George Foot Moore (October 15, 1851 - May 16, 1931) He graduated from
Yale UniversityYale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five...
in 1872, where he was a member of
Skull and BonesSkull and Bones is a secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The society's alumni organization, which owns the society's real property and oversees the organization, is the Russell Trust Association, named for General William Huntington Russell, who co-founded Skull and Bones...
. He was awarded the highest theological qualifiction -
the D.D.Doctor of Divinity is an advanced academic degree in divinity. Historically, it identified one who had been licensed by a university to teach Christian theology or related religious subjects....
. He was Professor Emeritus 1928-31, Frothingham Professor of History Religion 1904-28, Professor of Theology,
Harvard UniversityHarvard University is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and currently comprises ten separate academic units...
, 1902-04; President 1899-1901, Professor of Hebrew, Andover Theological Seminary, 1883-1902. He was born in
West Chester, PennsylvaniaThe Borough of West Chester is the county seat of Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Philadelphia–Camden–Wilmington metropolitan area....
and died in
Cambridge, MassachusettsCambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, a nexus of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Notably, Cambridge is home to two internationally prominent...
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An eminent Asian scholar and a noted teacher, he wrote a number of books, including The Literature of the Old Testament (1913),History of Religions (Vol.
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George Foot Moore (October 15, 1851 - May 16, 1931) He graduated from
Yale UniversityYale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five...
in 1872, where he was a member of
Skull and BonesSkull and Bones is a secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The society's alumni organization, which owns the society's real property and oversees the organization, is the Russell Trust Association, named for General William Huntington Russell, who co-founded Skull and Bones...
. He was awarded the highest theological qualifiction -
the D.D.Doctor of Divinity is an advanced academic degree in divinity. Historically, it identified one who had been licensed by a university to teach Christian theology or related religious subjects....
. He was Professor Emeritus 1928-31, Frothingham Professor of History Religion 1904-28, Professor of Theology,
Harvard UniversityHarvard University is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and currently comprises ten separate academic units...
, 1902-04; President 1899-1901, Professor of Hebrew, Andover Theological Seminary, 1883-1902. He was born in
West Chester, PennsylvaniaThe Borough of West Chester is the county seat of Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Philadelphia–Camden–Wilmington metropolitan area....
and died in
Cambridge, MassachusettsCambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, a nexus of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Notably, Cambridge is home to two internationally prominent...
.
An eminent Asian scholar and a noted teacher, he wrote a number of books, including The Literature of the Old Testament (1913),History of Religions (Vol. I, 1913; Vol. II, 1919), Metempsychosis (The Ingersoll Lecture, 1914), and Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era (1927).
Among his technical writings, two stand out:
History of Religions (1914, 1919) and
Judaism (two volumes, 1927). He also contributed to the
Encyclopaedia BiblicaEncyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religion History, the Archeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible , edited by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, is a critical encyclopedia of the Bible. In Theology/Biblical studies, it is often...