Norman Snaith

Norman Henry Snaith (1898–1982) was a British Old Testament scholar and a Professor at Wesley College, Leeds.

Norman Snaith
Born	Norman Henry Snaith
Died	1982 (aged 83–84)
Education	Manchester Grammar School University of Cambridge
Occupation	Scholar

Education and early life

Snaith was the son of a Primitive Methodist minister. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, reading mathematics before studying Semitic languages under George Buchanan Gray at Mansfield College.

Career

Snaith became a Primitive Methodist minister, taking up pastoral work until appointed Professor of Old Testament at Wesley College in 1936. He became Principal of Wesley College in 1954, and retired in 1961.[1] In 1957, Snaith was president of the Society for Old Testament Study.[1]

Publications by Snaith

• Studies in the Psalter, 1934
• The distinctive ideas of the Old Testament, 1944
• The Jewish New Year festival, 1948
• The Jews from Cyrus to Herod, 1949
• Hymns of the Temple, 1951
• Mercy and sacrifice; a study of the book of Hosea, 1953
• Notes on the Hebrew Text of I Kings XVII–XIX and XXI–XXII, 1954
• Amos, Hosea and Micah (Epworth Preacher's Commentaries), 1956
• (ed.) Hebrew Old Testament, 1958
• Leviticus and Numbers (The Century Bible, New Edition), 1967
• The Book of Job; its origin and purpose, 1968
• 'Prolegomenon', in Christian D. Ginsburg (ed. and tr.) Introduction to the Rabbinic Bible by Jacob ben Hayyim ibn Adonijah

References

1. Anderson, G. W. (1983). "Norman Henry Snaith, 1898–1982". Journal of Semitic Studies (2): 355. doi:10.1093/jss/XXVIII.2.355.