Charles Taylor (scholar)
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Charles Taylor (born in London 1840; died 1908[1]) was an English Christian Hebraist.
He was educated at King's College London, and St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he became Master in 1881. In 1874 he published an edition of Coheleth; in 1877 Sayings of the Jewish Fathers[2], an elaborate edition of the Pirḳe Abot (2 ed., 1897); and in 1899 a valuable appendix giving a list of manuscripts.
Taylor discovered the Jewish source of the Didache in his Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, 1886, and published also an Essay on the Theology of the Didache, 1889.
Taylor took great interest in Solomon Schechter's work in Cairo, and the genizah fragments presented to the University of Cambridge are known as the Taylor-Schechter Collection[3]. He was joint editor with Schechter of The Wisdom of Ben Sira, 1899. He published separately Cairo Ganizah Palimpsests, 1900.
He wrote also several works on geometry and participated in the creation and running of the journal Messenger of Mathematics.
[edit] References
- Who's Who in England
[edit] Notes
- ^ Janus: Papers of Charles Taylor
- ^ Online text Sayings of the Jewish Fathers.
- ^ A Priceless Collection
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This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
