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CURETON, WILLIAM (1808-1864)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 638 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CURETON, See also:WILLIAM (1808-1864) , See also:English Orientalist, was See also:born at See also:Westbury, in See also:Shropshire. After being educated at the See also:free See also:grammar school of See also:Newport, and at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, he took orders in 1832, became See also:chaplain of Christ Church, sub-librarian of the Bodleian, and, in 1839, assistant keeper of See also:MSS. in the See also:British Museum. He was afterwards appointed select preacher to the university of Oxford, chaplain in See also:ordinary to the See also:queen, See also:rector of St See also:Margaret's, See also:Westminster, and See also:canon of Westminster. He was elected a See also:fellow of the Royal Society and a trustee of the British Museum, and was also honoured by several See also:continental See also:societies. He died on the 17th of See also:June 1864. Cureton's most remarkable See also:work was the edition with notes and an English See also:translation of the Epistles of See also:Ignatius to See also:Polycarp, the See also:Ephesians and the See also:Romans, from a See also:Syriac MS. that had been found in the monastery-of St See also:Mary Deipara, in the See also:desert of Nitria, near See also:Cairo. He held that the MS. he used gave the truest See also:text, that all other texts were inaccurate, and that the epistles contained in the MS. were the only genuine epistles of Ignatius that we possess-a view which received the support of F. C. See also:Baur, See also:Bunsen, and many others, but which was opposed by See also:Charles See also:Wordsworth and by several See also:German scholars, and is now generally abandoned (see IGNATIUS). Cureton supported his view by his Vindiciae Ignatianae and his Corpus Ignatianuni,—a See also:Complete Collection of the Ignatian Epistles, genuine, interpolated and See also:spurious. He also edited a partial Syriac text of the Festal Letters of St See also:Athanasius, which was translated into English by See also:Henry See also:Burgess (1854), and published in the Library of Fathers of the See also:Holy See also:Catholic Church; Remains of a very See also:Ancient Recension of the Four Gospels in Syriac, hitherto unknown in See also:Europe; Spicilegium Syriacum, containing Remains of Bardesan, Meliton, See also:Ambrose, See also:Mara See also:Bar See also:Serapion; The third See also:Part of the Ecclesiastical See also:History of See also:John, See also:Bishop of See also:Ephesus, which was translated by See also:Payne See also:Smith; Fragments of the Iliad of See also:Homer from a Syriac See also:Palimpsest; an Arabic work known as the See also:Thirty-first See also:Chapter of the See also:Book entitled The See also:Lamp that guides to Salvation, written by a See also:Christian of Tekrit; The Book of Religious and Philosophical Sects, by Muhammed al Sharastani; a Commentary on the Book of See also:Lamentations, by See also:Rabbi Tanchum; and the See also:Pillar of the Creed of the See also:Sunnites. Cureton also published several sermons, among which was one entitled The See also:Doctrine of the Trinity not Speculative but See also:Practical.

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death Dr W. See also:Wright edited with a See also:preface the Ancient Syriac Documents relative to the earliest See also:Establishment of See also:Christianity in See also:Edessa and the neighbouring Countries, from the See also:Year of our See also:Lord's See also:Ascension to the beginning of the See also:Fourth See also:Century; discovered, edited and annotated by the See also:late W. Cureton.

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