Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, FBA (14 September 1856 – 9 January 1924) was a British orientalist, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Professor of Theology at the University of Oxford.
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare | |
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| Born | 14 September 1856 Coulsdon, Surrey |
| Died | 9 January 1924 (aged 67) |
| Occupation(s) | Orientalist, theologian, writer |
Biography
Conybeare was born in Coulsdon, Surrey, the third son of a barrister, John Charles Conybeare, and grandson of the geologist William Daniel Conybeare.[1] He took an interest in the Order of Corporate Reunion, an Old Catholic organization, becoming a Bishop in it in 1894. Also in the 1890s he wrote a book on the Dreyfus case, as a Dreyfusard, and translated the Testament of Solomon and other early Christian texts. As well, he did influential work on Barlaam and Josaphat. He was an authority on the Armenian Church.[2]
From 1904 to 1915 he was a member of the Rationalist Press Association, founded in 1899.
One of his best-known works is Myth, Magic, and Morals from 1909, later reissued under the title The Origins of Christianity. This has been read both as a strong criticism of the Jesus myth theory, making Conybeare a supporter of the historical Jesus; but also as an attack on aspects of orthodox Christianity itself. He returned later in 1914 to make a direct assault on leading proponents of the time of the Jesus-myth theory.
He died in 1924 aged 68 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.[3]
His wife Mary Emily was a translator of Wilhelm Scherer.
See also
Works
Books
- Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion by Hermann Lotze (1892) translator
- The Armenian Apology and Acts of Apollonius, and Other Monuments of Early Christianity (1896)
- The Demonology of the New Testament. I (1896)
- About the Contemplative Life; or the Fourth Book of the Treatise Concerning Virtues, by Philo Judaeus (1895) editor
- The Key of Truth, a Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia (1898)
- The Story of Ahikar from the Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Greek and Slavonic Versions (1898) with J. Rendel Harris and Agnes Smith Lewis
- The Dreyfus Case (1899)
- Rituale Armenorum Being the Administration of the Sacraments & the Breviary Rites of the Armenian Church Together with the Greek Rites of Baptism & Epiphany edited from the oldest manuscripts (1905) with Arthur John Maclean
- Selections from the Septuagint According to the Text of Swete (1905) with St. George Stock, later as A Grammar of Septuagint Greek online
- The Armenian version of Revelation, Apocalypse of John the Divine (1907) editor
- Myth, Magic, and Morals: A Study of Christian Origins (1909)
- History of New Testament Criticism (1910)
- The Ring of Pope Xystus, Together with the Prologue of Rufinus (1910)
- The Life of Apollonius of Tyana: The Epistles of Apollonius and the Treatise of Eusebius. Philostratus (1912) translator, Loeb Classical Library, two volumes
- A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Museum (1913)
- The Historical Christ; or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. Smith (1914)
- Russian Dissenters (1921)
- The Armenian Church: Heritage and Identity. (St. Vartan Press: New York, 2001) edited by the Rev. Nerses Vrej Nersessian
Articles
- "The Testament of Solomon" (translation), Jewish Quarterly Review (October 1898)
- "The History of Christmas", The American Journal of Theology 3 (1899), 1–22
- "Antiochus Strategos, The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 AD Archived 2009-09-25 at the Wayback Machine" (translation), English Historical Review 25 (1910), 502–517
- "The Philosophical Aspects of the Doctrine of Divine Incarnation" Jewish Quarterly Review (July 1895)
- "The Demonology of the New Testament. I" Jewish Quarterly Review July 1896
- "Christian Demonology. II" Jewish Quarterly Review October 1896
- "Christian Demonology. III" Jewish Quarterly Review April 1897
- The Eusebian Form of the Text of Matthew 28:19 Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (a journal) 2 (1901): 275–88
- "The Survival of Animal Sacrifices inside the Christian Church" The American Journal of Theology January 1903
- "The History of the Greek Church" The American Journal of Theology July 1903
References
- D. S. Margoliouth, revised by Roger T. Stearn (2015). "Conybeare, Frederick Cornwallis (1856–1924)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Bibliothèque nationale de France {BnF Data}. "Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare (1856-1924)".
- "Residents of Brompton Cemetery". Brompton Cemetery. Archived from the original on 14 July 2007. Retrieved 19 July 2008.
External links
Quotations related to Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare at Wikiquote- Works by or about Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare at Internet Archive
- Works by Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
