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    William Robertson Smith FRSE (8 November 1846 – 31 March 1894) was a Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity, and minister...
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  • asserted for the first time by the bible scholar William Robertson Smith. The scholar Meletinsky notes that Smith introduced the concept "dogmatically." In his...
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  • dictionaries William Robertson Smith (1846–1894), Scottish philologist, physicist, archaeologist and Biblical critic William Benjamin Smith (1850–1934)...
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    for a Phoenician harp, and was suggested by the encyclopedist William Robertson Smith in an 1870 letter to Peter Guthrie Tait. The nabla symbol is available...
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    Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933) was a British Army officer who served...
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    conscience of those who came to believe it did not fully do so (e.g. William Robertson Smith). Some Presbyterian churches, such as the Free Church of Scotland...
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    Abuse and Loss" (PDF). Baylor University. Retrieved 11 July 2015. William Robertson Smith (1889). Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series....
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  • Supreme Court William Robert Smith (1863–1924), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas (1903–1916) William Robertson Smith (1846–1894),...
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  • retained complete independence from her husband, according to William Robertson Smith. The term was suggested by John Ferguson McLennan, who noted that...
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  • (1879), believed that it was probably the ruins of el-Beida, but William Robertson Smith (1899) expressed doubt about this identification. According to...
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    river Orontes as a youth swimming under her feet. According to William Robertson Smith the Tyche of Antioch was originally a young virgin sacrificed at...
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  • William Alexander "Rip" Robertson Jr. (August 3, 1920 – December 1, 1970) was a United States Marine Corps officer—a combat veteran of the World War II...
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  • scholarly of all Britannicas. After 1880, Baynes was assisted by William Robertson Smith. No biographies of living persons were included. James Clerk Maxwell...
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    presented for and against the transcription of the form Jehovah. William Robertson Smith summarizes these discourses, concluding that "whatever, therefore...
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    Edmonson), "William Robertson Smith and the Anthropological Study of Myth," at Tulane University in April 1993. William Robertson Smith remained part...
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    William Robertson (19 September 1721 – 11 June 1793) was a Scottish historian, cleric, and educator who served as Principal of the University of Edinburgh...
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    groupings) with the theory of the sacrifice ritual taken from William Robertson Smith to conclude that the origins of totemism lie in a singular event...
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    Eben William Robertson (17 September 1815 – 3 June 1874) was a British historian. Robertson was born near the Leicestershire- Derbyshire border at Netherseale...
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  • Australia. Robertson, Martin and Smith comprised a partnership of William B. Robertson, an English born engineer; John Martin; and William Smith. The company...
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    Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades. Robertson portrayed...
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  • upon his son" or to "humiliate these famous warriors" and notes William Robertson Smith's comparison with Exodus 24:5, where young men of the children of...
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    religion through the work of Max Müller, Edward Burnett Tylor, William Robertson Smith, James George Frazer, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Rudolf Otto...
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  • the no less prominent British biblical scholar and orientalist William Robertson Smith, then came in 1885. Between the original publication and the translation...
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    co-editor. In 1881, Briggs published an article in defense of William Robertson Smith which led to a series of responses and counter-responses between...
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  • and Frazer. William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) in Lectures of the Religion of the Semites (1899) proposed the idea of the totem. For Smith, social groups...
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    criticism' of the Bible was a central approach taught by such as William Robertson Smith and he was dismissed from his chair by the Assembly in 1881. Attempts...
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  • (Online ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 2024-11-21. "Smith, William Robertson". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford...
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  • historical-grammatical method; while the traditional evangelical scholar, William Robertson Smith, adhered to the historical-critical method. Amid these controversies...
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    and Criticism in Victorian Britain: Profiles of F.D. Maurice and William Robertson Smith. Schmidt, Richard H. (2002). Glorious Companions: Five Centuries...
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  • hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory Mike Smith (1955–2022) Australian, Central Australia William Robertson Smith (1846–1894) Scottish; Orientalist, Biblical...
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