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Informationen zum Autor Sir George Adam Smith was a Scottish theologian. He was the Principal of the University of Aberdeen from 1909 to 1935 and a prominent figure in the United Free Church of Scotland. He was born in Calcutta, where his father, George Smith, C.I.E., was the principal of Doveton College, a boys' school in Madras. His mother's name was Janet Colquhoun Smith. By 1870, the family had returned to Scotland and resided at Scagore House in Seafield, Edinburgh. He was educated at Edinburgh's Royal High School. He subsequently went on to study Divinity at the University of Edinburgh and New College, graduating with an MA in 1875. In 1892, he was appointed Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the Free Church College, Glasgow. He transferred from the Free Church of Scotland to the United Free Church of Scotland in 1900, when it was founded. He was appointed Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen in 1909 and served until his retirement in 1935. In 1916, he was chosen as a Fellow of the British Academy and knighted. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland from 1916 to 1917. In 1917, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers included John Horne, Cargill Gilston Knott, Ben Peach, and John Sutherland Black. Klappentext This two-volume work (1907-8), spanning more than fourteen centuries, expertly elucidates the topography, economics and history of ancient Jerusalem. Zusammenfassung This two-volume work by the biblical scholar and geographer Sir George Adam Smith (1856–1942) was first published in 1907–8. Illustrated throughout, it spans more than fourteen centuries from 1400 BCE to 70 CE. Volume 2 provides a thorough historical narrative of ancient Jerusalem's political and religious development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prefatory note; Table of the principal stages in the history; Part III. The History: 1. The prelude; 2. The conquest by David; 3. Solomon and the temple; 4. From Rehoboam to Ahaz; 5. Isaiah's Jerusalem, from 740 onwards; 6. Hezekiah and Sennacherib; 7. Jerusalem under Manasseh; 8. Josiah: Jerusalem and Deuteronomy; 9. Jeremiah's Jerusalem; 10. The desolate city; 11. The ideal city and the real; 12. The second temple, from Zechariah to Malachi; 13. Ezra and Nehemiah; 14. The rest of the Persian period; 15. The Jew and the Greek; 16. Jerusalem under the Maccabees and the Hasmoneans; 17. Herod, the Romans and Jerusalem; 18. Herod's castle and temple; 19. The temple and the Lord; 20. Jerusalem of the gospels; Appendix; General index; Special indexes....
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Sir George Adam Smith was a Scottish theologian. He was the Principal of the University of Aberdeen from 1909 to 1935 and a prominent figure in the United Free Church of Scotland. He was born in Calcutta, where his father, George Smith, C.I.E., was the principal of Doveton College, a boys' school in Madras. His mother's name was Janet Colquhoun Smith. By 1870, the family had returned to Scotland and resided at Scagore House in Seafield, Edinburgh. He was educated at Edinburgh's Royal High School. He subsequently went on to study Divinity at the University of Edinburgh and New College, graduating with an MA in 1875. In 1892, he was appointed Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the Free Church College, Glasgow. He transferred from the Free Church of Scotland to the United Free Church of Scotland in 1900, when it was founded. He was appointed Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen in 1909 and served until his retirement in 1935. In 1916, he was chosen as a Fellow of the British Academy and knighted. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland from 1916 to 1917. In 1917, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers included John Horne, Cargill Gilston Knott, Ben Peach, and John Sutherland Black.
