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Timeline

Lifetime: 1867 - 1925 Passed: ≈ 99 years ago

Title

Old Testament Scholar

Country/Nationality

United States
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Charles Foster Kent

Charles Foster Kent was an American Old Testament scholar.

He was born at Palmyra, New York, and educated at Yale (A.B., 1889; Ph.D., 1891). He studied at the University of Berlin (1891–92).

He was an instructor at the University of Chicago 1893-95 and then professor of Biblical literature at Brown. After 1901, he was Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature at Yale.

Kent was the founding president of the American Academy of Religion from 1910 to 1925.

Books by Charles Foster Kent

The Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Israel's History Cover image

The Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Israel's History

History Non-Fiction
Antiquity Judah

"The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History" from Charles Foster Kent. American Old Testament scholar (1867-1925).