American biblical scholar
Moses Stuart
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Born
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1780-03-26
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March 26, 1780
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Died
| January 4, 1852
(1852-01-04)
(aged 71)
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Education
| Yale University
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Occupation
| Biblical scholar
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Moses B. Stuart
(March 26, 1780 ? January 4, 1852) was an American biblical scholar.
Life and career
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Moses Stuart was born in
Wilton, Connecticut
on March 26, 1780.
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He was brought up on a farm, then attended
Yale University
graduating with highest honours in 1799; in 1802 he was admitted to the Connecticut bar and was appointed as a tutor at Yale, where he remained for two years. In 1806 Stuart became the pastor of the Centre (
Congregational
) Church of
New Haven
. He was later appointed professor of sacred literature in the
Andover Theological Seminary
in 1810.
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He succeeded
Eliphalet Pearson
(1752?1826), the first preceptor of the
Phillips (Andover) Academy
and in 1786?1806 was appointed professor of
Hebrew
and Oriental languages at
Harvard
. At this time he knew hardly more than elementary Hebrew and not much more
Greek
; in 1801?12 he prepared for the use of his students a Hebrew
grammar
which they copied day by day from his manuscript; in 1813 he printed his
Grammar
, which appeared in an enlarged form, with a copious
syntax
and
praxis
, in 1821, and was republished in England by
Dr Pusey
in 1831. Stuart was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in 1815
[2]
and the
American Philosophical Society
[3]
in 1824.
He gradually made the acquaintance of German works in
hermeneutics
, first
Johann Friedrich Schleusner
, Seiler and
Gesenius
, and taught himself
German
, arousing much suspicion and distrust among his colleagues by his unusual studies. However, recognition soon followed, partly as a result of his
Letter to Dr Channing on the Subject of Religious Liberty
(1830), but more largely through the growing favour shown to German
philology
and critical methods.
In 1842 Stuart published a second edition of his work
Hints on the Interpretation of Prophecy
. The historical setting of this work he alluded to in his Preface, writing, "It is time for the churches, in reference to the matters now before us, to seek some refuge from the tumultuous ocean on which they have of late been tossed." (p. 5) This setting he more explicitly addressed in his Appendix, where he replied to the book
George Duffield
, D.D., of Detroit, published in 1842,
Dissertations on the Prophecies Relative to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ
. Stuart as well mentioned Duffield's view of
William Miller
in regard to the time of the Second Coming (p. 172).
Stuart's 1850 book
Conscience and the Constitution
took the position that slavery was an institution allowed by the Bible, but that, as it was actually practiced in the United States, slavery was morally wrong. Therefore there should be a voluntary emancipation of slaves by the Southern slave owners. However, Parker Pillsbury reported in his 1847 "Forlorn Hope of Slavery" that Stuart of Andover Theological Seminary wrote "to President Fisk of another Theological Seminary, that 'slavery may exist, without violating the Christian faith or the Church.'"
Stuart has been called the father of
exegetical studies
in America. He contributed largely by his teaching to the renewal of foreign missionary zeal?of his 1,500 students more than 100 became foreign missionaries, among them such skilled translators as
Adoniram Judson
,
Elias Riggs
and
William G Schauffler
.
In 1848 Stuart resigned his chair at Andover. He died in
Andover
on January 4, 1852.
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Major works
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- Winer's Greek Grammar of the New Testament
(1825), with Edward Robinson
- Critical History and Defence of the Old Testament Canon
- Hug
's Introduction to the New Testament
(1836), translation from the German
- Commentary on the
Epistle to the Hebrews
(1827?1828)
- Commentary on the
Epistle to the Romans
(1832)
- Hints on the Interpretation of Prophecy
Second Edition
(1842); this Andover printing lacks the Appendix containing his reply to Duffield. The 1851 New York printing of the same edition does contain Stuart's Appendix.
- Commentary on the
Apocalypse
(1845)
- Miscellanies
(1846)
- Gesenius's
Hebrew Grammar
(1846), a version which involved Stuart in a long controversy with
Thomas Conant
, the earlier, and possibly more scholarly, translator of Gesenius
- Commentary on the Book of Daniel
(1850)
- Commentary on
Ecclesiastes
(1851)
- Commentary on the
Book of Proverbs
(1852)
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Chisholm, Hugh
, ed. (1911). "
Stuart, Moses
".
Encyclopædia Britannica
. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1048.
Further reading
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