Word: rendell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possibly Jesus was a man short of stature, possibly only about 5 ft. 2 in. Such last week was the British analysis attributed to Dr. James Rendel Harris, curator of MSS at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, Eng. Dr. Harris is one of the greatest living authorities on biblical history and texts. At one time he was a professor at Johns Hopkins University. Most of his life he has spent in the East searching for manuscripts. Thus in a Syriac document of the Eighth Century, just deciphered, he has found this reference to Christ's stature: "Thy stature...