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GB 891 RAS BHA-RAS BHA/1-RAS BHA/1/3-RAS BHA/1/3/14
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Letter from James Barr to C.F. Beckingham
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- 4 May 1977 (Creation)
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Handwritten, 1 piece.
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(20/3/1924 - 14/10/2006)
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James Barr was born in Glasgow and went to Edinburgh University. He was ordained as a Church of Scotland minister and served for two years in Tiberias, Israel. He published “The Semantics of Biblical Language” in 1961 and became professor of Semitic languages at Manchester in 1965. He moved to Oxford in 1976 and thence to Vanderbilt University, Nashville in 1989, publishing further books on theology.
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Letter from James Barr to C.F. Beckingham in support of the proposal by Barwis-Holliday and that he will be unable to attend the meeting on Thursday 12th..
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- Beckingham, Charles Fraser, 1914-1998 (Subject)
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gb 891 ras bha/1/3/14