Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Jr.
Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Jr., A.B., D.D. (1855–1937) was an American theologian.
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Biography
Jacobus was born at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, the son of pastor Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Sr. He graduated at Princeton University in 1877, at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1881, and studied in Europe at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin from 1881 to 1884. The degree of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) was conferred on him by Lafayette College (1892) and by Yale University (1910). He held numerous positions in the field of religion, including pastor at Oxford, Pennsylvania (1884-1891). He served at Hartford Theological Seminary, Princeton Seminary, and Mount Holyoke College.
Literary works
The contents of his Stone lectures at the Princeton Theological Seminary (1897–98) were published as A Problem in New Testament Criticism (1900).[1] He was chairman of the editorial board of the Standard Bible Dictionary (1909), edited an English translation of Zahn's New Testament Introduction (1909), and prepared a Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, for The Bible for Home and School Series (1914). He contributed theological articles to several encyclopedias,[2] and was a contributing editor–in–charge of New Testament articles for the New International Encyclopedia.
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