Morton smith biography
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Smith, Morton
SMITH, MORTON . Robert Morton Smith was born in Philadelphia on May 28, 1915, the son of the physician Rupert Henry Smith and his wife Mary (Funk). He received a B.A. from Harvard in 1936, with a major in English. Thereafter he continued at Harvard Divinity School (S.T.B. 1940), where he studied the New Testament (NT) under Henry Cadbury, Judaism under Harry A. Wolfson, and Greco-Roman religions under Arthur D. Nock. At Wolfson's urging he learned rabbinic Hebrew as background to NT studies. He was awarded a travel fellowship for study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he was stranded by the outbreak of World War II, but he used the time to complete a doctoral dissertation, written in Hebrew, submitted in 1945, accepted in 1948, and published in English translation as Tannaitic Parallels to the Gospels (1951). From 1948 to 1950 he returned to Harvard Divinity School, where he eventually earned a Th.D. in 1957 with a controversial thesis, eventually published in 1971 as Palestinian Parties and Politics That Shaped the Old Testament. His first teaching appointments were as instructor and then assistant professor in biblical literature at Brown University (1950–1955), followed by a year as visiting professor in the history of religions at D
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Morton H. Smith
American Presbyterian minister
Not to be confused with Morton Smith.
Morton Howison Smith (December 11, 1923 – November 12, 2017)[1] was an American Presbyterian minister. He was the first Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in America, serving from 1973 to 1988, and also served as its Moderator in 2000.[2]
Smith had degrees from the University of Michigan, Columbia Theological Seminary and the Free University of Amsterdam.[2]
He was a founder of both Reformed Theological Seminary and Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.[3] He taught at Belhaven College and Reformed Theological Seminary before becoming Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America. Smith continued to serve as Professor of Systematic and Biblical Theology at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in his retirement.[2]
In 2004, a Festschrift was published in his honor. Confessing our Hope: Essays Celebrating the Life and Ministry of Morton H. Smith included contributions from J. Ligon Duncan III and George W. Knight III.
Racial views
[edit]Smith wrote in favor of the equal treatment of all races, and was neutral on the matter of racial integration or segregation, while he oppose
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Dr. Morton Howison Smith spasm peacefully Sun morning, Nov. 12.
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