Norman Snaith

Norman Henry Snaith (1898-1982) was a British Old Testament scholar. He was Old Testament Professor at Wesley College, Leeds.

Life

Snaith was the son of a Primitive Methodist minister. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, reading mathematics before studying Semitic languages under George Buchanan Gray at Mansfield College. He became a Primitive Methodist minister, taking up pastoral work until appointed Professor at Wesley College in 1936. He became Principal of Wesley College in 1954, and retired in 1961.^[1]

Works

• Studies in the Psalter, 1934
• The distinctive ideas of the Old Testament, 1944
• The Jewish New Year festival, 1948
• The Jews from Cyrus to Herod, 1949
• Mercy and sacrifice; a study of the book of Hosea, 1953
• (ed.) Hebrew Old Testament, 1958
• (ed.) Leviticus and Numbers, 1967
• The Book of Job; its origin and purpose, 1968
• 'Prolegomenon', in Christian D. Ginsburg (ed. and tr.) Introduction to the Rabbinic Bible by Jacob ben Hayyim ibn Adonijah

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