Davidson, SAMUEL, D.D., LL.D.

Davidson, SAMUEL, D.D., LL.D., one of the ablest of English exegetes, born near Ballymena in Ireland in 1807, educated at the Royal College of Belfast, entered the Presbyterian ministry, and was called in 1835 to the chair of Biblical Criticism in his own college. Becoming a Congregationalist, he was called in 1842 to the chair of Biblical Literature and Oriental Languages in the Congregationalist College at Manchester; a position which he was compelled to resign in 1857 on the publication of the volume which he contributed to a new edition of Horne's Introduction. He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee. He died 1st April 1898, and his Autobiography, edited by his daughter, appeared in the next year. His works are Sacred Hermeneutics (1843), Lectures on Ecclesiastical Polity (1848), An Introduction to the New Testament (3 vols. 1848-51), Treatise on Biblical Criticism (2 vols. 1852), The Hebrew Text of the Old Testament revised (1855), Text of the Old Testament, and the Interpretation of the Bible, for the new edition of Horne's Introduction (1856); Introduction to the Old Testament (3 vols. 1862), An Introduction to the New Testament (2 vols. 1868), On a fresh Revision of the English Old Testament (1873), The Canon of the Bible (1877), The Doctrine of Last Things (1883); besides translations of the New Testament from Tischendorf's text, of Gieseler's Church History, and Fürst's Hebrew Lexicon.