British orientalist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland
William Robertson Smith
Born
8 November 1846 Keig, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Died
31 March 1894(1894-03-31) (aged 47) Cambridge, England
Occupation
Minister of religion, theologian, Semitic scholar
Alma mater
New College, Edinburgh
Notable works
Religion of the Semites
William Robertson SmithFRSE (8 November 1846 – 31 March 1894) was a Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity, and minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was an editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica. He is also known for his book Religion of the Semites, which is considered a foundational text in the comparative study of religion.
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conscience of those who came to believe it did not fully do so (e.g. WilliamRobertsonSmith). Some Presbyterian Churches, such as the Free Church of Scotland...
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(1879), believed that it was probably the ruins of el-Beida, but WilliamRobertsonSmith (1899) expressed doubt about this identification. According to...
presented for and against the transcription of the form Jehovah. WilliamRobertsonSmith summarizes these discourses, concluding that "whatever, therefore...
river Orontes as a youth swimming under her feet. According to WilliamRobertsonSmith the Tyche of Antioch was originally a young virgin sacrificed at...
groupings) with the theory of the sacrifice ritual taken from WilliamRobertsonSmith to conclude that the origins of totemism lie in a singular event...
religion through the work of Max Müller, Edward Burnett Tylor, WilliamRobertsonSmith, James George Frazer, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Rudolf Otto...
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the no less prominent British biblical scholar and orientalist WilliamRobertsonSmith, then came in 1885. Between the original publication and the translation...
and Frazer. WilliamRobertsonSmith (1846-1894) in Lectures of the Religion of the Semites (1899) proposed the idea of the totem. For Smith, social groups...
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upon his son" or to "humiliate these famous warriors" and notes WilliamRobertsonSmith's comparison with Exodus 24:5, where young men of the children of...
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