Oswald Thompson Allis

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Oswald Thompson Allis (1880-1973) received his doctorate from the University of Berlin, and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Hampden Sydney College in 1927. He taught in the Department of Semitic Philology at Princeton Theological Seminary (1910-1929). In 1929 Allis, J. Gresham Machen, Robert Dick Wilson and others founded Westminster Theological Seminary. 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 theologian who believed in the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch.

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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)
Unity of Isaiah
The New English Bible, the New Testament of 1961: A comparative study