philsooph -- Smith versus Frazer on the comparative method / Robert A. Segal -- Robertson Smith and Arabic heroic narrative / Malcolm C. Lyons -- The use of Arabic in Hebrew lexicography: whence?, whither?, and why? / John F. Elwolde -- Orientalists and orientalisms: Robertson Smith and Edward W. Said / Jonathan Skinner -- Two unlikely travelling companions: Sir Richard Burton and William Robertson Smith in Egypt in 1880 / James A. Thrower -- The legacy of William Robertson Smith: reading the Hebrew Bible with Arabic-sensitized eyes / William Johnstone.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Bible and confession in Scotland: the background to the Robertson Smith case / Alec C. Cheyne -- The school in the Free Church manse at Keig / Donald J. Withrington -- William Robertson Smith and the Academy of Old Deer -- The indemnity: William Robertson Smith and George Adam Smith / Alastair G. Hunter -- Samuel Davidson and William Robertson Smith: parallel cases? / R. Tomes -- William Robertson Smith in the nineteenth century in the light of his correspondence / Judith B. Shiel -- Scholarship and piety: the sermons of William Robertson Smith / Richard A. Riesen -- William Robertson Smith and the death of Christ / Malcolm A. Kinnear -- William Robertson Smith and the missionary movement / Andrew F. Walls -- 'To capture the modern universe of thought': Religion of the Semites as an attempt at a Christian comparative religion / Gillian M. Bediako -- W. R. Smith's The Old Testament in the Jewish Church: its antecedents, its influence and its abiding value / John W. Rogerson -- The biblical prophets as apologists for the Christian religion: reading William Robertson Smith's The Prophets of Israel today / Robert P. Carroll -- W. R. Smith's 'ehyeh 'aser 'ehyeh: five score years and eighteen / Meir Lubetski -- William Robertson Smith and the 'asherah' / Judith M. Hadley --

William Robertson Smith and the so-called new histories of Palestine / Keith W. Whitelam -- William Robertson Smith's hitherto unpublished second and third series of Burnett lectures on the religion of the Semites / John Day -- The Burnett lectures series two and three: William Robertson Smith as Christian and scholar / Carol Smith -- William Robertson Smith in relation to Hebraists and Jews at Christ's College, Cambridge / Stefan C. Reif -- William Robertson Smith and Julius Wellhausen / Rudolf Smend -- Some problems of writing a research history of Old Testament studies in the latter part of the nineteenth century--with special regard to the life and work of William Robertson Smith / Magne Saebo -- William Robertson Smith and the revival of American biblical studies / Warner M. Bailey -- William Robertson Smith and American anthropology: science, religion and interpretation / Susan Parman -- Demonology in William Robertson Smith's theory of religious belief / Mary Douglas -- William Robertson Smith and John Ferguson McLennan: the Aberdeen roots of British social anthropology / Peter Riviere -- William Robertson Smith and the anthropological study of myth / Aleksandar Boskovik --

William Robertson Smith and Frank Byron Jevons: faith and evolution / Douglas Davies -- Deity and the social bond: Robertson Smith and the psychoanalytic theory of religion / Harriet Lutzky -- A reconsideration of Frazer's relationship with Robertson Smith: the myth and the facts / Hushang Philsooph -- Smith versus Frazer on the comparative method / Robert A. Segal -- Robertson Smith and Arabic heroic narrative / Malcolm C. Lyons -- The use of Arabic in Hebrew lexicography: whence?, whither?, and why? / John F. Elwolde -- Orientalists and orientalisms: Robertson Smith and Edward W. Said / Jonathan Skinner -- Two unlikely travelling companions: Sir Richard Burton and William Robertson Smith in Egypt in 1880 / James A. Thrower -- The legacy of William Robertson Smith: reading the Hebrew Bible with Arabic-sensitized eyes / William Johnstone.

Copy 2 is from the collection of Professor R. Norman Whybray.

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