Aramaic Peshitta
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Murdock Translation - Author
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| MURDOCK, JAMES (1776-1856). An American scholar, born
at Westbrook, Conn., and educated at Yale, class of 1797. He taught school
in New Haven and at Oneida Academy, now Hamilton College, studied for the
ministry, was licensed in 1801, preached for 13 years in the Congregational
church of Princeton, Mass., and was professor of ancient languages in the
University of Vermont from 1815 until 1819, when he went to Andover
Theological Seminary. There he taught sacred rhetoric and Church history
until l829, and then he removed to New Haven, where he devoted his last
years to private study. He published versions of Munscher's Elements of
Dogmatic History (1830), of Mosheim's Institutes of Ecclesiastical History
(1832), and of Mosheim's Affairs of the Christians before the Time of
Constantine the Great (1852); a Literal Translation of the Whole New
Testament from the Ancient Syriac Version (1851); Sketches of Modern
Philosophy (1842). |