Norman Snaith

For Henry James Snaith, see Henry Snaith.
Norman Snaith
Born Norman Henry Snaith
Died 1982 (aged 8384)
Education
Occupation Scholar

Norman Henry Snaith (1898–1982) was a British Old Testament scholar and a Professor at Wesley College, Leeds.

Education and early life

Snaith was the son of a Primitive Methodist minister. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, reading mathematics before studying Semitic languages under George Buchanan Gray at Mansfield College.

Career

Snaith became a Primitive Methodist minister, taking up pastoral work until appointed Professor at Wesley College in 1936. He became Principal of Wesley College in 1954, and retired in 1961.[1]

Publications by Snaith

References

  1. Anderson, G. W. (1983). "Norman Henry Snaith, 1898–1982". Journal of Semitic Studies (2): 355. doi:10.1093/jss/XXVIII.2.355.
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