Abbot, EZRA

Abbot, EZRA, scholar and biblical critic, was born in Jackson, Maine, April 28, 1819. He studied at Bowdoin College; and in 1856 became assistant-librarian at Harvard University. He furnished important contributions to the Bibliotheca Saera, the Unitarian Review, and other periodicals, and was a member of the New Testament Revision Company. In 1872 he was chosen professor of New Testament Criticism in the Harvard Divinity School. Among his works are New Discussions of the Trinity, Literature of the Doctrine of a Future Life, and The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel. He was LL.D. of Yale, and D.D. of Harvard. He died March 21, 1884.