George Foot Moore

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George Foot Moore (born October 15, 1851 in West Chester , Pennsylvania , † May 16, 1931 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American theologian , religious historian and Judaist at Harvard University .

Life

Moore earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1872 and then studied theology - in addition to working as a teacher - at Union Theological Seminary in New York . After he was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1878, he was a minister in Zanesville , Ohio until 1883 .

From 1883 Moore held a professorship for Hebrew language and literature at Andover Theological Seminary , which he headed from 1899 to 1901 as president. In 1902 he received a professorship in theology at Harvard University . In 1904 he became Frothingham Professor of Religious History, a position he held until his retirement in 1928. He was succeeded by Arthur Darby Nock . 1909/1910 Moore held a visiting professorship at the University of Berlin . Harry Austryn Wolfson was one of his students.

George F. More was particularly concerned with the Hexateuch and the Book of Judges . He was considered an expert on the Hebrew Bible and the history of Judaism . His monumental three-volume work Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era was considered groundbreaking in that it did not attempt to interpret Jewish sources from a (later) Christian perspective. From 1908 to 1914 and from 1921 to 1931 Moore was editor of the Harvard Theological Review , from 1889 to 1894 of the Journal of Biblical Literature and from 1896 to 1899 of the Journal of the American Oriental Society .

In 1906 Moore was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , of which he was president from 1921 to 1924, and in 1920 to the American Philosophical Society . He held honorary doctorates from the following universities: Marietta College (1885), Yale University (1897), University of Göttingen (1909), Western Reserve University (1903), Harvard University (1906), Hebrew Union College (1925), Jewish Institute of Religion (1927) ), Jewish Theological Seminary (1930). He was President of the American Oriental Society from 1911 to 1913 and President of the Massachusetts Historical Society from 1935 to 1927 .

George Foot Moore was married to Mary Soper Hanford († 1924) since 1878; the couple had two sons, one of whom died in childhood.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rodney L. Petersen: Divinings: Religion at Harvard . 2nd Edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014, ISBN 978-3-647-55056-5 , pp. 174 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ George F. Moore. In: amphilsoc.org. American Philosophical Society , accessed April 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Moore, George Foot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moore, George F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian, religious historian, and Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH West Chester , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1931
Place of death Cambridge , Massachusetts