George Foot Moore
George Foot Moore | |
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Union Theological Seminary (New York), Marietta College | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Ancient Near Eastern studies |
Sub-discipline | Judaic history |
Institutions | Hopkins Grammar School Lancaster (Ohio) High School Putnam Presbyterian Church Andover Theological Seminary Harvard Divinity School |
George Foot Moore (October 15, 1851 – May 16, 1931) was an American historian of religion, author, professor, and Presbyterian minister.
Life
Moore was born in
In 1883 he was appointed to the chair of Hebrew at Andover Theological Seminary where he taught until 1902, serving as president of the seminary from 1899 to 1901 and lectured on the history of religion from 1893 to 1901. During his service to Andover, he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1885 from Marietta College, Ohio, and 12 years later, from Yale University in 1897. In 1902, he became a professor at the Harvard Divinity School, where he was appointed Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion in 1905, and Cabot Fellow for three years beginning in 1906. During his service at Harvard he obtained a degree of Legum Doctor in 1903 from Western Reserve University. He was a member of Harvard faculty from 1902 until retirement in 1928 and a preacher to the University from 1900 to 1903.[2]
Moore was a member of the
Moore served as an interim pastor and preacher at Central Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island from 1888-1889. He also preached at the dedication of the new building in 1893, and at the 50th Anniversary of the congregation in 1902.[7]
Mrs. Mary Soper Moore died April 16, 1924. Moore died 7 years later due to general arteriosclerosis and chronic myocarditis, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 16, 1931.[2]
Works
Books
- Moore, George Foot (1895). A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Judges. OCLC 860107.
- ——— (1898). The Book of Judges: A New English Translation Printed in Colors Exhibiting the Composite Structure of the Book. Sacred Books of the Old and New Testaments, part 7.; Polychrome Bible. London ; New York: J. Clark ; Dodd, Mead, and Co. OCLC 3343798.
- ———; Harper, Robert Francis; OCLC 3220423.
- ——— (1911). The Covenanters of Damascus: a Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect. Cambridge, Massachusetts. )
- ———; OCLC 2303663.
- ——— (1913). The Literature of the Old Testament. Home University Library of Modern Knowledge. Vol. 65. New York ; London: H. Holt and Co. ; Williams and Norgate.
- ——— (1913). History of religions, Volume 1: China, Japan, Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, India, Persia, Greece, Rome. The International Theological Library. Edinburgh: T & T Clark. OCLC 314138945.
- ——— (1914). Metempsychosis. Ingersoll Lecture, 1914. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
- ——— (1923). The Birth and Growth of Religion: Being the Morse Lectures of 1922. Morse Lectures, 1922. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. OCLC 322865.
- ———; Gray, Louis Herbert, eds. (1916). The Mythology of All Races. Marshall Jones Co. - a 13 volume series published between 1916 and 1923.
- History of Religions (Vol. I, 1913; Vol. II, 1919)
- ——— (1919). History of Religions, Volume 2: Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism. The International Theological Library. Edinburgh: T & T Clark.
- ——— (1927). Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era: the age of the tannaim. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. OCLC 377315. - original published in 3 vols between 1927 and 1930
- Editor (unfinished work), Albert Pike, Materials For The history of Freemasonry In France and Elsewhere on The Continent of Europe From 1718 To 1859, circa 1905, detached from "The New Age" magazine.
- ——— (2007). Christian Writers on Judaism: nineteen centuries of apologetics and polemics. Analecta Gorgiana. Vol. 7. Piscataway: Gorgias Press. OCLC 171130703. - reprint of journal article
Chapters
- ——— (1912). "The Theological School at Nisibis". In ———; OCLC 2303663.
Articles
- ——— (1921). "Christian Writers on Judaism: nineteen centuries of apologetics and polemics". S2CID 163273892.
- Moore, George Foot (1912). "Zoroastrianism". S2CID 248817425.
References
- ^ a b c The Harvard graduates' magazine, Volume 15 Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association, 1907
- ^ a b c d "Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year 1930-1931" (PDF). Yale University. 1 December 1931. p. 31. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
- ^ "George Foot Moore". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-16. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ^ a b "George Foot Moore". Harvard Divinity School at the Turn of the 20th Century. Harvard Divinity School Library. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903), list of contributors
- ^ Historical manual of the Central Congregational Church, Providence, R.I. 1852-1902. Providence: E.L. Freeman & Sons. 1902. p. 8.
- ^ Moore, George Foot (1913). "The Literature of the Old Testament". Retrieved May 12, 2016.
- ^ "The Ingersoll Lecture, 1914, Metempsychosis". Retrieved May 12, 2016.
- ^ Moore, George Foot (1922). "History of Religions: China, Japan, Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, India, Persia, Greece, Rome". Retrieved May 12, 2016.
External links
Works by or about George Foot Moore at Wikisource