Stanley Arthur Cook

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Stanley Arthur Cook (12 April 1873 – 26 September 1949) was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1932 to 1938.[1][2]

Cook was born in

Encyclopedia Biblica, in 1904 he was appointed a college lecturer (at Caius) in Hebrew, a position he maintained until his appointment as Regius Professor in 1932. He was also a university lecturer in comparative religion from 1912 to 1920 and joint editor of The Cambridge Ancient History.[2]

Cook married Annette Bell, who predeceased him.[2] He died in Cambridge on 26 September 1949.

Select Publications

  • Critical Notes on Old Testament History: the Traditions of Saul and David (1907)
  • The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Second Millenium B.C. (1908)
  • The Foundations of Religion (1914)
  • The Study of Religions (1914)
  • The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Light of Archaeology (1930)
  • Ethical Monotheism in the Light of Comparative Religion (1932)
  • The Old Testament: a Reinterpretation (1936)
  • The “Truth” of the Bible (1938)
  • The Rebirth of Christianity (1942)

References

  1. ^ a b "Cook, Stanley Arthur (CK891SA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^
    Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 2019 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Cambridge University

1932–1938
Succeeded by
David Winton Thomas