Biography

He was born in 1880 and received his doctorate from the University of Berlin, and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity

Doctor of Divinity

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 degree from Hampden Sydney College in 1927. He taught in the Department of Semitic Philology at Princeton Theological Seminary

Princeton Theological Seminary

Princeton Theological Seminary is a theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church located in the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey in the United States...

 (1910–1929). In 1929 Allis, J. Gresham Machen, Robert Dick Wilson

Robert Dick Wilson

Robert Dick Wilson was an American linguist and Presbyterian scholar who devoted his life to prove the reliability of the Hebrew Bible...

 and others founded Westminster Theological Seminary

Westminster Theological Seminary

Westminster Theological Seminary is a Presbyterian and Reformed Christian graduate educational institution located in Glenside, Pennsylvania, with a satellite location in London.-History:...

. Allis was independently wealthy and it was his property in Philadelphia which initially served as the home of the new seminary. He taught at Westminster for six years, and resigned in 1935 to devote himself to writing and study. Two of his more notable works are Prophecy and the Church (1945) and God Spake By Moses (1951). Allis was a conservative Christian

Conservative Christianity

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 theologian who believed in the Mosaic

Moses

Moses was, according to the Hebrew Bible and Qur'an, a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed...

 authorship of the Pentateuch. He died in 1973.

Legacy

A festschrift

Festschrift

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 in his honor was published in 1974 under the title The Law and the Prophets. Contributors included Cornelius Van Til

Cornelius Van Til

Cornelius Van Til , born in Grootegast, the Netherlands, was a Christian philosopher, Reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist.-Biography:...

, John Murray

John Murray (theologian)

John Murray was a Scottish-born Calvinist theologian who taught at Princeton Seminary and then left to help found Westminster Theological Seminary, where he taught for many years.-Life:...

, R. Laird Harris

R. Laird Harris

Robert Laird Harris was an Presbyterian minister, church leader, and Old Testament scholar.-Biography:Harris was born near Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania. He earned a B.S. from the University of Delaware , a Th.B. and a Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary, an A.M. from University...

, Walter Kaiser

Walter Kaiser, Jr.

Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. is an American evangelical Old Testament scholar, writer, public speaker, and educator. Kaiser is the Colman M. Mockler distinguished Professor of Old Testament and former President of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, retired June 30, 2006...

, Allan Harman

Allan Harman

Allan Macdonald Harman is an Australian Presbyterian theologian and Old Testament scholar. He has been described as a "well-known and highly regarded figure in Christian and especially evangelical circles within Australia and overseas."...

, John Whitcomb

John C. Whitcomb

John Clement Whitcomb, Jr. is an American Old Testament theologian and young earth creationist. Whitcomb is sometimes credited for establishing the modern young earth creationist/creation science movement by authoring with Henry M...

, Meredith Kline and E. J. Young.

Books

• The Five Books Of Moses. The Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co. (1943)
• The Old Testament: Its Claims and Its Critics
• The Five Books of Moses: A reexamination of the modern theory that the Pentateuch is a late compilation from diverse and conflicting sources by authors and editors whose identity is completely unknown
• God Spake by Moses: An Exposition of the Pentateuch (1951)
• Prophecy and the Church: An examination of the claim of dispensationalists that the Christian church is a mystery parenthesis which interrupts the fulfilment ... the kingdom prophecies of the Old Testament (1945)
• The Unity of Isaiah: A Study in Prophecy (1977)
• The New English Bible, the New Testament of 1961: A comparative study

External links

• The Mosaic Tradition and the Consequences Of Rejecting it - excerpt from The Five Books of Moses by Allis