William Sanday (theologian)

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The Reverend
William Sanday
FBA
Born(1843-08-01)1 August 1843
Holme Pierrepont, England
Died16 September 1920(1920-09-16) (aged 77)
Oxford, England
Spouse
Marian Hastings
​
(m. 1877)​
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Anglican)
ChurchChurch of England
Ordained
  • 1867 (deacon)
  • 1869 (priest)
Academic background
Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham
  • Exeter College, Oxford[1]
  • Christ Church, Oxford[1]
    • Influenced

    William Sanday

    University of Durham.[1]

    Biography

    Sanday was born in

    theologian and biblical scholar.[citation needed] He was ordained as a deacon in 1867 and as a priest in 1869.[7] In 1877 he married Marian Hastings, daughter of Woodman Hastings.[1]

    He was

    Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church between 1895 and 1919. He became a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1903 (one of the original cohort), and received an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree from the University of Cambridge in May 1902.[8]

    He also worked as one of the editors of the 1880

    The American Journal of Theology
    .

    Sanday died on 16 September 1920 in Oxford.[1]

    Works

    • Sanday, William (1872). The Authorship and Historical Character of the Fourth Gospel: considered in reference to the contents of the Gospel itself: a critical essay. London: Macmillan.
    • ——— (1876). The Gospels in the Second Century: an examination of the critical part of a work entitled "Supernatural religion".
      OCLC 551689940
      .
    • ———;
      Headlam, Arthur C. (1895). A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. International Critical Commentary
      . Edinburgh: T & T Clark.
    • ——— (1899). Outlines of the Life of Christ. New York: C. Scribner's Sons.
      OCLC 7108831. 1906 2nd edition
    • ——— (1907). The Life of Christ in Recent Research. New York: Oxford University Press.
      OCLC 3009845
      .
    • ——— (1911). Studies in the Synoptic Problem. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
      OCLC 753275
      .
    • ——— (1918). The New Testament Background. 1920 edition
    • ——— (2001). Essays in Biblical Criticism and Exegesis. Journal for the Study of the New Testament - Supplement series. Vol. 225. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
      OCLC 741687252
      .

    References

    Footnotes

    1. ^ a b c d e f g h Hawke 2004.
    2. ^ Chapman 1994, p. 95.
    3. ^ Hawke 2004; Plarr 1899, p. 963.
    4. ^ Chapman 1994, p. 101; Chapman 2001, p. 81.
    5. ^ Wilkinson 1971, p. 25.
    6. ^ Neville 1994, p. 125.
    7. ^ Plarr 1899, p. 963.
    8. ^ "University Intelligence". The Times. No. 36779. London. 28 May 1902. p. 12.

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