William Emery Barnes

William Emery Barnes FRSE (1859–1939) was an English academic,^[1] most notably Hulsean Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1901 until 1934.^[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Barnes was born on 26 May 1859 in Islington. He was educated at Islington Proprietary School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Career[edit]

He was ordained in 1884 and served his title at St John's Church, Waterloo. He was a lecturer in Hebrew at Clare College, Cambridge, from 1885 to 1894; and in divinity at Peterhouse, Cambridge, from 1889 to 1901. He was Dean of Peterhouse from 1920 to 1921; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Peterborough from 1920 to 1927; and Canon Theologian of Leicester from 1932 until his death^[3] on 17 August 1939 in Exeter.

Publications[edit]

• Canonical and Uncanonical Gospels, 1893
• The Peshitta Text of Chronicles, 1897
• The Psalms in the Peshitta Version, 1904
• Lex in Corde (studies in the Psalter), 1910
• Early Christians at Prayer, 1925
• The Forgivenesses of Jesus Christ, 1936

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