James Hastings
Presbyterian clergyman and encyclopaedist
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Summary
James Hastings (1852–1922) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and biblical scholar. He was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. He studied the classics at the University of Aberdeen, attended the Free Church Divinity College in Aberdeen, and was ordained a Free Church minister in 1884. He was founder and editor of the Expository Times.
Huntly, Scotland
Biography
Hastings was born in Scotland, studied the classics at the University of Aberdeen, attended the Free Church Divinity College in Aberdeen, and was ordained a Free Church minister in 1884. He was the editor of such massive reference works as the Dictionary of the Bible (4 vols. plus supplementary vols.: 1898-1904) and the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (12 vols. plus index vol.: 1908-1921). Hastings was also founder and editor(1889 of the Expository Times.
Much of this editorial work was accomplished while he was a church pastor (retired 1911). His labors grew out of a twofold conviction: the importance of scholarship and its compatibility with essential Christian faith.
Works by James Hastings
James Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible Dealing with Language, Literature, and Contents is a dictionary divided into four volumes. Copyrighted in 1898, each volume contains nearly 1,000 pages of information about the Old and New Testaments. Hastings, in his Preface to volume 1, writes, "Articles have been written on the names of all Persons and Places, on Antiquities and Archeology of the Bible, and its Ethnology, Geology, and Natural History, On Biblical Theology and Ethic. and even the obsolete or archaic words occurring in the English Versions." James Hastings is also the editor of Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels
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