Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...David Gordon Lyon S.T.D. '01, professor at the University for nearly forty years will retire next summer from the Hancock professorship of Hebrew and other Oriental languages. He has been appointed professor emeritus by the Governing Boards of the University, the appointment to take effect September...
...Semitic Museum. In 1906 he went to Samaria to undertake excavations there, and discovered the earliest specimens of writing ever found in Palestine. Four years later he assumed the Hancock professorship upon the retirement of his colleague, Professor Toy. He has given courses at the University in the Hebrew and Assyrian languages and in Old Testament History, and has long been recognized as a leading authority in his field...
...clock tonight in the Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House, Professor Max L. Margolis, Professor of Biblical Philology at Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning at Philadelphia, will address the Menorah Society. His subject will be "The Bible in the Making". The meeting is open to all members of the University...
...people which has remained faithful to its ideals throughout many trials and tribulations. The best Jews of the world, who themselves do not intend to become returning pilgrims, are lending a helping hand in this great work of restoration. Among the sponsors for the establishment of a Hebrew university in Jerusalem are Bergson and Einstein. The latter is now on a special mission to this country for this particular purpose...
That purpose has been differently apprehended at different times in the history of theological education. At first it meant a thorough knowledge of the Hebrew and Greek languages, and consequent ability to interpret the Bible correctly. That idea has almost disappeared. Few recent graduates of the Harvard Divinity School have studied Hebrew, and a knowledge of Greek is not required for its degree. There are, however, subjects which a learned minister is expected to know--the Bible, church history, theology,--and which form a large part of the curriculum of all Divinity schools, but of late there have been significant...