R. Laird Harris
Robert Laird Harris | |
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Born | Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania |
March 10, 1911
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Presbyterian minister, church leader, and Old Testament scholar |
Spouse(s) | Elizabeth K. Nelson, then Anne P. Krauss |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Delaware, Westminster Theological Seminary, University of Pennsylvania |
Alma mater | Dropsie College(PhD) |
Thesis year | 1947 |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Faith Theological Seminary Covenant Theological Seminary Knox Theological Seminary |
Robert Laird Harris (March 10, 1911 – April 25, 2008) was a Presbyterian minister, church leader, and Old Testament scholar.
Biography
Harris was born near Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania. He earned a B.S. from the University of Delaware (1931), a Th.B. (1935) and a Th.M. (1937) from Westminster Theological Seminary, an A.M. from University of Pennsylvania (1941), and a Ph.D. from Dropsie College (1947).
He was licensed as a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 1935, joined the newly formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church (then called Presbyterian Church of America) in 1936, then teamed up with those forming the Bible Presbyterian Church in 1937, and was in 1956 moderator of a new offshoot denomination, the Bible Presbyterian Synod (BPS). He was involved on the committee that brought about the merger of the BPS with another denomination to become the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod (RPCES) in 1965, and then the RPCES, along with its education institutions Covenant College and Covenant Theological Seminary, became part of the Presbyterian Church in America in 1982, at which time Harris was elected moderator of the 10th General Assembly of that body.
He was part-time instructor in Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania (1946–1947) and then taught for twenty years at Faith Theological Seminary (1937–1956). He resigned from that institution because of his belief in the propriety of denomination-controlled institutions, and he then helped found the Covenant Theological Seminary, which was a denominational institution and where he was chairman of the Old Testament department until he retired in 1981. He taught as an adjunct professor of Old Testament at Knox Theological Seminary at its founding in 1989.
Harris's first wife, Elizabeth K. Nelson, was born on April 30, 1910 and died in 1980. He then married Anne P. Krauss and lived in Quarryville, Pennsylvania.
Publications
Harris published several books including Introductory Hebrew Grammar, Inspiration and Canonicity of the Bible, Your Bible, and Man—God's Eternal Creation
He also served as editor of The Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament and was a contributing editor to the Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible. He was contributed articles to the Wycliffe Bible Commentary and the Expositor's Bible, and he served as chairman of the Committee on Bible Translation for the New International Version.
Works
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References
- R. Laird Harris Papers from the PCA Historical Center
Social Security record of Elizabeth K.(Nelson) Harris for birthdate.
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- 1911 births
- 2008 deaths
- University of Delaware alumni
- Westminster Theological Seminary alumni
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Dropsie College alumni
- American Calvinist and Reformed theologians
- Orthodox Presbyterian Church ministers
- Westminster Theological Seminary faculty
- American biblical scholars
- Old Testament scholars
- People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) teaching elders
- Presbyterian Church in America ministers