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Irving Francis Wood
1861–1934
A teacher, scholar, and widely published writer, he helped bring biblical studies to a broad audience in the early 20th century. His career stretched from classrooms in Ceylon to college posts in the United States, giving his work an international reach.
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The Bible Story
by Newton Marshall Hall, Irving Francis Wood
About the author
Born in Walton, New York, in 1861, Irving Francis Wood was an American biblical scholar and educator. After earning his bachelor's degree from Hamilton College in 1885, he taught at Jaffna College in Ceylon for several years before returning to the United States for further study at Yale.
Wood went on to teach biblical literature at Smith College and became known for writing and editing books that made religious study more approachable for general readers and students. Among the works associated with him are The Spirit of God in Biblical Literature, The Bible as Literature (with Elihu Grant), and volumes in The Bible Story series.
He died in Washington, D.C., in 1934. Remembered as both a professor and an accessible religious writer, he belonged to a generation of scholars who tried to connect academic biblical study with everyday readers.