author
George Foot Moore
1851–1931
A pioneering historian of religion, he helped shape modern study of Judaism and the history of religions in American universities. His work is especially remembered for bringing careful, wide-ranging scholarship to subjects that many readers of his time knew only in fragments.
2 Audiobooks
The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect
by George Foot Moore
The Literature of the Old Testament
by George Foot Moore
About the author
Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1851, he studied at Yale and then at Union Theological Seminary before entering the Presbyterian ministry. After serving as a pastor in Ohio, he moved into academic life and taught Hebrew at Andover Theological Seminary.
In 1902 he joined Harvard, where he later became professor of the history of religion. Scholars remember him for his deep knowledge of the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic literature, and early Judaism, and for helping establish the comparative study of religion as a serious field in the United States.
He also wrote major books, including Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era and History of Religions. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1931, leaving behind a reputation for careful learning and unusually broad command of religious traditions.