James Rendel Harris
James Rendel Harris , also J. Rendel Harris or just Rendel Harris, (born January 27, 1852 in Plymouth , Devon , † March 1, 1941 in Birmingham ) was a British biblical scholar and curator of the manuscripts of the John Rylands Library , Manchester , who especially dedicated to the research of the Syrian manuscripts . His connections with St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai enabled Agnes Smith-Lewis and her sister Margaret Dunlop Gibson to discover the Old Syrian NT translation . He was a Quaker .
He attended Clare College , Cambridge , where he was a Fellow in Mathematics from 1875 to 1878, 1892, and from 1902 to 1904. Harris spent much time in the Middle East. 1882–85 he was also professor of New Testament and Ancient Greek at Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , USA and at Haverford College (1882–92). 1889–90 he acquired 47 Hebrew , Latin , Arabic , Syrian , Armenian and ancient Ethiopian manuscripts on biblical and grammatical subjects, dating from the 13th century. He taught theology in Leiden from 1903 to 1904 and was then Director of Studies of the Society of Friends at Woodbrooke College near Birmingham . Since 1927 he was a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .
Fonts
- New Testament autographs (1882)
- Notes on Scriveners' "Plain introduction to the criticism of the New Testament," 3rd edition [microform] (1885)
- The Origin of the Leicester Codex of the New Testament . CJ Clay & Sons, London 1877.
- Biblical fragments from Mount Sinai (1890)
- The codex Sangallensis (Δ). A Study in the Text of the Old Latin Gospels , (London, 1891).
- Codex Bezae: a study of the so-called Western text of the New Testament (1893)
- Memoranda sacra (1893)
- Stichometry (London 1893).
- Four lectures on the western text of the New Testament (1894)
- The four Gospels in Syriac: transcribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest (1894)
- Fragments of the commentary of Ephrem Syrus upon the Diatessaron (1895)
- Further researches into the history of the Ferrar group (1900)
- An early Christian psalter (1909)
- Boanerges (1913)
- The origin of the prologue to St. John's Gospel (1917)
- The origin of the doctrine of the Trinity, a popular exposition (1919)
literature
- Claus Bernet : James Rendel Harris. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 30, Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6 , Sp. 557-569.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernet, Claus, in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL), Volume 30, Nordhausen 2009 http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/h/harris_j_r.shtml ( Memento from April 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 7, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harris, James Rendel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harris, J. Rendel; Harris, Rendel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plymouth , Devon |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1941 |
| Place of death | Birmingham |