Allis, Oswald Thompson 1880-1973

Born, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1880; University of Pennsylvania, 1901; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1902-5, B.D.; GS Green Fellow, Hebrew, 1905-7; Princeton University, 1907, M.A.; University of Berlin, 1907-10, 1913, Ph.D.; ordained, Philadelphia Presbytery, May 31, 1914; instructor, Semitic Philology, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1910-22, assistant professor, 1922-29; professor, Old Testament History and Exegesis, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1929-30, Old Testament 1930-49; died, Wayne, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1973. D.D., Hampden-Sydney College, 1927.

Oswald T. Allis Collection: PCA Historical Center
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Oswald Thompson Allis (1880 – 1973) received his doctorate from the University of Berlin, and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Hampden Sydney College in 1927. He taught in the Department of Semitic Philology at Princeton Theological Seminary (1910-1929). In 1929 Allis, J. Gresham Machen, Robert Dick Wilson and others founded Westminster Theological Seminary. Allis was independently wealthy and it was his property in Philadelphia which initially served as the home of the new seminary. He taught at Westminster for six years, and resigned in 1935 to devote himself to writing and study. Two of his more notable works are Prophecy and the Church (1945) and God Spake By Moses (1951). Allis was a conservative Christian theologian who believed in the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch.

Books

The Five Books Of Moses. The Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co. (1943)
The Old Testament: Its Claims and Its Critics
The Five Books of Moses: A reexamination of the modern theory that the Pentateuch is a late compilation from diverse and conflicting sources by authors and editors whose identity is completely unknown
God Spake by Moses: An Exposition of the Pentateuch (1951)
Prophecy and the Church: An examination of the claim of dispensationalists that the Christian church is a mystery parenthesis which interrupts the fulfilment ... the kingdom prophecies of the Old Testament (1945)
Unity of Isaiah
The New English Bible, the New Testament of 1961: A comparative study

External links

The Mosaic Tradition and the Consequences Of Rejecting it - excerpt from The Five Books of Moses by Allis

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Biblical and Theological Studies (1912) By Princeton Theological Seminary (article by O. T. Allis)
"The Transcendence of Jehovah, God of Israel: Isaiah 44:24-28" (see page 579)

Princeton Theological Seminary Digital Library:

The Princeton Theological Review (1929)
Was Jesus a Modernist? by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1928)
The Alleged Aramaic Origin of the Fourth Gospel by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1928)
An "American" Translation of the Old Testament by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1927)
The Blessing of Abraham by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1926)
"A New Standard Bible Dictionary" by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1926)
Old Testament Emphases and Modern Thought by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1925)
Dr. Moffatt's "New Translation" of the Old Testament by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1925)
A Modernistic View of Jeremiah by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1925)
Old Testament Emphases and Modern Thought by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1925)
Old Testament Emphases and Modern Thought by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1924)
The Fall of Nineveh by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1923)
The Conflict Over the Old Testament by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1923)
Notes and Notices The Reward of the King's Favorite (Esther vi. 8) by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 16:3 (1922)
Inauguration of Professor Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1920)
The Name Joseph by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1919)
The Comment on John IX. 38 in the American Revised Version by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1917)
The Bearing of Archaeology Upon the Higher Criticism of the Psalms by Oswald T. Allis
The Princeton Theological Review (1914)
Assyriological Research During the Past Decade by Oswald Thompson Allis