"... the crown (for having most furthered undestanding in the nineteenth century) belongs to Crawford H. Toy's voluminous interpretation of the book of Proverbs"--Rudolf Smend, from " Wisdom in Ancient Israel", Cambridge, 1997....
About
the Author
Crawford H. Toy ---
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Toy, Crawford Howell,1836–1919, American biblical
scholar, b. Norfolk, Va., M.A. Univ. of Virginia, 1856. He also studied
(1859–60) at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Greenville, S.C., served
as a chaplain in the Confederate army, and continued (1866–68) his studies at
Berlin. He resigned the professorship he held (1869–79) at the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary because of theological controversy. From 1880 until his
retirement (1909) he was Hancock professor of Hebrew and other Oriental
languages at Harvard.
A member (1901–6) of the editorial board of
The Jewish Encyclopedia and a contributor to learned journals, he wrote
Judaism and Christianity (1890), A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on
the Book of Proverbs (1899), and Introduction to the History of Religions
(1913).
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