Cheyne

Cheyne, THOMAS KELLY, one of the foremost Old Testament scholars in England, was born in London, September 18, 1841. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Worcester College, Oxford, he carried off among other honours the Chancellor's medal for the English essay, and became Fellow of Balliol College in 1869. He was rector of Tendring in Essex from 1881 to 1885, when he was appointed Oriel professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford, and Canon of Rochester. He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Company, and has contributed many articles on biblical questions to the magazines and reviews. A critic of ripe scholarship and remarkable clearness in exposition, free from the tendency to rash destructiveness that mars the work of so many of the best contemporary critics in Germany, he has done much to advance biblical science in England without weakening the real buttresses of the faith. His chief books are The Prophecies of Isaiah (1889; 3d ed. 1885); Exposi- tion of Jeremiah and Lamentations (1883); Book of Psalms (1888); Introduction to Isaiah (1895); Isaiah (revised text and translation, 1897-99).