Henry Owen

Henry Owen

and biblical scholar. In biblical scholarship he discussed the date of publication and the form and manner of the composition of the four canonical gospel accounts.

Life

He was the son of William Owen, born at his father's home near Cadair Idris, and educated at Ruthin School. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1736. There took his degrees in arts (B.A. 1739, M.A.1743), while also devoting himself to mathematical studies, before concentrating on medical studies (M.B. 1746, M.D. 1753).^[1][2]

Ordained to the

From 1769 to 1771 Owen was

Works

Owen's major work was Observations on the Four Gospels, tending chiefly to ascertain the time of their Publication, and to illustrate the form and manner of their Composition (1764). The "

Among Owen's other publications are:[7]

• Harmonia Trigonometrica, or A short treatise on Trigonometry (1748);
• The Intent and Propriety of the Scripture Miracles considered and explained (1755);
• An Enquiry into the present State of the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament (1769);
• Critica Sacra, or a short Introduction to Hebrew Criticism (1774); he replied, in a Supplement to this work, to comments on the Critic Sacra made by Raphael Baruch or Baruh in Critica Sacra Examined (1775).
  Sephardic immigrant in Britain from Livorno.^[9]
• Collatio codicis Cottoniani Geneseos cum editione Romana a Joanne Ernesto Grabe jam olim facta nunc demum summa cura edita ab Henrico Owen, M.D. (1778);
• A brief Account, historical and critical, of the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament, to which is added a Dissertation on the comparative Excellency of the Hebrew and Samaritan Pentateuch (1787);
• The Modes of Quotation used by the Evangelical Writers, explained and vindicated (1789).

Owen also helped to complete a number of works by William Bowyer, who published works of Owen: the two were on close terms.^[7][1]

Family

In 1760 Owen married Mary Butts, daughter of

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