Robert Charles (scholar)

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Robert Henry (R. H.) Charles,

pseudepigraphal Ancient Hebrew writings, including the Book of Jubilees (1895), the Apocalypse of Baruch (1896), the Ascension of Isaiah (1900), the Book of Enoch (1906), and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (1908), which have been widely used. He wrote the articles in the eleventh edition of Encyclopædia Britannica
(1911) attributed to the initials "R. H. C."

He was born in

Biblical Greek at the Trinity College. In 1906, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy and four years later he was appointed Fellow of the Merton College, Oxford.[1][2][3]
He also became Archdeacon of Westminster in 1919, serving until his death in 1931. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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References

  1. ^ "R.H. Charles Papers". Archives Hub. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  2. ^ Robert Henry Charles (1913). Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English, with introduction and critical and explanatory notes to the several books. Vol. II–Pseudoepigrapha. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 76.
  4. ^ Headlam, Arthur C. (July 1921). "Review of The Teaching of the New Testament on Divorce by R. H. Charles". The Church Quarterly. 92: 210–235.
  • T. W. Manson, "Charles, Robert Henry," in The Dictionary of National Biography, 1931–40, ed. L. G. Wickham Legg, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949, pp. 169–70.
  • "Concise Dictionary of National Biography"

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