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GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 536 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREEN, See also:WILLIAM See also:HENRY (.1825–1900) , See also:American See also:Hebrew See also:scholar, was See also:born in Groveville, near See also:Bordentown, New See also:Jersey, on the 27th of See also:January 1825. He was descended in the See also:sixth See also:generation from See also:Jonathan See also:Dickinson, first See also:president of the See also:College of New Jersey (now See also:Princeton University), and his ancestors had been closely connected with the Presbyterian See also:church. He graduated in 184o from See also:Lafayette College, where he was See also:tutor in See also:mathematics (184o–1842) and .See also:adjunct See also:professor (1843–1844). In 1846 he graduated from Princeton Theological See also:Seminary, and was instructor in Hebrew there in 1846–1849. He was ordained in 1848 and was pastor of the Central Presbyterian church of See also:Philadelphia in 1849–1851. From See also:August 1851 until his See also:death, in Princeton, New Jersey, on the loth of See also:February 1900, he was professor of Biblical and See also:Oriental Literature in Princeton Theological Seminary. From 1859 the See also:title of his See also:chair was Oriental and Old Testament Literature. In 1868 he refused the See also:presidency of Princeton College; as See also:senior professor he was See also:long acting See also:head of the Theological Seminary. He was a See also:great Hebrew teacher: his See also:Grammar of the Hebrew See also:Language (1861, revised 1888) was a distinct improvement in method on Gesenius, Roediger, See also:Ewald and Nordheimer. All his knowledge of Semitic See also:languages he used in a " conservative Higher See also:Criticism," which is maintained in the following See also:works: The See also:Pentateuch Vindicated from the Aspersions of See also:Bishop See also:Colenso (1863), See also:Moses and the Prophets (1883), The Hebrew Feasts in their Relation to See also:Recent See also:Critical Hypotheses Concerning the Pentateuch (1885),T he Unity of the See also:Book of See also:Genesis (1895), The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch (1895), and A See also:General Introduction to the Old Testament, vol. i. See also:Canon (1898), vol. ii. See also:Text (1899).

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leader of the orthodox wing of the Presbyterian church in See also:America, and was See also:moderator of the General See also:Assembly of 1891. Green was chair-See also:man of the Old Testament See also:committee of the Anglo-American See also:Bible revision committee. See the articles by See also:John D. See also:Davis in The Biblical See also:World, new See also:series, vol. xv., pp. 406-413 (See also:Chicago, 1900), and The Presbyterian and Reformed See also:Review, vol. xi. pp. 377-396 (Philadelphia, 1900).

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