Alexander Roberts
Alexander Roberts DD (12 May 1826 – 8 March 1901) was a Scottish biblical scholar.
Life
Born at Marykirk, Kincardineshire, on 12 May 1826, he was the son of Alexander Roberts, a flax-spinner. He was educated at the grammar school and King's College, Aberdeen, where he graduated M.A. in March 1847, being the Simpson Greek prizeman.[1]
Roberts was a presbyterian minister (1852–71) in Scotland and London. In 1864, then a minister at Carlton Hill, London, he was made Doctor of Divinty of Edinburgh University. He was also minister at St. John's Wood, and was a member of the New Testament revision company (1870–84). In 1872, he succeeded John Campbell Shairp in the chair of humanity at the University of St. Andrews; he was made emeritus professor in 1899. He died at St. Andrews, Mitcham Park, Surrey, on 8 March 1901.[1] He was returned to St Andrews for burial and lies in the south-east corner of the churchyard of St Andrews Cathedral.
Family
Roberts married on 2 December 1852 Mary Anne Speid (died 18 January 1911), and had fourteen children, of whom four sons and eight daughters survived him.[1]
Works
Roberts' "Discussions on the Gospels" was published in 1862,[2] one of a series of works in which he maintained that Greek was the habitual speech of Jesus, a conclusion unpopular at the time.[1] He co-operated with Sir James Donaldson as editor and part translator of the English versions of ecclesiastical writers published as the Ante-Nicene Christian Library (1867–72, 24 vols.), the first major edition in English of these Church Fathers.[3] He also translated the Works of Sulpitius Severus (1895) in the Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 Gordon 1912.
- ↑ Roberts, A., Discussions on the Gospels accessed 29 April 2016
- ↑ Roberts, Alexander - Oxford DNB
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gordon, Alexander (1912). "Roberts, Alexander". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. - Hawke, Joanna. "Roberts, Alexander (1826–1901)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35767. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
External links
- Works by or about Alexander Roberts at Internet Archive
- Works by Alexander Roberts at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
