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HACKETT, HORATIO BALCH (1808-1875)

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HACKETT, HORATIO BALCH (1808-1875) , See also:American biblical See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Salisbury, See also:Massachusetts, on the 27th of See also:December 18o8. He was educated at See also:Phillips-See also:Andover See also:Academy, at See also:Amherst See also:College, where he graduated as valedictorian in 183o, and at Andover Theological See also:Seminary, where he graduated in 1834. He was See also:adjunct See also:professor of Latin and See also:Greek See also:Languages and Literature at See also:Brown University in 1835-1838 and professor of See also:Hebrew Literature there in 1838-1839, was ordained to the Baptist See also:ministry in 1839—he had become a Baptist at Andover as the result of preparing a See also:paper on See also:baptism in the New Testament and the Fathers—and in 1839-1848 he was professor of Biblical literature and See also:interpretation in See also:Newton Theological Institution where his most important See also:work was the introduction of the See also:modern See also:German methods of Biblical See also:criticism, which he had learned from See also:Moses See also:Stuart at Andover and with which he made himself more See also:familiar in See also:Germany (especially under See also:Tholuck at See also:Halle) in 1841. He travelled in See also:Egypt and See also:Palestine in 1852, and in 1858—1859 in See also:Greece, becoming proficient in modern Greek. From 187o until his See also:death in See also:Rochester, New See also:York, on the 2nd of See also:November 1875, he was professor of Biblical literature and New Testament exegesis in the Rochester Theo-logical Seminary. He was a See also:great teacher but a greater See also:critical and exegetical scholar. He wrote See also:Christian Memorials of the See also:War (1864) ; an See also:English version of See also:Winer's See also:Grammar of the See also:Chaldee See also:Language (1844) ; Exercises in Hebrew Grammar (1847); and various articles on the Semitic language and literature in See also:periodicals; but his best-known work was in See also:general commentary on the See also:Bible and See also:translation, and in the See also:special See also:text study of the New Testament. Under these two headings fall: Illustrations of Scripture; suggested by a Tour through the See also:Holy See also:Land (1855); the American revision, with See also:Ezra See also:Abbot, of See also:Smith's See also:Dictionary of the Bible, to the See also:British edition of which he had contributed about See also:thirty articles; Commentary on the See also:Original Text of the Acts of the Apostles (1852; 2nd edition, 1858), for many years the best English commentary; Notes on the Greek Text of the See also:Epistle of See also:Paul to See also:Philemon, and a Revised Version of Philemon, both published in 186o; the English versions, in See also:Schaff's edition of See also:Lange's Commentaries, of See also:Van See also:Oosterzee's Philemon and Braune's See also:Philippians; and for the American Bible See also:Union Version of the Bible he translated the books of See also:Ruth and See also:Judges, and aided T. J. See also:Conant in editorial revision; and he was one of the American translators for the English Bible revision. See Memorials of Horatio Balch Hackett (Rochester, N.Y., 1876), edited by G. H.

Whittemore. H. See also:

HADAD Frieden (1859), and the comedies Der geheime See also:Agent (185o) and Magnetische Kuren (1851) may be specially mentioned. His auto-See also:biography appeared in 1878 under the See also:title, Der See also:Roman meines Lebens (2 vols.). See H. See also:Morning, Erinnerungen an F. W. See also:Hacklander (1878).

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