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CHEYNE, THOMAS KELLY (1841— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 116 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHEYNE, See also:THOMAS See also:KELLY (1841— ) , See also:English divine and Biblical critic, was See also:born in See also:London, and educated at See also:Merchant Taylors' School and See also:Oxford. Subsequently he studied See also:German theological methods at See also:Gottingen. He was ordained in 1864, and held a fellowship at Balliol See also:College, Oxford, 1868-1882. During the earlier See also:part of this See also:period he stood alone in the university as a teacher of the See also:main conclusions of See also:modern Old Testament See also:criticism. In 1881 he was presented to the rectory of Tendring, in See also:Essex, and in 1884 he was made a member of the Old Testament revision See also:company. He resigned the living of Tendring in 1885 on his See also:appointment to the See also:Oriel professorship, which carried with it a canonry at See also:Rochester. In 1889 he delivered the See also:Bampton lectures at Oxford. In 1908 he resigned his See also:professor-See also:ship. He consistently urged in his writings the See also:necessity of a broad and comprehensive study of the Scriptures in the See also:light of See also:literary, See also:historical and scientific considerations. His publications include commentaries on the Prophets and Hagiographa, and lectures and addresses on theological subjects. He was a See also:joint editor of the See also:Encyclopaedia Biblica (London, 1899-1903), a See also:work embodying the more advanced conclusions of English biblical criticism. In the introduction to his Origin of the Psalter (London, '891) he gave an See also:account of his development as a See also:critical See also:scholar.

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