Oswald Thompson Allis

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O. T. Allis
University of Berlin
Occupation(s)Professor, writer

Oswald Thompson Allis (September 9, 1880 – January 12, 1973) was an American Presbyterian

Bible scholar
.

Biography

He was born in 1880 and studied at the

Hampden Sydney College
in 1927.

Allis taught in the Department of Semitic Philology at

Princeton Theological Review from 1918 to 1929.[2] In 1946 he lectured at Columbia Theological Seminary.[3]

Allis also condemned dispensationalism as a modern error in his journal article, 'Modern Dispensationalism and the Doctrine of the Unity of Scripture,' published in the Evangelical Quarterly (1936): "[i]f Higher Criticism is the error of the Bible-disbeliever, “Dispensationalism “, as it is called, is the error of many a Bible-believer."

Legacy

A

.

Books

  • The Five Books of Moses. The Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co. (1943)
  • The Old Testament: Its Claims and Its Critics
  • The Five Books of Moses: A reexamination of the modern theory that the Pentateuch is a late compilation from diverse and conflicting sources by authors and editors whose identity is completely unknown
  • God Spake by Moses: An Exposition of the Pentateuch (1951)
  • Prophecy and the Church: An examination of the claim of dispensationalists that the Christian church is a mystery parenthesis which interrupts the fulfilment ... the kingdom prophecies of the Old Testament (1945)
  • The Unity of Isaiah: A Study in Prophecy (1977)
  • Dr. Moffat's "New Translation " of the Old Testament
  • The New English Bible, the New Testament of 1961: A comparative study
  • Revision or New Translation?: The Revised Standard Version of 1946: A comparative study

References

  1. ^ Skilton, John H (1999). "Oswald T. Allis". Bible Interpreters of the 20th Century. p. 122.
  2. ^ a b Skilton, "Oswald T. Allis," 129.
  3. ^ Todd, Galbraith Hall (1974). "Oswald Thompson Allis". In Skilton, John H (ed.). The Law and the Prophets. p. 18.

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