jamieson fausset brown wikipedia

Who were Andrew Fausset and David Brown?

Andrew Fausset (1821–1910) was rector of St Cuthbert’s Church in York. David Brown (1803–1897) was a Free Church of Scotland minister at St James, Glasgow, and professor of theology at Free Church College of the University of Aberdeen .

Who wrote the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary?

He was a co-author of the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary, with Robert Jamieson and David Brown. This work appeared in six volumes, from 1864 to 1870, and then had numerous full or abridged editions.

What did Fausset study in college?

Gaining prizes and awards there, he graduated B.A. in 1843 (senior moderator in classics), and won the vice-chancellor's Latin verse prize both that year and in 1844. He obtained the divinity testimonium (second class) in 1845, and graduated M.A. in 1846, proceeding B.D. and D.D. in 1886. On graduating, Fausset became an academic coach at Trinity.

Life

Born on 13 October 1821 at Silverhill, County Fermanagh, he was the son of the Rev. William Fausset by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Fausset, provost of Sligo; the family was of French origin. Educated first at Dungannon Royal School, he obtained a scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin in 1838.

Works

Fausset wrote much on biblical prophecy. He was a co-author of the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary, with Robert Jamieson and David Brown. This work appeared in six volumes, from 1864 to 1870, and then had numerous full or abridged editions.

Family

in 1859, to Elizabeth, daughter of William Knowlson, of York, by whom he had three sons and one daughter;

Jewish commentaries

A visitor to Alexandria at the time when Christ was preaching in Galilee would find there and in its vicinity Jews using the Septuagint as their Bible, and could enter their Great Synagogue. Whoever had not seen it was not supposed to have beheld the glory of Israel.

Patristic commentaries

The history of Christian exegesis may be roughly divided into three periods: the Age of the Fathers, the Age of Catenæ and Scholia (seventh to sixteenth century), and the Age of Modern Commentaries (sixteenth to twentieth century). The earliest known commentary on Christian scriptures was by a Gnostic named Heracleon in the 170s CE.

Medieval commentaries

The medieval writers were content to draw from the rich treasures left them by their predecessors. Their commentaries consisted, for the most part, of passages from the Church Fathers, which they connected together as in a chain, a catena .

Modern Catholic commentaries

The influx of Greek scholars into Italy after the fall of Constantinople, the Christian and anti-Christian Renaissance, the invention of printing, the controversial excitement caused by the rise of Protestantism, and the publication of polyglot Bibles by Cardinal Ximenes and others, gave renewed interest in the study of the Bible among Catholic scholars.

Protestant commentaries

The commentaries of the first Reformers, Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, Zwingli and their followers wrote on Holy Scripture during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

External public domain Bible commentaries

With the rise of the Internet, many Public Domain or otherwise free-use Bible commentaries have become available online. Here is a list of some of the commentaries:

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