Greene, Richard Gleason

GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY: Presbyterian; b. at Groveville, N. J., Jan. 27, 1825; d. at Princeton, N. J., May 4, 1896. He was educated at Lafayette College (A.B.,1840) and Princeton Theological Seminary (1846). He was instructor in Hebrew at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1846 to 1849 and was also stated supply at the Second Presbyterian Church there in 1847. From 1849 to 1851 he was pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and from the latter year until his death was a professor in Princeton Theological

Seminary, first of Biblical and Oriental literature (1851-59) and later of Oriental and Old Testament literature (1859-96). He was chairman 'of the American Old Testament Company of the AngloAmerican Bible Revision Committee, and in 1868 declined the proffered presidency of Princeton College. In Biblical criticism he was one of the leading representatives of the conservative school, and firmly impressed his individuality on the seminary. Besides editing the Song of Solomon for the American edition of the Biblical commentary of J. P. Lange (New York, 1870), he wrote A Grammar of the Hebrew Language (New York, 1861); A Hebrew Chrestomathy (1863); The Pentateuch Vindicated from the Aspersions of Bishop Colenso (1863); The Argument of the Book of Job Unfolded (1874); Moses and the Prophets (1883); The Hebrew Feasts in their Relation to Recent Critical Hypotheses concerning the Pentateuch (1885); Prophets and Prophecy (Princeton, 1888); The Old Testament Canon (1889); Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch (New York, 1895); The Unity of the Book of Genesis (1895); and the posthumous General Introduction to the Old Testament (2 vols., 1898-99).

GREENE, RICHARD GLEASON: Congregationalist; b. at East Haddam, Conn., June 29, 1829. He was educated at Yale College, but left before graduation on account of the death of his father. He received his theological training at Andover Theological Seminary (1853), becoming immediately acting pastor of the First Congregational Church, Springfield, O., after which he held successive pastorates at the Eastern Congregational Church, New York City (1854-56), Plymouth Congregational Church, Adrian, Mich. (1856-57), East Cambridge, Mass. (1858-60), First Congregational Church, Brighton, Mass. (1860-62), Bedford Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. (1862-65), Orange Valley Congregational Church, Orange, N..J. (1865-66), North Church, Springfield, Mass. (1866-74), and Trinity Church, East Orange, N. J. (1875-89). He was editor-in-chief of the Library of Universal Knowledge (15 vols., New York, 1882); the first edition of the International Encyclopa;dia (16 vols.,1887); and the Columbian Cyclopedia (32 vols., 1890). In theology he is an Evangelical, placing more stress on the fellowship of faith in Christ than on any similarity either of doctrinal belief or of church government. In addition to numerous reviews he has written Glimpses of the Coming (New York, 1877).