William Robertson Smith FRSE (8 November 1846 – 31 March 1894) was a Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity, and minister...
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Myth and ritual (section William Robertson Smith)
asserted for the first time by the bible scholar William Robertson Smith. The scholar Meletinsky notes that Smith introduced the concept "dogmatically." In his...
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dictionaries William Robertson Smith (1846–1894), Scottish philologist, physicist, archaeologist and Biblical critic William Benjamin Smith (1850–1934)...
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Nabla symbol (category William Rowan Hamilton)
for a Phoenician harp, and was suggested by the encyclopedist William Robertson Smith in an 1870 letter to Peter Guthrie Tait. The nabla symbol is available...
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Abuse and Loss" (PDF). Baylor University. Retrieved 11 July 2015. William Robertson Smith (1889). Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series....
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Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933) was a British Army officer who served...
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(1879), believed that it was probably the ruins of el-Beida, but William Robertson Smith (1899) expressed doubt about this identification. According to...
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Supreme Court William Robert Smith (1863–1924), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas (1903–1916) William Robertson Smith (1846–1894),...
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conscience of those who came to believe it did not fully do so (e.g. William Robertson Smith). Some Presbyterian Churches, such as the Free Church of Scotland...
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Indiana University Press. pp. 75. ISBN 0-253-31162-4. Smith, p. 167 Smith, pp. 70, 71 William Robertson Smith, Kinship and Marriage in early Arabia, (1885)...
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scholarly of all Britannicas. After 1880, Baynes was assisted by William Robertson Smith. No biographies of living persons were included. James Clerk Maxwell...
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presented for and against the transcription of the form Jehovah. William Robertson Smith summarizes these discourses, concluding that "whatever, therefore...
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William Robertson FRSE FSA Scot (19 September 1721 – 11 June 1793) was a Scottish historian, minister in the Church of Scotland, and Principal of the...
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river Orontes as a youth swimming under her feet. According to William Robertson Smith the Tyche of Antioch was originally a young virgin sacrificed at...
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groupings) with the theory of the sacrifice ritual taken from William Robertson Smith to conclude that the origins of totemism lie in a singular event...
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Edmonson), "William Robertson Smith and the Anthropological Study of Myth," at Tulane University in April 1993. William Robertson Smith remained part...
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William Alexander "Rip" Robertson Jr. (August 3, 1920 – December 1, 1970) was a United States Marine Corps officer—a combat veteran of the World War II...
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religion through the work of Max Müller, Edward Burnett Tylor, William Robertson Smith, James George Frazer, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Rudolf Otto...
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Australia. Robertson, Martin and Smith comprised a partnership of William B. Robertson, an English born engineer; John Martin; and William Smith. The company...
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historical-grammatical method; while the traditional evangelical scholar, William Robertson Smith, adhered to the historical-critical methods. Amid these controversies...
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and Frazer. William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) in Lectures of the Religion of the Semites (1899) proposed the idea of the totem. For Smith, social groups...
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criticism' of the Bible was a central approach taught by such as William Robertson Smith and he was dismissed from his chair by the Assembly in 1881. Attempts...
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the no less prominent British biblical scholar and orientalist William Robertson Smith, then came in 1885. Between the original publication and the translation...
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Fundamentalist–modernist controversy (section William Jennings Bryan and the General Assembly of 1923)
co-editor. In 1881, Briggs published an article in defense of William Robertson Smith which led to a series of responses and counter-responses between...
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hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory Mike Smith (1955–2022) Australian, Central Australia William Robertson Smith (1846–1894) Scottish; Orientalist, Biblical...
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Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades. Robertson portrayed...
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upon his son" or to "humiliate these famous warriors" and notes William Robertson Smith's comparison with Exodus 24:5, where young men of the children of...
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and Criticism in Victorian Britain: Profiles of F.D. Maurice and William Robertson Smith. Schmidt, Richard H. (2002). Glorious Companions: Five Centuries...
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Eben William Robertson (17 September 1815 – 3 June 1874) was a British historian. Robertson was born near the Leicestershire- Derbyshire border at Netherseale...
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Gallery at Edinburgh William Robertson, Historiographer Royal and Principal of the University of Edinburgh William Robertson Smith, orientalist and church...
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